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The Marketeers Club: All I Want For Christmas is a Bookshelf

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Anna Weir is a publicist who thinks books are cool. A few months ago, a co-worker caught in the throes of moving complained to me, “I have all these books.” An avid book reader and hoarder, this normally would not strike me as a problem at all. But for my co-worker, attempting to de-clutter and downsize with the move, this only meant more cardboard boxes. So I took them off his hands. Although he assured me more than once “it’s a lot of books,” it wasn’t until we were piling them into my car that I realized I had inherited … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: All I Want For Christmas is a Bookshelf

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The Marketeers Club: Gilmore Girls Revival

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Tayler Lord is a publicist at UNP and a member of #TeamJess for life.  This Friday, Netflix will release four 90-minute episodes chronicling a year in the life of the Gilmore girls. I, for one, don’t know how to contain my excitement. I am a true lifelong Gilmore Girls fangirl. When I was in sixth grade, I used to come home every day after school, make a bag of popcorn, and call my best friend so we could watch Gilmore Girls at 4:00 p.m. on ABC Family together over the phone. I own every season on DVD and have seen … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Gilmore Girls Revival

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From the Desk of O. Alan Weltzien #FindYourPark

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This year the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary and as the National Park Foundation said, “the Centennial is more than a birthday. We want people everywhere to embrace the opportunities to explore, learn, be inspired or simply have fun in their 407 national parks….” UNP asked its authors to write about their favorite National Park to contribute to the #FindYourPark campaign on social media. The following contribution comes from O. Alan Weltzien, author of Exceptional Mountains: A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes (Nebraska, 2016).   At Tahoma I usually fail when asked about my favorite author or composer or rocker or beer … Continue reading From the Desk of O. Alan Weltzien #FindYourPark