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HERO: Silvia Lange of Nicasio wished to give our local librarians some props, especially Laurie Thompson at the Anne T. Kent California Room, Civic Center branch. Thompson recently encouraged and facilitated Lange's annotated bibliography of Angel Island. Now Lange lauds Thompson for keeping Marin history alive, making it "accessible to a broad audience by sleuthing through files, oral histories and non-circulating books"—and by piloting other Marin bibliographies on genealogy, houseboats, railroads and ferries, Mt. Tam railroad and on researching historic houses. The busy librarian has also chaired talks by local writers on Nicasio, Ross, Point Reyes and San Rafael.

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