So I'm thinking of private vs public. Our teacher last year talked about this. That often papers about a particular ancestor are about their private or public life. As many members of our class wrote about their female ancestors, they had to focus on private lives as women were (by a lot) not likely to be part of the public sphere. So they often did not have much to work with.
However Maier Zunder lived a rich well-documented public life. I don't have *all* of it as that would take reading a lot more newspapers of the time. But I have what I could find online plus the contents of the scrapbooks at Jewish Historical Society.
Who else had two big binders full of newspaper articles concerning their ancestor? He had a tremendous reputation with the local journalists. It one obituary, he was described as having such an accurate memory that if a newspaper reporter needed to know when something happened, they could ask Mr. Zunder. It seemed that with anything to do with with education, finance, banking, business, a reporter would go visit Mr. Zunder and ask what he though. Mr. Zunder would give his informed opinion and the reporter would write it up.
So, it seems make sense to divide the paper into private (conditions in Bavaria, his immigration, going to Connecticut, his marriages and children, harmonie social club, his death, the lodge of sorrow address) and public (his business, his bank, b'nai brith lodge, board of education, Zunder school.
Mostly the introductions need to be reworked and things need to be cut. I think the editor would like more Board of Education. He really was quite the man.
It's all just work!! Today, I spent a lot of time helping out bringing Melina to a stressful dental appointment. It all worked out fine, they could do the least invasive option with the least invasive anesthesia. But it involves a LOT of driving. 5 hours elapsed time, minimum.
Picture taken from an OECD site, used without permission.
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