tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626927.post2671445366874958219..comments2023-10-28T06:32:41.534-05:00Comments on Foxcroft: Amatuer ArchivistMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00789671321540125917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626927.post-73871140246201407252008-07-23T18:21:00.000-05:002008-07-23T18:21:00.000-05:00As a librarian (and house nut) my jaw just sort of...As a librarian (and house nut) my jaw just sort of dropped when I realized the extent of the archival information that you have about your house. I wouldn't say that it's unheard of, but, based on my experience, I'd say that <I>maybe</I> one house in five hundred, probably more likely 1 in a thousand, of that age, has that level of documentation. It'll be of real use to some researcher, someday. <BR/><BR/>I know you're keeping this blog, but are you also recording similar things now, to continue this grand tradition of recordkeeping?Christopher Busta-Peckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15428701548572867797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626927.post-6282484588942113642008-06-26T20:55:00.000-05:002008-06-26T20:55:00.000-05:00I lived in the basement of that house on golv with...I lived in the basement of that house on golv with mick and helen in 1979. a family of racoons lived on the roof because helen often fed them. The famous Iowa Writer's Workshop was planned in the living room. mick worked for vance bourjally on blue bird farm.timmybansehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00767583590614625103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626927.post-10887134500709546462007-12-11T09:57:00.000-06:002007-12-11T09:57:00.000-06:00I am a sucker too, obviously. I have now read the ...I am a sucker too, obviously. I have now read the letters from Helen's first year teaching in Wisconsin. It seems as though she typed most of hers too. What I'd love to do is find her mothers, and then line them up in order.<BR/><BR/>Aren't you saving and burning all your email onto CD's? I'm sure that historians of the future will be unerasing old hard drives of machines they pull out of landfills. They will be the pottery shards of the future...<BR/><BR/>I do have some archival sleeves for some items, that box is actually one of the newest! Most date to the 20's and 30'sMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00789671321540125917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11626927.post-2759774995890037472007-12-08T12:57:00.000-06:002007-12-08T12:57:00.000-06:00I am just such a sucker for stuff like that. It's ...I am just such a sucker for stuff like that. It's lucky that people realized the value of those letters, etc. and didn't just view them as junk to toss. It's odd to think of all of the history we are losing these days in the age of email, huh? <BR/><BR/>You should get an acid-free box from those letters :-)StuccoHousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10608839109697874015noreply@blogger.com