We discovered early on in our research that the task of finding information on Hoosac Tunnel would not be easy.
Our first roadblock was trying to find information. We found a singular book, Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel by Cliff Schexnayder, that provided a lot of the ins and outs of the tunnel ranging from funding, important figures, and deaths. The problem? It seemed to be our only source of information, and thought it was vast, we felt we needed more.
After sometime, we decided to ask just once more if they had anything else on the tunnel. We were surprised to find that the reason we were initially given just one book was because they had “too much” information to give us.
We were directed to an online database of everything that was in the public library’s vault (archive).
Our new problem was searching through all of our new material. What should we use? What was important to use? What was our focus?
–Cassie