An EXCELLENT article headed as "Generation on the shelves" written by staff writer, Diane Wright appeared in the Seattle TIMES newspaper - 3 pages in the North County insert that captures many reader's interests because it captures the goings on of many interesting places such as our Snohomish County. Such was the case with Diane Wright's article about one Darilee Bednar, at the helm of 3rd St. Book Exchange, located at 1615 Third St, Marysville, WA. for Darilee has accumulated 5700 high school, college and even military yearbooks/annuals providing a source for great information, pictures, momentoes of those schooldays gone by, but a great source for history, research, etc. just the kind of material that researchers whether in genealogy or otherwise can avail themselves. Darilee amassed these gems from far the past (even the mid 1800s!) for "United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Canada, Panama and other countries." There is a color PIX of Darilee standing among her shelves of the 5700 books she maintains. You need to read the news article by Diane Wright to really appreciate the scope that Darilee's endeavor has produced. She has put those yearbooks to good use as she has and is developing a repository for information on Vietnam Veterans with as complete information as she can record for her website developed for this phase of research being made available to the genealogists, et al, to access. It is a source for adoption cases for instance. In addition, Darilee has a genealogical library up in the loft where she does much of her research and recordings. I have seen at least 3 computers, some of which she has dedicated to her projects that she is developing and making available to other genealogists, and research persons. I have kidded DariLee, I call her, about her Din of Iniquity -The Third Street Books just East a block of two on the same side of the street as the famed Dutch Bakery that everyone loves in Marysville. Everyone knows the Bakery that is a very popular spot - you take a number for service, it is so popular. DariLee's place is just E of that landmark. Each Thursday, DariLee shows up at Baxter Sr. Ctr. where she teaches a no-fee genealogy class - an informal group of persons who gather, share lies, share genealogy, laugh a lot, and frequent pot lucks, and field trips to such places as our county court house, Seattle Library, Tacoma Library, and of course Everett Library (Northwest Room !), the various Archives, National, State, you name it - this Gen Group is a going concern. Much of the research that is done by the group is shared by frequent Show and Tell type items. Just adjacent to the room this group meets in are two computer rooms - former Jail Cells when the Baxter Sr Ctr had been the former Marysville City Hall (complete with jail cells) located at the park where the Marysville Water Tower is the landmark locater. DariLee calls her project mentioned above Faces From the Wall - photos from the yearbooks, where possible to match the names of the Vietname Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. -many from WA State, and Snohomish Co. DariLee appears to be quite the maverick, but beneath it all is truly a heart of gold as is indicated by this article and if you know her for a period of time as have many of us. Do find a copy of the November 22, 2003 Times with the North County insert and read this article in its entirety to appreciate what is being done at the Din of Iniquity called Third Street Book Exchange. Thanks to writer, Diane Wright, we learn to appreciate what is being done by genealogists to further enhance our knowledge and accessibility of research via the time and effort of those to truly appreciate. Diane Wright may be contacted at 425-745-7815 or dwright@seattletimes.com and let her know we'd love to see more great articles related to genealogy. Diane did a great deal of research and times toward development of this article for which we are all very thankful. Carroll in Snohomish * * * 30 * * *