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WILMINGTON – In Beverly Tetterton’s early days at the helm of the library’s Local History Room, she got a piece of memorable advice from a stalwart in the field – Leora Hiatt Billie McEachern.
“She came down to the library one day and told me that if I was going to be the local history librarian, I needed to know some local history,” Tetterton said.
Dry as it might sound, this was an invitation to the young librarian to learn from and alongside of McEachern’s hard-fought years of research and work that produced massively influential works but not always the same amount of respect. ....

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