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From: "Vee L. Housman" <>
Subject: [PD-LIFE] Back in the saddle
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:28:48 -0400


Dear Group,

Now that the Town of Porter Historical Society newsletter is in the mail to all our members, I'm finally coming up for air and can put aside my editor's hat until September.

This afternoon I looked around my office and finally couldn't stand the chaos in it. I took care of the little stuff, threw some of it away, filed some of it and then turned my attention back to the stack of stuff I had inherited recently from the Town of Porter. With some of it I still need a filing cabinet to store it in but I KNEW that there were stacks and stacks of newspaper articles that had been cut out at LEAST 40 years ago by previous Town of Porter Historians.

So I put on my Town of Porter Historian's hat and dug in. Oh Lordy, what a treasure trove! I'm still sorting out the brittle old articles by year and so far I have neat stacks of articles from 1881, 1882, 1886, 1887, 1889 and a different stack of articles that are dated around 1901.

I still have a stack more to sort through and then I'll have to type up individual pages in my word processing program with the name of the newspaper and the date, print them out, and then attach the individual articles to each sheet. Then all that I'll need to do is put them all in chronological order, three-hole punch them and then go to the Town Hall and let them know how many more notebooks I'll need to store all of them in.

I continue to marvel over the historical and genealogical information that are contained in them as I glance over them and I know that they cry to be scanned with an OCR program so that they can be "searched" through. But if nothing else, I continue to put them in more readable form than they were when they were stuffed into little envelopes and I continue to use them as "fodder" for our monthly newsletter. They haven't seen the light of day in YEARS!

Back in the saddle!
vee







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