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RAIN 0714 Weekly Update: Archives (18)
Baltimore Sun 7/3/02
Oh say, you can't see the poem that became the national anthem
Key's handwritten words locked up for safety's sake
By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
It is a source of Baltimore pride, an icon of American history and perhaps
the most vivid symbol of Independence Day aside from the flag itself.
But for now, the oldest manuscript of Francis Scott Key's "Star-Spangled
Banner," the celebrated poem that became the words of America's national
anthem, is off-limits.
And so are many of the other prominent symbols of history that patriotic
Americans might be hoping to visit to celebrate the birth of their nation.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-te.md.history03jul03.story?coll=bal%2Dlo
cal%2Dheadlines
The Daily Local 7/5/02
Pennsbury compiles its history
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4652778&BRD=1671&PAG=461&
dept_id=17782&rfi=6
San Francisco Chronicle 7/7/02
Castro knows the sound of silence Pre-talkies find a perfect home at movie
palace's annual festival
by Edward Guthmann
If it weren't for the Castro Theatre and its reputation among film
archivists, Stephen Salmons and Melissa Chittick wouldn't be able to mount
the Silent Film Festival each year. It's not just the theater's vintage,
1921, that makes it attractive, Salmons says, or the Mighty Wurlitzer organ,
or the plush trappings that spell old-time movie palace.
It's that archivists don't have to worry about their films being mishandled.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/07/PK47
21.DTL&type=movies
San Francisco Chronicle 7/7/02
History comes to life
Artist stages re-enactments of old photos at Yerba Buena Gardens
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/07/PK24
430.DTL&type=performance
AsiaSource 7/8/02
Preserving Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage: An Interview with
Nancy Hatch Dupree
http://www.asiasource.org/arts/nancydupree.cfm
Wired 7/8/02
The King of Mac 'T' Collectors
By Leander Kahney
Raines Cohen is the Imelda Marcos of Macintosh T-shirts. Over the years,
Cohen has collected more than 500 T-shirts relating to Apple and the Mac.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,53619,00.html
Buffalo Business First 7/8/02
Buffalo's past seen in capsule
James Fink
When Michael Sullivan started the exterior renovation of the historic Catholic
Center in downtown Buffalo, he figured somewhere in the 1930s era building
was a
time capsule.
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2002/07/08/story4.html
Sacramento Business Journal 7/8/02
History lesson: Online archive of dot-coms
Douglas Caldwell Guest Writer
Where do the business plans of the sock puppets, the grocery delivery
services, the
teen e-zines go when those dot-com businesses die?
If the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and San
Francisco's Webmergers.com succeed, those business plans will go into a
business
plan archive, a Web-based initiative designed to create a permanent record of
the
historic dot-com era.
Businessplanarchive.org will collect business-planning documents that
entrepreneurs and researchers can use to learn from past business successes
and
failures.
http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2002/07/08/smallb6.html
Dallas Morning News 7/9/02
Decherd Henry Turner Jr.: Bibliophile guided university libraries in Dallas,
Austin
http://www.dallasnews.com/obituaries/stories/070902dnmetturnerob.90424.html
The Holland Sentinel 7/9/02
Historic archives split will aid access
Moving documents from Hope's Joint Archives to museum may improve their
availability despite concerns
By DAVID JESSE
Staff Writer
It's the beginning of the end for the formal relationship between Hope
College's Joint Archives and the Holland Historic Trust.
The Joint Archives no longer processes any documents dropped off for the
Trust, which runs the Holland Museum, the Cappon House, the Settlers House
and the Holland Armory, as museum officials work to set up their own archives
in the basement of the museum building in downtown Holland.
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/070902/loc_070902004.shtml
Deseret News 7/9/02
Museums broke A.F. rules
Hill foundation says it is now in full compliance
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405016768,00.html
AP 7/9/02
TV Collector Covets Show's Minutiae
By LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - James Comisar is whistling a happy tune as he scrounges
through a rack of clothing. From the thousands of items in his TV memorabilia
collection, Comisar plucks out sheriff's costumes used in "The Andy Griffith
Show" as he evokes a few bars of the show's theme song.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&
u=/ap/20020709/ap_en_tv/ap_on_tv_tv_collecto
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CNN.com 7/10/02
Historian turns over Cuban recordings
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- The record albums that Cristobal Diaz Ayala has
collected fill shelf after shelf, room after room.
Over a quarter-century, the music historian has amassed 42,000 records plus
thousands of tapes and reams of sheet music at his home in Puerto Rico. It is
from throughout Latin America, from danzas to boleros, but its largest
component is the music of Cuba, where Diaz Ayala was born.
http://europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/americas/07/10/puertorico.musictreas.ap/index
.html
Montreal Gazette 7/11/02
Hockey historian shoots for loftier goal
Why stop at commemorative plaque when Victoria Rink can be restored, he asks
http://www.canada.com/montreal/news/story.asp?id={E4395BFB-AF30-47F7-9BF5-9225
82AA1321}
Indian Country Today 7/13/02
Tribal identity a priority for Seminole ethnohistorian
by Pat Hubbard
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- The Seminole Tribe of Florida took a huge step toward
preserving its social history when it created a Department of Anthropology
and Genealogy in 1995 at its headquarters here.
Directed by ethnohistorian Patricia R. Wickman, PhD, the department primarily
serves members of the tribe. Its central mission is to preserve records that
reconstruct tribal families and clans bound by blood and fictive kinship
throughout Seminole
history. Wickman and her staff research old records and conduct oral history
interviews with tribal members to construct the Seminole cultural and
genealogical record from the 16th century to the present.
http://www.indiancountry.com/?1026177135
Galveston County Daily News 7/11/02
Archivist works on space center's history