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RAIN 0602 Weekly Update: Archives (20)



AP 5/14/02
Report: Russia returns some archives to Belgium
Tue May 14, 2:10 PM ET
MOSCOW - Russia has agreed to allow 10 truckloads of Belgian archives, hidden for years in the KGB's possession, to return home in exchange for permission to make microfilm copies of historical Russian documents held by the Belgians, RTR television reported Tuesday.
Belgian experts told RTR that some 2 million Belgian documents were found in Moscow when the Soviet-era spy agency's files were opened in the 1990s. The archives include letters dating from World War I, Masonic materials, government documents and school diplomas.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap...0514/ap_wo_en_ge/russia_belgium_stolen_archives_1


AP 5/15/02
German government thanks Ukraine for
return of looted Bach archive
Wed May 15,10:34 AM ET
BERLIN - Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Wednesday thanked Ukraine for returning one of German music's most valuable treasures — an archive of music by Johann Sebastian Bach and his children that was lost in the chaos of World War II.
Last November Kiev returned the collection of about 5,000 documents, including signatures and score by Bach and his children, to Berlin, where it was originally housed as part of the Berlin Sing Academy.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020515/ap_wo_en_ge/germany_ukraine_bach_1


Environmental News Network 5/21/02
Archives of American Falconry Receives Grant Award
The Peregrine Fund’s Archives of American Falconry (AAF) recently received a grant
from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to improve
preservation of its archival collections related to the ancient sport of falconry. Materials in this $1.0 million collections date back to the 16th century and include books, art, correspondence, photographs, and equipment. This IMLS grant is the only such support provided to an Idaho institution this year. One of its professional reviewers, giving the proposal the highest recommendation, only regretted that The Archives had not requested more funds. The $7,700 grant will be matched with $7,700 from private sources.
http://www.enn.com/direct/display-release.asp?id=7005


The Copenhagen Post 5/24/02
Archive move may have hidden price tag
Though the government is standing firm on its decision to move the National Archive
from Copenhagen to Odense, opposition spokesman Ole Sohn believes public protests
might change the stance. Sohn's remarks came just after Parliament's Cultural Committee
met with Minister of Culture Brian Mikkelsen last week.
'The meeting confirmed my fear that the decision is based on neither objective nor
financial reason,' said Sohn.
http://cphpost.periskop.dk/default.asp?id=21739


Poughkeepsie Journal 5/26/02
Fate delivers bit of history
Poughkeepsie's De Pasquale discovers date book of
groundbreaking Italian aviator
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/sunday/lifeentertainment/stories/li052602s1.shtml


Clarksburg Exponent Telegram 5/27/02
Project seeks to 'put a human face' on WWII
by Pam Marra
STAFF WRITER
CLARKSBURG -- Boxes of World War II memorabilia collected cobwebs in O.D. Linder's
basement for years, but his memories of a scared young man in the throes of war never gathered dust.
http://www.cpubco.com/cgi-bin/LiveIQue.acgi$rec=10747cbgCurrentLocalNews?cbgCurrentLocalNews


Charlotte Observer 5/28/02
National project records veterans' stories
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - On a day set aside to remember America's war dead, 15 veterans gathered here to participate in a project designed to keep alive the memories of millions of men and women who served during wartime.
The veterans gathered at the Airborne & Special Operations Museum on Monday to record their stories for the Veteran's History Project of the Library of Congress.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/3349213.htm


Out in America 5/29/02
RARE GAY MEMORABILIA ON DISPLAY AT KENTUCKY
COLLEGE
OiA Newswire
During the month of May, the Williams-Nichols Collection of GLBT Materials at
the University of Louisville, Kentucky acquired several new and rare items for its
growing collection.
Most exciting is acquisition of the very first issue of The Advocate. First printed in
1967, that magazine has gone on to become the most important and influential
GLBT magazine in history. Before it's permanently archived, the rare and valuable
Issue #1 will be displayed at the organization's booth at the Kentuckiana Pride
Festival on the Louisville Belvedere on June 29 (see www.bclou.org/pride for
more details about that event, which is the largest annual GLBT gathering in
Kentucky).
http://www.outinamerica.com/Home/news.asp?articleid=2347



AP 5/29/02
New 'Lawrence of Arabia' Files Out
By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer
LONDON (AP) - T.E. Lawrence, the adventurer immortalized as "Lawrence of Arabia" for leading an army of desert warriors, paid two-thirds of his salary to a mysterious woman for more than a year, according to newly released files.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020529/ap_on_re_eu/lawrence_of_arabia_1


The Guardian 5/29/02
Museum gets OJ's DNA, but not the man
Julian Borger in Washington
Cultural pundits have been going on for years about how the OJ Simpson case had become part of US popular history, but now it's official. The DNA evidence from the infamous
courtroom drama was yesterday handed over to the country's most famous museum.
The Smithsonian Institution, which carries the same august prestige here as the British Museum, gratefully accepted a pile of thick manila envelopes of DNA test results from blood found at the Los Angeles scene where Mr Simpson's estranged wife, Nicole, and a friend of hers, Ronald Goldman, were found stabbed to death in 1994.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,723982,00.html


Jefferson City Herald Tribune 5/28/02
Blunt unveils new database about veterans of World War I
By BOB WATSON
News Tribune
Secretary of State Matt Blunt today launched a World War I Service Record Data Base on the Internet, based on Missouri National Guard records.
More than 145,000 Missourians who served during World War I are listed in the
new database, which was created by the State Archives.
It can be reached through the secretary of state's Web site, at www.
sos.state.mo.us/archives/.
http://www.newstribune.com/stories/052802/sta_0528020070.asp


South Bend Tribune 5/30/02
Placing history in database debated
St. Joseph County library plan draws access questions
By MARGARET FOSMOE
SOUTH BEND -- Can the sense of history to be found in a newspaper page yellowed with age or a book rendered fragile by the passage of years be satisfactorily transferred to a computer? Most members of the St. Joseph County Public Library board say they are comfortable with a plan to scan thousands of the library's newspaper clippings and other historical documents into a computer database.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2002/05/30/local.20020530-sbt-MARS-A1-Placing_history_in_d.sto


AScribe Newswire 5/30/02
Beyond Nancy Drew: Preserving the 'Fugitive Literature' of Girls
http://www.ascribe.org:2201/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20020530.151644&time=16


Washington Post 5/30/02
O.J. Trial DNA Analysis Given to Smithsonian
By Jacqueline Trescott
O.J. Simpson's DNA patterns from what was called the trial of the century are now at the Smithsonian.
Materials from the analysis of DNA evidence in the athlete's 1995 murder trial were
donated this week by the Germantown laboratory that did the tests.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29933-2002May29.html


New York Times 5/31/02
Ireland Buys a Trove of Joyce Notebooks
By BRIAN LAVERY
UBLIN, May 30 — In a sort of homecoming for this country's most famous exile, the National Library of Ireland has acquired a sprawling collection of manuscripts by James Joyce, including, in a total of some 700 pages in six notebooks, 16 drafts from "Ulysses" and typescripts and proofs of "Finnegans Wake." Discovered two years ago,
they were kept secret until today.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/31/books/31JOYC.html?pagewanted=print&position=top


Oshkosh Northwestern 5/31/02
UWO researchers restore, post 90-year-old movie of city
By Eric Bradley
Looking for a window to Oshkosh history? Use your computer monitor.
The first moving pictures of Oshkosh, taken 90 years ago today in 1912, were
posted to a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Internet site today. Then-resident
Carl Laemmle, the future founder of Universal Studios, commissioned the eight-minute movie "Oshkosh in Motion."
http://www.wisinfo.com/northwestern/local/053102-1.html


The Washington Times 6/1/02
Arkansas rejects tax rebates for Clinton Library
http://asp.washtimes.com/printarticle.asp?action=""



The Oregonian 6/01/02
RICK READ: Friends recall a gentle man with a passion for history, nature and art
LAURA GUNDERSON and PAIGE PARKER
FOREST GROVE -- A giant man in a dusty office at the Pacific University
Museum. New exhibits and precarious piles of historical journals surround him.
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?...f/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1022932652294462.xml


Dallas Morning News 6/2/02
Ghost town alive with controversy
Control of Thurber museum causing a stir
By DIANE JENNINGS / The Dallas Morning News
THURBER, Texas – A handful of buildings, an old railroad car, a flight of steps that pokes out of the grass and leads nowhere – that's about all that's left of a once-thriving coal-mining town between Fort Worth and Abilene.
Almost 70 years after it was abandoned, Thurber, Texas, exists mostly in the memories of former residents and descendants of those who put it on the map.
Unlike most ghost towns, Thurber refuses to fade into history unremembered. A $5 million museum, grandiosely dubbed the "W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas," is scheduled to open this fall on the remains of a long-vanished brick plant.
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/stories/060202dntexthurber.a4d78.html



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