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Austin American-Statesman 02/18/02
Your leader through the labyrinth
Can't find something in the maze of the Ransom Center? Don't worry, John=20
Kirkpatrick will know where it is
http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/18kirkpatrickransom.html



The Journal-Star 02/19/02
Dirksen Center broadens horizons
Facility will move from cramped library, may donate political mementos to=20
museum
http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g80987a.html



Green Bay News-Chronicle 02/19/02
It's a wreck
By Joe Knaapen
For The News-Chronicle
Until this month, June Larson could see shipwrecks only in photographs or as=
=20
artifacts she measures in her job as assistant curator at the Door County=20
Maritime Museum.
For someone like Larson, who doesn't want to get her hair wet, the idea of=20
diving underwater to look at the remains of a historic ship was just that: a=
n=20
idea, a pipe dream.
http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=3D112635



Bangor Daily News 02/19/02
CD-ROM illuminates Maine history
Archivist=E2=80=99s collection of little-known facts available=20
AUGUSTA =E2=80=94 If you=E2=80=99re one of Maine=E2=80=99s great unwashed wh=
o suspect Gulf Hagas=20
could be the signature dish of Scotsmen temporarily assigned to military dut=
y=20
in Yemen, Jim Henderson wants to hear from you.
http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.h...yHiggins&cname=3DStatewi=
de&
section=3DElsewhere&tt=3D4AM


Washington Post 02/19/02
Post Magazine
This Week: Monumental Ambitions
With Paula Span
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002; 1 p.m. EST
Presidential libraries are part history and part hagiography, part archival=20
mother lode and part kitschy commerce. Mostly they are monuments to their=20
namesakes, from FDR to JFK to Ronald Reagan. And taxpayers fund them to the=20
tune of $55 million a year. So, are they worth it?
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/magazine_span021902.htm



Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
The Treasures of the Ransom Center
A collection seen through a microscope
Five labs perform painstaking work of restoring and preserving treasures
By Michael Barnes
For Olivia Primanis, the chemical composition of pigment used for the=20
illustration of a 400-year-old book is not inconsequential.
In order to repair damage to a fragile volume, the Ransom Center conservator=
=20
must first do a microscopic study of the remaining colorations. Once she has=
=20
determined whether the pigment is water soluble, Primanis re-adheres the=20
dried-out pigment particles to each other and to the parchment.=20
Sometimes, however, she must discover the chemical constitution of each hue,=
=20
so  Primanis re-creates the pigmentmaking process of the original illustrato=
r.
http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19labsransom.html



Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
The Treasures of the Ransom Center
Opening up Harry Ransom's fortress
$14 million renovation promises to make the center more welcoming, easier fo=
r=20
people to use
http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19renovationransom.html



Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
The Treasures of the Ransom Center
Center unboxes 175
greatest works for show
By Michael Barnes
American-Statesman Arts Writer
Tuesday, February 17, 2002
It takes only one visit. A stroll through the exhibit "From Gutenberg to Gon=
e=20
with the Wind: Treasures from the Ransom Center" argues better than any=20
newspaper article the global significance of the University of Texas' $1=20
billion cultural archives. Because the Ransom Center's home at Guadalupe and=
=20
21st streets is under renovation, this show is set up at the LBJ Library and=
=20
Museum through May 3. The 175 items on display represent just a sliver of th=
e=20
center's 30 million literary manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million=20
photographs, 100,000 pieces of art and miscellaneous ephemera =E2=80=94 item=
s such as=20
desks, pens and paperweights that belonged to writers or artists.
Yet they are doozies.
http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19exhibitransom.html


KOMO 02/18/02
A Labor Of Love For Local History Buffs
By John Sharify
SEATTLE - It's like putting together pieces to a puzzle. Old photographs,=20
historic
documents, and artifacts that can take your breath away.
http://www.komotv.com/stories/16890.htm


Chicago Tribune 02/19/02
Basement trove of art
Mundelein High finds lithographs donated in 1979
By Robert Gutsche Jr
Special to the Tribune
When a Mundelein High School secretary stumbled across a forgotten art=20
collection that had been gathering dust in the basement for 23 years,=20
teachers were delighted, but now the school faces an unexpected dilemma.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0202190044feb19.story?coll=3Dch=
i-ne

wslocal-hed


The Times-Record 02/19/02
In Georgetown, historical society setting down roots
Bob_Kalish@TimesRecord.Com
GEORGETOWN =E2=80=94 The Georgetown Historical Society plans to construct a=20=
permanent=20
home for itself on land donated by a former resident who now lives in=20
Massachusetts.
http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/ne.../8A49386A3BE6E24885256B6500=
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Washington Times 02/21/02
Bible on Web
By Ann Geracimos
First, movable type. Now, the electronic squeeze.
Thanks to the blessings of modern technology, the Gutenberg Bible =E2=80=94=20=
the=20
Western world's first large-size printed book =E2=80=94 soon will be availab=
le on=20
home computer screens, although in a much reduced size.
Slowly and painstakingly, Octavo, a company in Oakland, Calif., is creating=20=
a
state-of-the-art digital facsimile in partnership with the Library of=20
Congress,
which owns one of three perfect copies in existence.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20020221-4301012.htm


Orlando Sentinel 02/21/02
She fits pieces of past into a future
By Darryl E. Owens=20
The tall woman with a short Afro steals a peek at her watch. She's late. It'=
s=20
10:15. On her day off. No one is watching the clock.
Antiques stores open at 10. She's anxious to collect the rhythm and blues 45=
s=20
she placed on layaway a payday past. And she's planning to pan for more gold=
.
http://orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts/orl-livmundy022102feb21.story?=
co

ll=3Dorl%2Dcaltop


New York Times 02/23/02
Disaster Rewrites Museums' Guidebooks
By GLENN COLLINS
What would the American Museum of Natural History do for Act II?
Three million visitors had already seen the Rose Center for Earth and Space'=
s=20
inaugural
planetarium show =E2=80=94 a technically advanced five-billion-light- year t=
our of=20
the cosmos
launched from Central Park. After some debate (was the subject too aloof?),=20
the museum
decided that the next show had to be "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/nyregion/23EXHI.html


New York Times 02/23/02
Challenging the History of a Slave Conspiracy
By DINITA SMITH
Among African-Americans, Denmark Vesey's plot to lead a slave rebellion in=20
Charleston, S.C., in 1822 has always been a symbol of black resistance to=20
oppression, proof that slaves did not docilely accept their fate. Along with=
=20
slave rebellions like the Nat Turner uprising in 1831, the Vesey conspiracy=20
has been held up as proof that the spirits of blacks were not broken by=20
captivity.
Had Vesey's plot succeeded, it would have been the largest slave rebellion i=
n=20
American history. But the conspiracy was thwarted by informers =E2=80=94 or=20=
so=20
historians have thought. Thirty-four slaves and Vesey, the one free black,=20
were hanged as a result of the charges, making it probably the biggest=20
execution ever in an American civilian judicial proceeding.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/arts/23TANK.html



Finger Lakes Times 02/17/02
Photo book documents Finger Lakes aviator
By:BRIAN P. HEFFRON
KEUKA PARK - Charles R. Mitchell enjoys flying, though he is not an aviation=
=20
buff. He is a photography buff, however, which led him to his latest project=
=20
about flying.
Mitchell, 61, of Yoder Hill Road, has produced three books on local history=20
and is
working on his fourth. Most recently, he laid out a book on the Finger Lakes=
'=20
own
aviation pioneer, Glenn H. Curtiss.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D3298417&BRD=3D1206&PAG=3D461&;
dept_id=3D237369&rfi=3D6




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va

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Courier New" LANG=3D"0">New York Times 02/18/02
<BR>Patent Models' Strange Odyssey
<BR>By TERESA RIORDAN
<BR>IN the 1870's, the United States Patent and Trademark Office was a big t=
ourist
<BR>attraction in Washington. Its Parthenon-inspired facade, along with the=20=
United States
<BR>Capitol, dominated the skyline. Inside, visitors roamed its grand galler=
ies, peering into glass cases that stretched from the floor midway to the 20=
-foot vaulted ceilings.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/18/business/18PATE.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Austin American-Statesman 02/18/02
<BR>Center collected its share of controversies
<BR>From Austin and abroad, questions of authenticity, impropriety and unpai=
d bills grew with archives
<BR>By Michael Barnes
<BR>The University of Texas courted literary controversy long before Harry H=
untt Ransom planned a top-drawer cultural archive in 1957.
<BR>In 1918, the still-young university made its first big purchase of rare=20=
books =E2=80=94 the library of Chicago collector John Henry Wrenn. The hoard=
 was, by any standards, superb,
<BR>containing 6,000 first and rare editions, mostly by 17th- and 18th-centu=
ry English and American authors. Years later, it would serve as a foundation=
 for Ransom's Humanities
<BR>Research Center and its $1 billion collection of 40 million rare books,=20=
manuscripts, photographs and artworks.
<BR>http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/18controversyransom.h=
tml
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Austin American-Statesman 02/18/02
<BR>Your leader through the labyrinth
<BR>Can't find something in the maze of the Ransom Center? Don't worry, John=
 Kirkpatrick will know where it is
<BR>http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/18kirkpatrickransom.h=
tml
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Journal-Star 02/19/02
<BR>Dirksen Center broadens horizons
<BR>Facility will move from cramped library, may donate political mementos t=
o museum
<BR>http://www.pjstar.com/news/topnews/g80987a.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Green Bay News-Chronicle 02/19/02
<BR>It's a wreck
<BR>By Joe Knaapen
<BR>For The News-Chronicle
<BR>Until this month, June Larson could see shipwrecks only in photographs o=
r as artifacts she measures in her job as assistant curator at the Door Coun=
ty Maritime Museum.
<BR>For someone like Larson, who doesn't want to get her hair wet, the idea=20=
of diving underwater to look at the remains of a historic ship was just that=
: an idea, a pipe dream.
<BR>http://www.greenbaynewschron.com/page.html?article=3D112635
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Bangor Daily News 02/19/02
<BR>CD-ROM illuminates Maine history
<BR>Archivist=E2=80=99s collection of little-known facts available=20
<BR>AUGUSTA =E2=80=94 If you=E2=80=99re one of Maine=E2=80=99s great unwashe=
d who suspect Gulf Hagas could be the signature dish of Scotsmen temporarily=
 assigned to military duty in Yemen, Jim Henderson wants to hear from you.
<BR>http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.h...yHiggins&amp;cname=
=3DStatewide&amp;section=3DElsewhere&amp;tt=3D4AM
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Post 02/19/02
<BR>Post Magazine
<BR>This Week: Monumental Ambitions
<BR>With Paula Span
<BR>Washington Post Staff Writer
<BR>Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2002; 1 p.m. EST
<BR>Presidential libraries are part history and part hagiography, part archi=
val mother lode and part kitschy commerce. Mostly they are monuments to thei=
r namesakes, from FDR to JFK to Ronald Reagan. And taxpayers fund them to th=
e tune of $55 million a year. So, are they worth it?
<BR>http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/02/magazine_span021902.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
<BR>The Treasures of the Ransom Center
<BR>A collection seen through a microscope
<BR>Five labs perform painstaking work of restoring and preserving treasures
<BR>By Michael Barnes
<BR>For Olivia Primanis, the chemical composition of pigment used for the il=
lustration of a 400-year-old book is not inconsequential.
<BR>In order to repair damage to a fragile volume, the Ransom Center conserv=
ator must first do a microscopic study of the remaining colorations. Once sh=
e has determined whether the pigment is water soluble, Primanis re-adheres t=
he dried-out pigment particles to each other and to the parchment.=20
<BR>Sometimes, however, she must discover the chemical constitution of each=20=
hue, so &nbsp;Primanis re-creates the pigmentmaking process of the original=20=
illustrator.
<BR>http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19labsransom.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
<BR>The Treasures of the Ransom Center
<BR>Opening up Harry Ransom's fortress
<BR>$14 million renovation promises to make the center more welcoming, easie=
r for people to use
<BR>http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19renovationransom.ht=
ml
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Austin American-Statesman 02/19/02
<BR>The Treasures of the Ransom Center
<BR>Center unboxes 175
<BR>greatest works for show
<BR>By Michael Barnes
<BR>American-Statesman Arts Writer
<BR>Tuesday, February 17, 2002
<BR>It takes only one visit. A stroll through the exhibit "From Gutenberg to=
 Gone with the Wind: Treasures from the Ransom Center" argues better than an=
y newspaper article the global significance of the University of Texas' $1 b=
illion cultural archives. Because the Ransom Center's home at Guadalupe and=20=
21st streets is under renovation, this show is set up at the LBJ Library and=
 Museum through May 3. The 175 items on display represent just a sliver of t=
he center's 30 million literary manuscripts, 1 million rare books, 5 million=
 photographs, 100,000 pieces of art and miscellaneous ephemera =E2=80=94 ite=
ms such as desks, pens and paperweights that belonged to writers or artists.
<BR>Yet they are doozies.
<BR>http://www.austin360.com/aas/specialreports/ransom/19exhibitransom.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>KOMO 02/18/02
<BR>A Labor Of Love For Local History Buffs
<BR>By John Sharify
<BR>SEATTLE - It's like putting together pieces to a puzzle. Old photographs=
, historic
<BR>documents, and artifacts that can take your breath away.
<BR>http://www.komotv.com/stories/16890.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Chicago Tribune 02/19/02
<BR>Basement trove of art
<BR>Mundelein High finds lithographs donated in 1979
<BR>By Robert Gutsche Jr
<BR>Special to the Tribune
<BR>When a Mundelein High School secretary stumbled across a forgotten art c=
ollection that had been gathering dust in the basement for 23 years, teacher=
s were delighted, but now the school faces an unexpected dilemma.
<BR>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0202190044feb19.story?coll=
=3Dchi-newslocal-hed
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>The Times-Record 02/19/02
<BR>In Georgetown, historical society setting down roots
<BR>Bob_Kalish@TimesRecord.Com
<BR>GEORGETOWN =E2=80=94 The Georgetown Historical Society plans to construc=
t a permanent home for itself on land donated by a former resident who now l=
ives in Massachusetts.
<BR>http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/ne.../8A49386A3BE6E24885256B=
650054F871?Opendocument
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Washington Times 02/21/02
<BR>Bible on Web
<BR>By Ann Geracimos
<BR>First, movable type. Now, the electronic squeeze.
<BR>Thanks to the blessings of modern technology, the Gutenberg Bible =E2=
=80=94 the Western world's first large-size printed book =E2=80=94 soon will=
 be available on home computer screens, although in a much reduced size.
<BR>Slowly and painstakingly, Octavo, a company in Oakland, Calif., is creat=
ing a
<BR>state-of-the-art digital facsimile in partnership with the Library of Co=
ngress,
<BR>which owns one of three perfect copies in existence.
<BR>http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20020221-4301012.htm
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Orlando Sentinel 02/21/02
<BR>She fits pieces of past into a future
<BR>By Darryl E. Owens=20
<BR>The tall woman with a short Afro steals a peek at her watch. She's late.=
 It's 10:15. On her day off. No one is watching the clock.
<BR>Antiques stores open at 10. She's anxious to collect the rhythm and blue=
s 45s she placed on layaway a payday past. And she's planning to pan for mor=
e gold.
<BR>http://orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/arts/orl-livmundy022102feb21.st=
ory?coll=3Dorl%2Dcaltop
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 02/23/02
<BR>Disaster Rewrites Museums' Guidebooks
<BR>By GLENN COLLINS
<BR>What would the American Museum of Natural History do for Act II?
<BR>Three million visitors had already seen the Rose Center for Earth and Sp=
ace's inaugural
<BR>planetarium show =E2=80=94 a technically advanced five-billion-light- ye=
ar tour of the cosmos
<BR>launched from Central Park. After some debate (was the subject too aloof=
?), the museum
<BR>decided that the next show had to be "The Search for Life: Are We Alone?=
"
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/nyregion/23EXHI.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>New York Times 02/23/02
<BR>Challenging the History of a Slave Conspiracy
<BR>By DINITA SMITH
<BR>Among African-Americans, Denmark Vesey's plot to lead a slave rebellion=20=
in Charleston, S.C., in 1822 has always been a symbol of black resistance to=
 oppression, proof that slaves did not docilely accept their fate. Along wit=
h slave rebellions like the Nat Turner uprising in 1831, the Vesey conspirac=
y has been held up as proof that the spirits of blacks were not broken by ca=
ptivity.
<BR>Had Vesey's plot succeeded, it would have been the largest slave rebelli=
on in American history. But the conspiracy was thwarted by informers =E2=80=
=94 or so historians have thought. Thirty-four slaves and Vesey, the one fre=
e black, were hanged as a result of the charges, making it probably the bigg=
est execution ever in an American civilian judicial proceeding.
<BR>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/23/arts/23TANK.html
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Finger Lakes Times 02/17/02
<BR>Photo book documents Finger Lakes aviator
<BR>By:BRIAN P. HEFFRON
<BR>KEUKA PARK - Charles R. Mitchell enjoys flying, though he is not an avia=
tion buff. He is a photography buff, however, which led him to his latest pr=
oject about flying.
<BR>Mitchell, 61, of Yoder Hill Road, has produced three books on local hist=
ory and is
<BR>working on his fourth. Most recently, he laid out a book on the Finger L=
akes' own
<BR>aviation pioneer, Glenn H. Curtiss.
<BR>http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3D3298417&amp;BRD=3D1206&amp;P=
AG=3D461&amp;dept_id=3D237369&amp;rfi=3D6
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
<BR>pakurilecz@aol.com
<BR>Richmond, Va</FONT></HTML>

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