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Librarian plunges into dunk tank at library event
Vannda Nelson, senior librarian at Esther Bone Memorial Library, invited participants to dunk her as fund raising for a youth summer reading program. After many near misses, library director Bill Ciccola pulled the lever. Nelson then visited Fort Smith Public Library to be honored by a new museum dedicated to U.S. marshals and Bass Reeves, the famed lawman celebrated as the first African American deputy U.S. marshal.
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