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Re: Saints
OK, I'll bite. How 'bout Angelina Eberly? She was the cannoneer in the
(in)famous Archive War of Texas.
Check the Handbook of Texas for a description of the event:
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/mqa2.html
Michael C. Miller
Special Collections Librarian
Dallas Public Library, Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division
1515 Young St.
Dallas TX 75201
214-670-1440
fax: 214-670-1437
mmiller@dallaslibrary.org
Visit us at http://dallaslibrary.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda C. Morrison [SMTP:lcmorrison@MINDSPRING.COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 10:12 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Saints
>
> Hello folks--I've been meaning to add my thought to one of the subjects
> everyone is tired of--patron saints of archives/archivists.
> Never mind St. laurence, let's figure out for ourselves some deserving
> hero/heroine of archivy, and establish him/her as our 'icon/guardian
> angel/whatever.' Someone we think of when archives problems arise, or
> whose
> example inspires us, etc. I'd nominate Hypatia, who died trying to protect
> the ancient library at Alexandria, except that I think a more recent
> figure
> would be better. Only qualification is that the person is no longer alive.
> Any nominations?
> Linda Morrison, Boston area.
>
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