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>  -----Original Message-----
> From:         Martin Hauserman
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 4:10 PM
> To:   'peter.kurilecz@WOODSIDESUMMITGROUP.COM'
> Subject:
>
> Perceptions about  Archives:--have been in the field  25 years, 15 with
> same employer (Cleveland City Council); my parents knew about archives but
> never encouraged me outright; have been interested in history since
> kindergarten but never caught on until graduate school where the stuff and
> how the stuff was stored and preserved for others to see; my neighbors now
> know what an archives is about, especially since I was featured in a
> Sunday magazine layout, "The Man Who Saved Cleveland History. "  Seen some
> good press about archives and some almost laughable.  However, I like so
> many who tend to last in this field, have helped and been helped by many.
> The stranger who walks into my office for the history of Eddy Road;  The
> Influenza of 1918, The Bridge Tavern, the Collinwood, Fairfax, or  West
> Cleveland areas of Cleveland; Ward 6; or Kirtland Park has been told
> somewhere along the way to look for me to help make sense of that piece of
> municipal history that flummoxes them.  Usually the phone call has been
> transferred 3 or four times: it behooves me to stop and listen.  Those
> calls that I can answer without cracking a book usually deal with city
> codes or questions I've gotten time after time. It's all about teaching
> folks to become their own historical detective or teaching them how to
> fish in the great pond of information known as History.  If one way won't
> work try another.  A very good way to talk up Archives is to literally
> spread the word--keep talking to others and enjoy it. [Martin Hauserman]
> --Thanks Peter ----------
> Martin Hauserman
> Archivist
> Cleveland City Council
> mhauserman@clevelandcitycouncil.org
>

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