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HANNA: I came to the United
States. My English was poor so

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I went to the library and 
took all the free classes, 

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and rewrite my resume 
a thousand times. 

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And I found a job, 
met wonderful friends.

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HAN-YU: Tell us some of the 
things you enjoy the most 

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about the Family Garden. 
EVERETT: Well the thing I 

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like to do is eat the stuff 
we grew. Say it's a tomato—

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we might just pop them
in our mouths. 

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HAN-YU: Tell me about how to 
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EVERETT: When you put it 
underground, eventually the

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eye will start growing. When 
you dig it up, you find a

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couple brightly colored 
potatoes.

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ANN CLARE: Libraries are
magical to me. As a child, I 

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was included in programs even 
when I could not communicate.

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I participated in summer 
reading programs. I went to

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movies even without closed 
captions. And I felt so happy

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there. The work I do in the 
library, I'm constantly

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trying to stretch the 
boundaries and doing things I

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never imagined I would be 
capable of doing. 

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ARLETTA: One day I was 
looking for a question for a

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customer in the Local and 
State History Room. I ran 

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across this picture. It was 
Baptist Union. And it talked

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about four generations being 
at that church. And it 

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happened to be my aunt, my 
grandmother, my great-

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grandmother, and my aunt's 
child. And I thought that was

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the greatest find—
GINNY: That was a blessing.

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ARLETTA: —in a room that I 
worked in for 20 years.

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JERRY: You spend your adult 
life trying to hide the fact 

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that you are functional 
illiterate, looked at as

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being stupid or dumb. But 
when you come to the literacy

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program, you start to learn 
to read and spell. That is a

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completely life-changing 
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CHIP: I just adore coming 
here with you and one of the

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things I love to see when I 
walk in is that big, huge 

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sculpture. 
DONOVAN: Yeah, the mastodon 

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sculpture. I usually go under 
it. Sometimes I accidentally

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bonk my head on it. 
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THOMAS: At Perryville 
Library, I received my first

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email address. 
KATHY: It's empowering!

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THOMAS: Oh my goodness. I 
started volunteering, and I 

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really really enjoy
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KATHY: I just know that you'd
make it a good day for 

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everybody who comes 
in that library. 

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NIKKI: What drives you to 
work tirelessly on behalf of 

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the Chicago Japanese American 
Historical Society? 

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JEAN: When Japan bombed Pearl 
Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt

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signed an executive order to 
exclude all the Japanese off

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the west coast. I remember my 
first day at relocation camp,

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being terrified. After 9/11, 
you had this talk of rounding 

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up all the Muslim Americans. 
And I think it's important to

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learn about history, so it 
will not be repeated.

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AARON: The first museum I 
ever visited was the 

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Anchorage Museum. As a small 
child, I remember the 

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dioramas. Putting Alaska 
Natives behind glass and

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confining them to the past 
becomes highly problematic.

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We are the indigenous tribe 
of Anchorage. My hope is

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continuing to get people to 
care about this place.

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GASPAR: Before, it was a 
museum for the elite and it

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was not for the community. 
JESUS: Our art is supposed to

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be in these spaces and these 
museums. Our people need to 

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be represented and you 
created a piece that they

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feel proud of.
GASPAR: That's the reason I 

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started painting my students 
is because they had a lot to

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say with their eyes, their 
hardships. And being

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exhibited in the museums 
brought it out to the people

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from the community.

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PHYLLIS P: You know, Phyllis, 
when you have a book, you 

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always have a friend. 
PHYLLIS R: It also can bring 

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you friends if libraries have 
places where people want to 

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be and are open to talking to 
people.

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PHYLLIS P: The library has 
really become a gem.

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