The Elias Calloway Memorial Wing opened to the public on a clear morning in early June, exactly one hundred and fifty years, almost to the week, after a frightened woman named Wren Calloway had first agreed to wear her half-sister's name for a single night she believed would last only forty-eight hours.Wren had spent the better part of a year building it — not alone, though it had often felt that way during the longest stretches of archival work, but with a small dedicated team of historians and a considerably larger circle of family, board members, and network staff who had each, in their own way, helped shape the exhibit into something worthy of the story it finally told in full.The wing occupied the entire ground floor of the network's newest building, positioned deliberately beside the original restoration studio rather than in some more prestigious downtown location several board members had initially proposed, and it told the complete story — Augustus Vale's theft of a patent
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