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RAIN 03/03 Weekly Update: Archives (23)



Reuters 02/22/02
Beatles Hey Jude manuscript goes under
the hammer
Fri Feb 22, 8:53 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney's manuscript of the Beatles' hit song "Hey Jude" goes up for auction in London in April when it is expected to fetch 80,000 pounds ($114,000).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020223/music_nm/beatles_1


Daily Herald 02/24/02
New research corrects the facts on early black settler
By Madhu Krishnamurthy Daily Herald Staff Writer
There is only a brief mention in history books of Amos Bennett, Lake County's first black settler.
But a nearly decadelong research effort by local historians has revealed remarkable information about this prominent man, initially recognized only as a "squatter" - someone who lives on land he doesn't own.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cdh/20020224/lo/new_res...rch_corrects_the_facts_on_early_black_settler_1.


New York Times 02/24/02
Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'?
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
NEWSPAPERS may provide a rough draft of history, but archives are where the
raw materials are stored. And so when politicians start messing around with public
archives, historians — and, of course, archivists — can be counted on to rise up in
arms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html


Wired News 02/25/02
DNA Unveils Ghost Town Secrets
Associated Press
VIRGINIA CITY, Nevada -- Archaeologists searching under floorboards in this 19th century mining town are using DNA testing in a way it's never been used before to learn secrets about the Old West.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50647,00.html


Foster's Online 02/25/02
Fifteenth-century history book discovered in Midcoast home
By ANN S. KIM
Associated Press Writer
CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — Barrie Pribyl knew she had something special when she took the old book out of the farmhouse and loaded it into her car with the hundreds of others.
What the book dealer didn’t know right away was that she had the "Nuremberg Chronicle," a 500-year-old history of the world considered a milestone in the history of printing.
http://www.fosters.com/news2002a/feb02/25/nh0225f.htm

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020227/ap_en_ot/wkd_nuremberg_chronicle_1


The Guardian 02/26/02
British Library digitises Chaucer for the internet
John Ezard
Technicians at the British Library yesterday began the delicate, six month task of digitising the mother work of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The project will open the book to a potential audience of millions through the internet. Surfers will be able to spend evenings online with two of the bawdiest characters in the language: the eponymous wife of Bath, and the miller's wife in the Miller's Tale.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,658246,00.html



Calhoun Times 02/26/02
Brown's photo collection saves past
Jeff Bishop
Beauty fades, buildings crumble, people pass on, and cemeteries become so overgrown with weeds that grandsons lose their grandfathers forever. But photographs remember. In that respect, Gordon County is well-represented, local archivist John Brown asserts. “We have the largest collection of old photographs in the state of Georgia,” Brown said. He should know A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List! To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to listserv@listserv.muohio.edu In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to archives@listserv.muohio.edu Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt