On my to Walla Walla a couple of weeks ago, I stopped to eat lunch in Ritzville, WA, a small town which was once a bustling shipping point on the Northern Pacific railroad. It was such a thriving place that in 1907 the town was able to get a Carnegie Library which is still in operation, one of the few in the world that maintain its original vocation.
Trains hauling wheat and coal still roar through the town, but don't stop anymore. Yet when I was there people were reading during their lunchtime break at the old oak tables. Another example of the importance of libraries and archives. Needless to say I told the librarian about my book Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years!
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