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RAIN 0727 Weekly Update: Archives (15)



Contra Costa Times 7/20/02
JOAN MORRIS: JOAN'S WORLD
Wingding of a video simply can't be found
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/3700925.htm


Anchorage Daily News 7/21/02
Archive looks to expand
RECORDS Request to fund move for Anchorage office advances in Senate.
By Liz Ruskin
Washington -- Like other regional offices of the National Archives, the Anchorage branch gets thousands of visits a year, usually from genealogy researchers who scan the microfilmed census records. But the Anchorage location also helps hundreds of people who turn to the archived texts for more pressing needs.
They may want to find employment records from when they hunted seals, for example.
"There is a practical, day-to-day justification for our facility that transcends the purely historical interest by scholarly  researchers," Bruce Parham, acting director of the Anchorage Regional Archives, wrote in a letter to Sen. Ted Stevens.
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/1456286p-1574596c.html


New Haven Register 7/21/02
Voices of black elders being preserved for history
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Joe Black's death this year occurred just days before
he was scheduled to make a digital recording of his life story as the
first African-American pitcher to win a World Series game.
The sad timing of his passing was not lost on Camille Cosby and Renee Poussaint, who
started the National Visionary Leadership Project this year to help preserve the voice of a generation of legendary and pioneering African Americans now in their 70s and older.
<<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4805843&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=31007&rfi=6>>


Dallas Morning News 7/21/02
Historian decodes life in the fan
By KENT BIFFLE
TEXARKANA, Texas – If you know the lingo, a hand-held fan can transmit messages as tender as that of my old necktie, which lit up and blinked "Kiss Me, Baby, in the Dark."
Call it a cool show for a hot season. A museum on State Line Avenue in this leafy, split-personality city is exhibiting a summer array of plain and fancy fans evocative of long-ago sobs and smiles, frolics and funerals.
<<http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/columnists/kbiffle/stories/072102dntexbiffle.4ba95.html>>


Chicago Tribune 7/21/02
Search for roots in Lithuania
http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-0207210399jul21.story?coll=chi%2Dtravel%2Dhed


Corsicana Daily Sun 7/21/02
Work continues on Navarro College collection of artifacts
By RUTH THOMPSON/Daily Sun Staff
Spikes, handcuffs, iron masks and jail cells are some of the artifacts that Julie Holocomb, archivist at Navarro College, deals with.
The archives at Navarro College are composed of four categories. The special collections department is composed of the Western Art, Physical Restraint, Samuel's Hobbit, Robert S. Reading Arrowhead and the Pearce Civil War collections while the college archives is composed of college's past time memorabilia. Community archives and rare books are also categories, but Holocomb rarely has time to work on those at the present.
http://www.corsicanadailysun.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/July/20-335-news01.txt



The Virginian Pilot 7/22/02
Museum buys rare drawings of ironclad Virginia
By PAUL CLANCY
NEWPORT NEWS -- With the raising of the turret of the Yankees' ironclad, the Monitor, just days away, the Mariners' Museum on Monday unveiled important drawings of the ship's Confederate opponent.
The museum announced that it has purchased two of the original drawings of the
Virginia, the one-time Union frigate Merrimack, that battled the Monitor to a draw
in Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862.
http://www.pilotonline.com/special/monitor/virginia.html


Wired 7/23/02
How to Preserve Digital Art
By Kendra Mayfield
Digital technology is so ephemeral that an artwork created using a G4 Mac, Flash 4.0 software and C++ coding today may no longer be viewable 10, 20 or even 200 years from now.
Film canisters are collecting dust after 75 years of nonuse, video formats from the 1980s are becoming unreadable and Web projects created just minutes ago are already becoming stale.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53712,00.html


Deseret News 7/24/02
Media get look at Lee papers
Documents were found at Beaver County Courthouse
By Joe Bauman
The document looks crisp, with a blue and purple line setting off the left margin of the white legal paper. The dark ink handwriting is clear and firm.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405019824,00.html?



Scripps Howard News Service July 25, 2002
A university symbol will return to Indian owners
By JULIE POPPEN
A totem pole that gave the University of Northern Colorado its mascot and became the
centerpiece for innumerable photos, rallies and campus pranks is returning to its Alaskan birthplace after an 88-year campus run.
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=TOTEM-07-25-02&cat=AN


The Olympian 7/26/02
Archivist cracks Capitol mystery
Capsule believed to contain material from early 1950s
BRAD SHANNON
"Let's put it in the ground and let the people in 2053 deal with it." -- Patrick McDonald, special assistant to Secretary of State Sam Reed
An old wood box found in an attic of the Legislative Building might be the missing,
second capsule that was packed with historical materials but never buried during the
state's territorial centennial celebration in 1953.
A state research archivist, Pat Hopkins, turned up a folder of materials Thursday that
appears to identify the mysterious wooden box crews found as they cleaned the Capitol to prepare for a $100 million renovation.
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20020726/frontpage/20936.shtml

http://www.komotv.com/stories/19564.htm

http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/1483224p-1600918c.html



Express & Star 7/26/02
History society's bid to encourage visits
http://www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article_7544.shtml



National Review 7/26/02
Literary Blackface?
The mystery of Hannah Crafts.
By John Bloom
Was Hannah Crafts really a black woman? Was she really a slave? How do we know she wasn't a tea-sipping housewife in Morristown who wanted to help abolish slavery?
I'm just not as convinced as everyone else seems to be that this "new" slave novel is
authentic.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-bloom072602.asp


Tribune Chronicle 7/26/02
Niles school trying to preserve its past
By RON SELAK JR.
NILES - Board of Education members learned Thursday that historical documents found while construction crews were removing the cornerstone at Edison Junior High School can no longer be touched.
Edison Principal Robert L. Marino Jr. told the board during its regular meeting that historical memorabilia found inside a time capsule already is deteriorating.
http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/news/story/07262002_new07.asp







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