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Old 03-10-2014, 10:38 PM
pariah1107
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I plan on seeing it March 20.

I can tell you the curator, Chieko Phillips, did a remarkable job of putting together a thorough, coherent timeline with very little, if not disparate information. Among the never seen before Pre-integration images are those of local legends such as Jimmy Claxton, and the 1944 Hanford Eagles.

The 1944 Hanford Eagles team, won the Tri-Cities Championship, but no information came from the plant. The only paper to report on the team, the Sentinel, is the property of the DuPont Chemical Company. Because of the secrecy of the Hanford Nuclear Facility the newspaper actually reads above the headline: "Anyone taking this press from the facility will be prosecuted".

Author of Sunday Afternoons at Garfield Park, Lyle Wilson, did much of the research on that team. I contributed to the central Washington, Roslyn and Franklin, African American strikebreakers 1888-1891 and Jimmy Claxton history.

I am very much looking forward to this visit as I don't get a chance to get to the west side very often.
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