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• Gail de Vos's Tales, Rumors, and Gossip
• The History of NECCO Wafers (NECCO website)
• A Brief History of Necco: America's Original Candy Company, Eater / Vox Media 
• The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets
• Customer Outrage Forces Necco To Put Artificial Ingredients Back Into Wafers, The Salt, NPR
• 21 Things You Didn’t Know About NECCO Wafers, Buzzfeed
• Clark, Anthony E. PhD, "From China to Heaven: Remembering Fr. Charles McCarthy, SJ, an American Jesuit in China During an Era of Transition" Whitworth University (2012). History Faculty Scholarship. Paper 38. 
• Amazon customer's one-star review, "Expiration was out of date", January 3, 2014
• candideanne's five-star review, "Oh MY!", February 14, 2014
• John Updike's "Ex-Basketball Player" on Poetry Foundation
• Patricia Reilly Giff's Lily's Crossing

• Let's Talk Science at CBU
• Words About Stuff podcast
• Contains a selection from "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" by The Jingle Punks Hipster Orchestra