By Heather Lowcock, Project Archivist, NHPRC Grant – News Tribune Collection There were blackbirds surrounding me. Okay, well, not literally. I was in the basement of the Tacoma Public Library, sorting thousands of envelopes, digitizing photographs, and importing metadata, but they were there, circling my brain--blackbirds--more specifically, a poem about blackbirds. It is, perhaps, unsurprising…