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AUDIT ROW #258 · THE LOCAL SHELF SWEPT WHOLE · THE 2007 TRIBUNE ACCOUNT
The local shelf gains its best-documented member: a history of the farming district west of town that its own author found by accident, in newspaper microfilm, while researching a cookbook. Marilyn Sherland's The Island is the history of "the Island" — the farming community west of Walkerton, in the ground between the Kankakee River and Pine Creek, settled in 1845–1855 on government deeds. Sherland came on the forgotten district in 1998, poring through newspaper microfilm for a cookbook project, when the "Island Items" columns surfaced; the Walkerton Independent had referred to the Island and its pioneers as early as 1915, and the district had kept its own name in the paper's columns while it faded from the county's memory. The book — featured in the South Bend Tribune in 2007 ("Walkerton 'Island' resurfaces; Book examines farming community of late 1800s and early 1900s") — is a work of recovery from the town paper's own file, and it belongs on this shelf beside, and after, the two titles Sources already carries (Sheneman 2004; Hoganson 2019), which are pointed to and not repeated. The shelf's remaining extent was swept in the same pass: the Walkerton Digital Library, the historical society's online archive at the Heritage House Museum, holds forty-two items as reached, its public face so far the Central Cut Glass collection alone, with the society's wider catalogue — picture books, museum books, and the county's own keeping — still the named settler for any title below web strength. The shelf as it stands in print is therefore: the two banked titles, this one, and the settler named for the rest.
Principal sources: South Bend Tribune, 2007, on Sherland and The Island