Some of you may remember the Puget Papers, a serial we published on a weekly basis on our Tumblr. In the fall semester, our chosen theme was “the ‘University’ in University Place,” which documented our school’s adventures from 1893-1903 while planning to create a permanent campus before we moved to our current location in 1923 (if you haven’t read it, you should).
This semester, we have an entirely new series that’s built a bit differently. This one is called “The One Who Knows,” as you may have guessed, and it sits more in the speculative fiction genre than nonfiction. Here’s our official introduction:
“While working in the Archives & Special Collections we often come across odd and just plain strange things. This semester the Puget Papers will feature a story that appeared in the student newspaper, the Trail, detailing the experience of a Puget Sound student who fell asleep in 1928 and woke up on campus in 2021.”
We’re also hoping to accept submissions from our readers for what kind of campus this student might be seeing. We’ll take photographs, stories, videos, predictions, links, questions, anything you can come up with; so make sure you read the story (which will post every Wednesday at 11 a.m. for twelve weeks) and either submit your ideas to our Tumblr’s submission box or tag us in a post using #towk (The One Who Knows). We look forward to seeing your interpretations of the story!
The Archives & Special Collections is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
By Morgan Ford