Photoessay #2079 - Search for an author

I finally got a book through Inter-Library Loan "Connecticut's Public Schools; A Hstory, 1650-2000"which my editor thought was important.  I read the paragraph about my topic (New Haven's Devotional Exercise controversy in 1877-78).  In the note, there was a substantive quote from another paper about this very same topic!  I had never seen ANYTHING like this.  An undergraduate Yale senrior theise from Yale.  I must see it!

Going through UW ILL, nothing so far.

After a few weeks, I made some inquiries at the academic department, not very helpful.

All the while, I'm trying to find this author on the internet, not successful but I didn't give up.  The combination of factors I kept playing against each other seem so typical in a cloud sort of way.  Nothing in facebook.  I knew she was in an enology graduate student in California, saw some property purchases in San Francisco, some references to a small publishing company with San Francisco and New Haven connections.  Several mentions of korean food.  I knew I was getting close.  Then a korean food blog written by somebody else saying that she was writing a cookbook with my author's name with a reference to the publishing company.  Plus a way to write to author of the blog.  Yeah, I was pretty sure I found her.  I wrote to the author of the blog, asking if her co-author had been to Yale and written this paper and giving my contact information.  She wrote back saying she didn't think I had the right person but she would copy her friend anyway.  I thought to myself, no, I think this is the right person.

And she wrote me back and she was indeed the author I was looking for.  She likely had a hard copy though she didn't know exactly where.  I was so thrilled.  I hope she finds it so I can read it.  I sent the most recent version to her.

Yay!  All that experience searching for people from my previous day job pays off.

A picture from her friend's korean food blog.