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RAIN-drop: Wire recordings revive voices from the past



If you've ever kept a message on your answering machine so that you can
thrill to hearing it a ridiculous number of times, then you understand how a
voice can keep the past present. You understand a voice's power to revive
the dead, retrieve the lost, reincarnate the vanished, to repeat a moment
that can never really come again.

And if you understand that, you'll understand Steve Gwost's odd passion.

Go to:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/showcase/chi-0205220160may22.c
olumn?coll=chi%2Dhomepagenews%2Dutl

On the one hand, the writer practically derides this person ("an unmarried
polka trumpeter who has lived in the same house in Lansing, Michigan since
1959") and his media preservation efforts (and "odd" and "eccentric"
"passion") while on the other hand, notes the emotional impact his efforts
have had for many.

Susan Sacharski
Archivist
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
ssachars@nmh.org

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