I've run into a wall of my Sanctuary Place paper. Don't know where to go with it. It's a little unusual and I just don't know what kind of journal. The requirements for submission are tough, so much demanded. Problems with going it as a lone ranger.
My Fundraising Fair paper still stuck at Pacific Northwest Quarterly, they've had it for six months this time around. Last I heard, they were looking for another referee.
In my genealogy meeting the other night, I found myself telling the Sleepy Sickness story, my unlikely resolution of a family secret regarding my mother in law. I made a diagnosis of encephalitis induced parkinsonism based on the flimsiest of information. Nobody in the family would talk about my mother in law's mother and why she ended up in a mental institution.
Finally, I went down to the Washington State Archives during the summer with Ilana to look at the records for the "Western Hospital for the Insane." I was astounded to find her record with the cause of death
"Parkinson syndrome psychosis with epidemic encephalitis"
I was so stunned, I had nailed it!
I told the story, my genealogy group said "You should write it up!" Well, I had, but whatever happened to it? I had worked on it quite a bit but had I submitted it anywhere? Nope, didn't.
So I dug it out, one of the members read it and made some editing suggestions. I wrote it before I even took that genealogy class. So I've returned to it...
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