Prairie Gazette The Official Publication of the Lakewood Historical Society

Better known as the “Hill Ward”, the building housed male patients who tended the hospital’s extensive farm as part of their occupational therapy. A century earlier, much of the land in the area had been used as the headquarters for the Hudson Bay Company’s Puget Sound Agricultural operation, and then the US Army purchased the land. In 1871 it became the setting for the asylum. One story, telling about the WSH farm and its role in saving the state’s dairy herds, is available at the Suttler’s Store at Historic Fort Steilacoom, where its four restored buildings provide a glimpse back in time to the 1850s when the U.S. Army set up its operations in this area. Over time the hilltop building was vandalized, and graffiti artists added their neon-colored creative touches (left) to the ward’s crumbling walls. After Hill Ward closed in the mid-1960s, for the next decade the hilltop location was used as a Search and Rescue training site. More than 1,500 responders trained there to assist in emergencies such as the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 9/11 attack on the East Coast. See HILL WARD, pg 7

Come to the Aid of YOUR Society...... 6 President’s Message, Lake City School...... 2 The Other Museum at WSH; Frances Farmer...... 8 Aladdin’s Cave on Steilacoom Blvd...... 3 Our Donors and Sponsors...... 10 Charles V. Faust, One-time NY Giant...... 4 Financial Statement...... 11 Who Was Captain Ainsworth?...... 5 Winter 2016 Programs & Events...... 12 1 I hope all of you found time to enjoy your family and friends over the holidays. In reflecting on last year’s accomplishments, I appreciate the progress we have made and I’m grateful for your continued support.

[email protected] There is one major concern facing the Society this year. There are not enough volunteers to accomplish the goals and activities we President have already started, much less start new ones. The need is not Becky Huber • 253-582-8682 just leadership on the Board, but every aspect—museum docents Vice President and committee members. There are many opportunities and a Sue Scott • 253-588-6354 place for anyone who loves our local history and wants to save it. A list of the specific needs is on page 6. Secretary Vacant Not all of the projects and tasks can be handled by volunteers, so Treasurer the Board will be exploring hiring a part time Museum Director who Gary Fowler • 253-584-3958 will assist in the management of the collections and exhibits. We have set aside money in our budget to do this. Directors Kristin Davis In February, the City of Lakewood will be celebrating its 20th birthday. We will be coordinating special activities with the City that Kris Kauffman will include the reinstallation of the Cityhood exhibit and a special Dick Meier program at City Hall. Details are listed on page 12. Glen Spieth In October, we are celebrating another occasion—the Museum’s Director Emeriti 10th Anniversary. After inventorying all of the exhibits we have Cyrus Happy III installed, the visitors we’ve had, and the events we have hosted, LTG Bill Harrison it is amazing to realize that it happened with an all-volunteer Museum Consultants organization with the assistance of several museum consultants. A Mary Bowlby special Open House will be held for the occasion. Meg Justus In November, I will have served 10 years as President of the Chuck Mathias Society. I have come to realize it is time for someone else to “carry the water”. Fortunately, we have another experienced Board member who more than meets the qualifications—Sue Scott, who has served as Secretary for the last eight years. I will be mentoring PRAIRIE GAZETTE her as Vice President this year in preparation for Sue moving up to Prairie Gazette is the official publication the Presidency in November 2016. of the Lakewood Historical Society. The newsletter is published four times a year. Distribution is directly to members and available at the Lakewood History Museum, 6211 Mt Tacoma Drive SW, Lakewood, WA 98499 • 253-682-3480 The staff of Prairie Gazette actively encourages input from the Society’s members as well as the general public regarding story ideas of any other aspects of this newsletter, and the Lakewood Historical Society. Content of this publication is copyright protected by the Society and/or the authors and artists. MEETINGS The Lakewood Historical Society formed in 1998 to preserve and share Lakewood’s rich history through programs, displays and Designed in 1914 by Tacoma architect and Lake City resident publications. The Society offers frequent programs on topics of historical interest. Ambrose Russell. Russell designed the Perkins Building, the Most programs are free and open to the Tacoma Armory, the State Governor’s Mansion, public. Visit us on Facebook or our website Sunrise Lodge at Mount Rainier, and many others. for information on events and activities: www.LakewoodHistorical.org Unlike his contemporary E. J. Bresemann, whose works included 24 schools, Russell designed only one—now empty. It is hoped 2 this historic structure can be preserved for some good use. By Nancy Covert The Ankh, an Egyptian symbol for life, is Several photos show WASPs, (Women’s prominently displayed in the front yard at Air Service Pilots), a photo of the Enola 5928 Steilacoom Boulevard, S. W. It Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic has been Lakewood Historical Society bomb on Hiroshima, and there’s also Board Director Glen Spieth’s logo for a list of D-Day landing orders. Glen more than 30 years. It barely hints also has a gallery of autographed at the veritable Aladdin’s Cave of photos of renowned pilots, beginning artifacts that are in the lower level of with Charles Lindbergh. his home. There’s a collection of historic deeds Owned and operated by Spieth since 1977, this unusual museum is packed and documents. Display cases are filled with artifacts and antiquities with canteens, swords, medals, hats, dating from the days of Babylon helmets, clocks—including an and Egypt, Rome and Greece, ornate ormolu version—and on through the mid-20th century. and on. When you stop to visit—between 11 am-5 There are bits of aviation materiel—radios, pm on Saturdays only (or by appointment)—be stabilizers, bombing sights, to name a few— prepared to spend several hours—there’s so much to see. even cloth from the Wright Brothers’ Ohio airplane assembly plant. Curator Spieth’s a man with an entrenched interest in history—specifically WW II history. Some of this memorabilia is for sale, some just As he escorts visitors around the nooks and to enjoy, Spieth says. crannies of his basement museum he muses, There are several paintings of the Swamp wondering why it seems that people only get Ghost, and he’s glad to tell about his role in interested in history when they’re older. helping salvage that famous B-17 that was His fascination with the subject began because downed in New Guinea. his father was a bomber pilot before WWII, and Glen and his parents, like many other military Glen’s stories about these artifacts are families, lived around the world, in places such perhaps even more intriguing than the items as Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Germany, Morocco, as themselves. He’s an author of numerous well as around the United States. historical articles, lecturer, a former advisor for ’s Museum of Flight—don’t miss the Step inside this veritable cave of wonders and photo over there of a plane purchased with start looking. On the left there’s a collection of nickels and dimes from Seattle children—a plane cuneiform tablets, an assortment of Egyptian named jewelry and figures, Roman coins, and more. But Chief Seattle. there’s much more. Further along the aisle are Outside there’s more to see in the backyard, uniforms—Confederate and Union Civil War-era uniforms—and could those really be a pair of General Custer’s boots sitting on top of a box? At the LHS Annual There are plaster castings taken of Abraham Meeting on Nov. 24, Lincoln’s face from 1861, and another cast Glen was given the made a few months before his assassination. Society’s “Historian There’s Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “Rough of the Year” award, Rider” hat. Glen’s exhibits include military school presented to him uniforms, German officer uniforms, and Japanese here by Treasurer pilots’ uniforms. Tucked back in the corner is a Gary Fowler. photo (reproduction) of Amelia Earhart. Glen Congratulations, has two theories about what happened to the Glen! famous aviatrix, which he’ll be happy to share. See ALADDIN’S CAVE, pg 5 3 were based season, but McGraw wouldn’t in New change his mind. York from 1883-1957 In the end, Faust, only 35, when they was diagnosed with dementia, became succumbed to tuberculosis, and died on June 18, 1915 By Nancy Covert the at Western State Hospital, Just inside the entry to the Giants). where he’s buried. His part in Western State Hospital Cemet- McGraw the Giant’s history remained ery in Fort Steilacoom Park gave Faust buried as well, until 2000 when stands a covered kiosk filled a try-out. former Giant centerfielder Fred with information about the It soon Snodgrass told the story “In cemetery’s restoration project became the Glory of Their Times” to under “Grave Concerns.” About apparent that Faust was def- sportswriter Lawrence Ritter. 3,000 patients are buried there. initely not a ballplayer, but Gabreil Schechter picked This past October on Make a McGraw played a joke on up the tale in his own book, the earnest young man and Difference Day 2015, Laurel concluding: “Faust has become had him run the bases. Faust Lemke, Grave Concerns a cult figure among baseball president, said 30 more arrived at home plate dusty and aficionados, deservedly so, gravesites were marked—the disheveled, his clothes ripped considering the incredible organization’s project is ongoing. to shreds. Final score that day performance of the Giants was 9-0 for the Giants. Because under his influence.” While all the stories about the of Charlie’s “presence” and people buried here may never base-running skills, the Giants Thanks to Bart Ripp and Gabriel fully be known, at least one won the next two games as well. Schechter, “The Rube Who man’s story—Patient #1395— Saved McGraw’s Giants,” has been researched. That When it came time to commit Los Gatos, CA, Charles April story is displayed on the kiosk. to the earnest young man, Publications, 2000. Former News Tribune writer McGraw gave Charlie the run- around. Then, as the team Bart Ripp wrote the story about The Grave Concerns Association was setting out on its return #1395, Charles V. Faust. is a volunteer organization dedicat- trip from St. Louis to New ed to the restoration of the historic Faust was born on Oct. 8, 1880 York, Charlie was left behind Western State Hospital Cemetery in Marion, KS. The eldest of when the train pulled out of located on the grounds of Fort six children born to German the station. Somehow, though, Steilacoom Park. The organization immigrants John and Eva when the Giants arrived at the grew from John Lucas’s desire Faust, Charles was said to be Polo Grounds, Charlie was to rededicate the prairie cemetery slow-witted. Undoubtedly that there, determined to achieve where more than 3,000 former was a disappointment to his the fame the fortune teller had patients are buried, but few markers father, John, who’d hoped his predicted—he had a destiny were visible in 2000. son would one day take over to pitch the Giants to their the farm’s operation. But Charlie championship! Grave Concerns is a 501C3 was a child of the bleak plains organization, registered as country, and, until the summer Throughout the season, a nonprofit in the State of of 1911, just plodded his way however, McGraw kept Faust Washington, which raises funds along. A trip to the county fair out of the games even though to replace deteriorating numbered changed his life, after he met a Faust doggedly stayed around. markers with names, etched in fortuneteller. He was good for morale, granite. It organizes installation and the fans loved him. After events, celebrations, fundraiser Later that summer the lanky 6 the Giants won the pennant, projects, and provides educational ft.-2 in., 180 lb. 30-year-old told McGraw relented, seeing no opportunities and outreach. New York Giant owner John reason to deny Faust his dream. It also teams with community McGraw that a fortuneteller organizations and businesses to had predicted that Charlie Finally Charlie pitched in the final inning of the World Series. complete its mission: to restore and would pitch the Giants to the enhance the patient cemetery. Championship. (The Giants The Giants lost. Faust hoped to return the next 4 By Nancy Covert Ainsworth later sold the resort to H. E. Huntington. In mid-October 2015, Lakewood Historical Society members had Ainsworth’s plans were al- a rare opportunity to visit the ways wisely formulated and Boatman-Ainsworth House, carefully executed, and he off 112th Street in Lakewood, displayed a notable mastery across from Clover Park High of detail that enabled him to School. During that “Open use each point of the busi- House” they learned about early ness to its best advantage. area Pioneer Willis Boatman and his wife, Mary Ann. (For Captain Ainsworth was their story, see the Fall 2015 married three times: his issue of The Prairie Gazette.) first wife died six months after their marriage. His

John Commingers Ainsworth second wife was Jane (June 6, 1822 - December 30, White, a daughter of 1893) was a later owner of the Judge S. S. White, a house. Who was he, and what pioneer of 1845 who were his contributions to north- settled in City. To west history? this marriage was born Captain Ainsworth was a large investor in George J. Ainsworth. The Tacoma real estate and was prominently identi- second Mrs. Ainsworth died in 1863. fied with the construction of the Northern Pacific The Captain was then married in San Francisco Railroad Company between the Columbia River to Miss Fanny Babbitt, a daughter of General and Puget Sound. Edwin Babbitt of the United States Army. The Following his relocation to California in 1880, he couple had six more children: J. C. Ainsworth, was largely interested in local banking as well as of Portland; H. B. Ainsworth, of , in the initiation and promotion of other business California; Laura Ainsworth, the wife of John enterprises in that state. He financed Redondo S. Baker of Tacoma; Daisy Ainsworth, wife of Beach, making it what it is today: one of the finest Percy T. Morgan of San Francisco, Maud Ain- seaside resorts on the Pacific coast. Expending sworth of Portland; and Belle Ainsworth, wife of nearly three million dollars in this undertaking, Ralph Jenkins of Portland. ALADDIN’S CAVE from page 3 The Boatman-Ainsworth House, oldest home in Lakewood. where Glen has a pair of planes under tarps awaiting restoration. Given this area’s early history— beginning in 1849 at Fort Steilacoom up to the present— spending time at Spieth’s Museum Antiques and Aviation Museum is well worth the time invested. You never know what you’ll learn that you may not have known before. If you plan to check out the treasures in this “Cave”, phone Spieth at (253) 584-3930 or visit his website at http://www. museumantiques.net 5 As the Society continues to grow its membership, expand its impact on the community, improve the museum operation and accomplish our fund raising goals we must have a cadre of loyal volunteers to fill various roles and perform certain tasks. Up until now we have over-utilized the Board members to fill the committees, often times not meeting our objectives. We now reach out to our members and community to meet these needs. These are the current needs: 1. Society Board. Time commitment: 2 year term, depending on committee assignment, 10-15 hours/month. This is the most urgent need! We currently have a vacancy for Secretary (to replace Sue) and Treasurer (to mentor with Gary this year) and 3 directors. Without strong leadership the organization cannot function well. People with previous non-profit board or job-related leadership experience or who want a challenge. Each Director chairs a committee that reports back to the Board for approval of proposals. Will be involved in making future critical decisions to include: Hiring a Museum Director and potentially moving to a larger museum space. 2. Museum Docent. Time commitment: 4 hour shift per month. It only takes someone who enjoys meeting new people. Be assured, we don’t expect you to know all the history of Lakewood or to be an accomplished speaker. You’ll gain the knowledge and confidence as you work. You will receive a general orientation from one of our current docents. More specialized training will be offered based on your interest. 3. Society Committees. Time commitment: 6-8 hours/month. Most committees meet monthly. More details about committee responsibilities available to interested parties upon request. a. Program Committee: We need at least 4 members. After an initial brain-storming session, you will be assisting in planning and coordinating the programs and activities three to six months in advance. You will work closely with the Marketing Committee. b. Membership Committee: We need at least 4 members. Responsible for mailing renewal notices; expanding and maintaining database; developing and implementing membership campaign to solicit new members. c. Collections Committee: We need at least 3 new members. Primary responsibility is the management of the artifacts and donations made to the Museum that may eventually become part of an exhibit or display. Need at least two members who use the museum software, Past Perfect. Under the supervision of the Museum Consultant. d. Marketing Committee: We need at least 3 new members. Responsible for planning and implementing the marketing plan that promotes the programs, events and activities of the Society and Museum. Work closely with the Marketing Specialist in maintaining the website, Facebook page, and publication of the quarterly newsletter. e. Budget and Finance Committee: Need 3 new members. Oversees the budget and financial obligations of Society. Coordinates Annual Fund Campaign and grant applications. f. Committee for Special Fund Raising Event: Need at least 4-6 members. Additional volunteers during the last 3 months prior to an event. Plans and coordinates an annual fund raising event that provides additional funds to meet financial obligations.

This is YOUR Society and we need your active participation. When the work is shared it makes the jobs get done more quickly and easily. And besides—you’ll have fun doing it! So please contact me, Becky Huber, at 253-582-8682 or e-mail: [email protected]. I would be happy to discuss with you in more detail if you have any questions about any of the jobs listed. I welcome your suggestions and your commitment to dedicate whatever time your “crazy life” permits. Thank you for your support. 6 HILL WARD from page 1 As part of the City of Lakewood’s park renovations in the early 21st century, an asphalt pathway, leading to the one-time Hill Ward, now gently

chimney is located at the base Looking down from this vantage of the trail. spot one can view the hospital, remnants of the 1849-68 fort, Looking down from the hilltop, the Rotary “castle,” picnic wintry sunlight reflects through grounds, the off-leash dog park, the trees, off the surface of miles of looping walking paths, glacier-carved Waughop Lake. and “Grave Concern’s” hospital patient cemetery. On a calm, late autumn afternoon, with enthusiastic sounds curves up the hillside from the of several soccer parking lot below. games rising from Between 2007-09 the City of the restored green Lakewood and the State of fields below, a walk Washington partnered to create to this memorial site, a community memorial that paid completed in 2009, is tribute to the people who lived an ideal spot to reflect and worked here. about the ward’s role The small lake was named in South Sound history and to A remnant from Hilltop Ward’s for an early hospital super- speculate about what other intendent. uses this regional park will fill in Across the the future. spacious ward site, concrete slabs are placed, inscribed with details about historic events that occurred in the region. They serve as reminders about the importance of this area. Through the trees—Waughop Lake

7 By Nancy Covert Many residents know the area between Fort Steilacoom Park and Western State Hospital Among the dozens of is especially historic. Land that once was part histories about area of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company residents, such as eventually was sold to the U.S. Government. Joseph Heath, who served as the Hudson In 1849, Fort Steilacoom was established Bay Company’s agent at and, in 1871, a was built its agricultural operation on the property. on what eventually At the start of the 21st century, hospital staff, became Western State patients and citizens organized a group Psychiatric Hospital, is called the Grave Concerns Association the tabloid-type story of (GCA). Plans were discussed about ways Frances Farmer. to restore the hospital cemetery and to While the Internet has honor deceased patients. Patient advocates, many Frances Farmer- genealogical societies, gardening groups, related sites, the Frances Farmer. From and cemetery restoration experts offered State’s HistoryLink. West Seattle High School advice and counsel. Work parties were org site contains a 1931 yearbook. organized. Memorials were held to honor the comprehensive story dead and reveal the names of those lost to about this Seattle-born woman, who, at one history. time, was hospitalized at Western State and who may (or may not) have been the subject of The February 28, 2001 earthquake damaged a . buildings, and hundreds of patients were moved to other wards. During demolition old The hospital contains a museum in which there artifacts had to be moved to an abandoned is a section of a display dedicated to this one- ward. This afforded an opportunity to time Hollywood star whose story, according to volunteers to organize those artifacts into an the History Link article, goes like this: historical museum that would complement An idealistic young actress challenges the work done by the GCA. the hypocrisy of her world and becomes Since 2004, the WSH historical museum has the victim of a spiteful mother, a vengeful been toured by hundreds of visitors, including Hollywood, and a cabal of callous and students, elected officials, the public, and arrogant psychiatrists. Together they force hospital patients and staff. her into a state mental hospital, where she is brutalized by electric shock and other The museum, located in the middle of barbaric treatments; raped by orderlies, the active treatment area, is only open fellow inmates, and soldiers from a nearby by reservation. Exhibits consist mainly of Army base; and eventually lobotomized. historical photos, although there is one Her rebellious spirit finally shattered, she “room” that represents one of the hospital’s leaves the institution an atomized half- most renowned patients—Actress Frances woman, only a shadow of the vibrant artist Farmer. “The museum is designed primarily she had once been. to acquaint future psychiatric workers with Unfortunately, all too often stories like these the hospital’s history. Researchers use about entertainers such as Farmer seem to be the State Archives in Olympia for specific part and parcel of a movie career—just take a materials,” Museum Director Kathleen look at the grocery-store checkout counters, Benoun said. with scandalous headlines emblazoned across Because the hospital museum displays the latest tabloid pages—designed to lure the many historic photographs, anyone who has customer into making a last-minute purchase in such photos—showing the farm’s operation, the attempt to gain some bit of “knowledge”— for example—should contact Christy mostly untrue—about the subject, whether it’s Forsyth at (253) 756-2896, or Benoun, at Hillary Clinton, Camilla—that “wicked” woman (253) 756-2593 who allegedly destroyed the marriage of Prince CONTINUED next page 8 CONTINUED from previous page on her autobiography. The 15 graduate nurses were on book was not yet completed the staff, assisted by 23 student Charles and Princess Diana, when she died of esophageal nurses. By National Committee or some other target of cancer on August 1, 1970, for Mental Hygiene standards, a unscrupulous writers who six weeks before her 57th hospital with that many patients pander to some people’s taste birthday, leaving unanswered should have had 107 graduate for scandal. many questions about the sad trajectory of her life. nurses. There were only about Whatever the true story, it has half the recommended number been eclipsed by the mythology. of orderlies on the payroll, and With the medical records closed 14 doctors of the minimum of and all the principal players 20 needed. long dead, little can be said with certainty about what really Many patients were housed in happened to Frances Farmer. decrepit, turn-of-the-century Still, two things seem clear: the buildings, similar to one that behavior that landed her in an had been destroyed by fire insane asylum half a century (killing two patients) in 1947. ago would scarcely raise an After the fire, a makeshift ward eyebrow today; and yet, had she not been institutionalized, had been established in an she might well have been long unheated breezeway originally forgotten. Instead, decades used as an exercise court. The after her death, the self- area had been enclosed with described “Bad Girl of West canvas, but it provided little Seattle High” has taken on a protection against wind, rain, larger-than-life role as the star and cold. The P-I found that it of a cautionary fable. was still being used as a ward She was drinking heavily two years later. and becoming increasingly Because of staff shortages, dependent on amphetamines. patients were being put to bed Worried constantly about her weight, Farmer began using around 4 p.m. and kept there 12 amphetamines (marketed hours. Inadequate salaries and as Benzedrine) soon after poor living quarters complicated she arrived in Hollywood. the problem of getting efficient At the time, the drug was help. Live-in ward attendants widely available and often were housed in a basement with recommended by doctors as an sagging floors and crumbling ce- appetite suppressant. Not until ment walls. Dr. William N. Keller, the 1970s was it discovered hospital superintendent, said that amphetamines are highly the hospital needed about $8 addictive, have unpredictable million to improve the facilities side effects, and—taken in 1938. One of Hollywood’s most and expand the staff, a figure far sufficient quantities—can promising young starlets. produce symptoms similar to greater than what the Legisla- those of . ture was willing to provide. Whether she was mentally ill or simply suffering the effects By any measure, Western of alcohol and drug abuse may State Hospital during Farmer’s never be known. residency in the 1940s was After she lost her job in tele- a dismal place. More than vision, Farmer went into two 2,700 patients—500 more than business ventures with a the official capacity—were friend, but both failed. She crammed into its antiquated —Dr. William N. Keller, was arrested once more for wards. In a 1949 investigative Seattle Post-Intelligencer, drunk driving and had her February 18, 1949). license suspended for a year. series, the Seattle Post- Intelligencer reported that only In 1968, she resumed work 9 LAKEWOOD HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUM 2015 Sponsors - Business Members and Donors The Museum Annual Fund Drive and special fund raising City of Lakewood Lodging Tax Funds help support and efforts generated $29,017 during 2015 in grants, business promote Lakewood History Society & Museum operations, sponsorships and contributions from 185 individuals and educational programs, events, historical markers, commu- families and 52 local business Sponsors nity outreach programs, and Museum displays/exhibits. Sponsors, Business Members and Sally Atwood Jonathan and Janis Hawkes Associate Members The Baarsma Family Dr. John G. 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Tues, January 5th, 10 am-12 noon- Cake Day, at Lakewood Senior Activity Center, 9112 Lakewood Dr SW. Stop by the Society’s table at the Center’s monthly event. Learn more about upcoming programs and events. Sat, Jan 16th, 10 am-noon- Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, McGavick Conference Center, Clover Park Technical College, 4500 Steilacoom Blvd SW, Lakewood. Attend the 13th annual celebration highlighting our City’s diversity. Key Note Speaker: Dr. Lonnie Howard, President of CPTC. Tues, February 23rd, 7 pm- How Our City Came to Be, City of Lakewood City Hall, Council Chambers, 6000 Main St SW, in Lakewood Towne Center. In celebration of the City’s 20th Birthday, we look back at the incorporation process and the accomplishments made in the last 20 years. Sat, February 27th, 1 pm – Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting of Cityhood Exhibit, Lakewood History Museum, 6211 Mt Tacoma Dr SW. Exhibit of Cityhood with updates made in the last 20 years. Tues, March 22nd, 7 pm- Stealing Puget Sound,1832-1869, St Mary’s Episcopal Church, 10630 Gravelly Lake Dr SW. Noted educator, author and historian, Dr. Jerry Ramsey, will talk about his latest book, the subject of which is the occupation of Puget Sound by the British. The book will be available for sale with a book signing.

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