This past October, I took ten copies of my Maier Zunder paper which I had bound and printed by lulu.com to New Haven and gave them out. I came back with very few copies. I just ordered some more. I found some minor errors in some footnotes, that I will have to correct by hand.
This photo taken by Dennis shows me with the archivist Jim Campbell. He asked me to sign a form acknowledging that I was contributing my book as a gift. We're standing in the reading room at the 'Colony', the local name for the New Haven Historical Society. I think it used to be the New Haven Colony Historical Society. Jim has been very helpful to me, too bad he's retiring at the end of the year!
I've mentioned before the comparison of the homes for the Colony and the Ethnic Heritage Center. It's hard to put that aside though I and others involved are very grateful for the existence of the Ethnic Heritage Center. Here we are in the handsome reading room of the Colony.
I'm going to write about my confusion about Louis Zunder in the 19th century. I was going through the pictures, sometimes something just jumps out at me. This picture did maybe because we are doing real work here. Is it a 'real' book or not? These days, the distinction blurs. I wrote a paper, put an impressive cover picture and called it a book. Certainly the archivist here thought it was real enough and is showing me respect (in my mind) by accepting the book and asking me to sign the gift form.
As I continue to process the death of my parents. What would they have thought of this? I know my mother would have been pleased. My father also, I think. It would it have been trickier to have him discount it, though he likely would have tried. He never wanted to give me the satisfaction. Then he would have bragged about it to his friends. Those family dynamics.
But here's some validation, real work of value.
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