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Location - was RAIN 7/17
This is the same problem we have on the list when people don't indicate the location of the job they are advertising. I ran into the same thing in another RAIN posting a week or two ago. The newspaper mentioned "Douglas County" but had no other clue as to place - I searched everything reachable from the link - until I looked at the weather map. It showed the far West, from about Salt Lake or the eastern edge of Utah to the Pacific, and that was about as close as I could come to locating the scene of the story. It could have been anywhere from Mexico to Canada, Utah to the coast.
I guess the USA is rapidly becoming a big piece of cultural wallpaper from coast to coast, Wal-Marts and Rite-Aids, McDonald's and Blockbuster Videos being the repeat pattern. The sense of place is disappearing. I hope that we as archivists can at least preserve the fact that it once wasn't like this. A gloomy thought for Wednesday morning.
Fred Lautzenheiser
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
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