Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable.
“A library is in a lot of ways a kind of civic symbol, a demonstration of a community’s commitment to itself,” said Cole Leinbach, a librarian in Tieton, Wash. “So what does it mean if that goes away?”
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