Scrapbook paper gets a home

Heard from my editor from "Connecticut History Review"  I had pitched a piece on the Maier Zunder scrapbook for the Research Notes section of the journal.  These are shorter pieces about resources available to historians.  She said she would be interested.  I submitted a much shorter piece.  I tried to do some sort of quantitative analysis of the contents.  I just couldn't figure out where it fit in.  But I thought it might work.

This was for the Spring 2015 issue and spring is getting on.  I heard last night from her with edits and tasks.  I had an out of date citation and needed better quality graphics.  She really changed the order of the components. Completely different order of my 1300 words.  She took out one paragraph that I was thinking of deleting anyway.  But it works, it works fine.  So I'm going with it.  She added an ending sentence that was a bit weak. 

I have some time here so I'll see if I can think of a better ending sentence.  I've done most of the tasks already.

I'm pleased; really pleased.  I'm beyond a late bloomer in the field of academic publishing. So I'll be taking every advantage I can find.

Picture taken of Ceceilia Bucki, Editor of Connecticut History Review holding up the journal. 

Photoessay #2895 - Chilly Atlantic Beach

Actually I think it's Long Island Sound.  It was pretty chilly last week in Fairfield, CT.  Especially the first day; temps in the low 40s.  We usually don't use a GPS thingie  but we had my cousin's Garman.  Good because, even though Fairfield is not a big place, the roads are really confusing.  Especially around our hotel.  I don't think we ever mastered it.

But we saw a sign for a beach so, in our wandering way, we went to check it out.  Cold, windy.  But kinda pretty.

Photoessay #2893 - Fairfield University

The conference this last weekend was at Fairfield University, a Jesuit school in the prosperous town of Fairfield on Long Island Sound thirty miles closer to New York than New Haven.  I was expecting something more 'New Englandy'.  The houses around it certainly have that look.  Now, nothing is in bloom or even starting to green up in New England right now.  Mary Ann called this style of boxy buildings in yellow brick as being influenced by the Yale School of Architecture.

A view from a turn around.  The building in the center background has the history offices on the top floor and I used one of the classrooms on the first floor for my presentation.  The building on the left housed the conference proper.  You really can't see the auditorium we used; it's around to the right.

I'm not quite ready to give up this daily blog.  But sometimes I feel it fading.