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Belonging to history: Local librarian arranges new home for family’s native heirlooms

This headdress belonging to Robert Hall was donated by Woodstock librarian Maartha Hansen to the Menominee Tribal Historic Preservation over Memorial Day weekend. (Independent photo by Tricia Carzoli)

For Martha Hansen, assistant director of the Woodstock Public Library, collecting history – both in physical form and in oral form – has been a generations-long passion. Throughout much of […]

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