I’m “It!” Always did love the game of Tag, and now I am honored to be tagged TWICE with the “I Heart Your Blog” -- by Sheri Bush at TwigTalk and by Linda Steinstra From Axer to Ziegler. Thank you for the kind words and your vote of confidence.In the spirit of passing it on, I understand that the … [Read more...]
Treasure Hunt! A Challenge for Genea Bloggers
Lately I have written about The Magic Cupboard that seems to yield a treasure each time I open the door. First, I went looking for photos for my Personal Profile and out tumbled Arline's store of negatives from the early 1900's. Next I went back looking for pictures for the I Smile for the Camera … [Read more...]
Getting to Know Me, Getting to Know The Family Curator
BB (Before Blogging), like most other high-school English teachers, my reading list consisted primarily of essays, college applications, and research papers, and my writing was mainly in the “short and direct” genre along the margins of student papers. Occasionally I scribbled in pencil in the … [Read more...]
Treasure Revealed !!!
All I can say is "Wow!" Arline sure knew how to set up a photo shoot. I've been working with the negatives that fell out of The Magic Cupboard to scan a few on my flatbed scanner. When I saw this one, I was stunned. It appears to be part of a series and I can't wait to scan and print the rest of … [Read more...]
Yale, Family Papers & High School Students in Archival Project
Archivist Rebecca Fanning kindly sent me a link to a posting in Spellbound Blog about a pilot program carried out by Yale archivists similar to the project I did last spring with the Arline Allen Kinsel Papers and my high school students.The pilot aimed to introduce them to what archivists do, work … [Read more...]
Arline and Christian Smile for the Camera
This rendition of I Smile for the Camera is especially appropriate for photographs from the extended Arline Allen Kinsel Papers. By that, I mean, extended from Arline’s turn of the century files into the current generation’s archive. It wasn’t hard to find photos on this topic, but … [Read more...]
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