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Opening Day: October 2004

Blair Library Inaugural Poem
by Miller Williams

Some of what we came from came for a chance.
Others came indentured, others in chains,
to these potential—then united—states,
except for those who crossed the Bering Straits,
but they were immigrants, too, although they came
before there was a colony to name.

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