[Oe List ...] Detective work in the Global Archives

[Lynda C]

Karen,  just back from Greensboro.  About an hour and a half visit with the Stovers and then a visit with April and her daughter Lauryn, our bonus grandchild, who recently turned 20.  She was in a crisis mode in January and hospitalized after an attempt on her life.  She is in therapy now and trying to get things moving in a new direction.   This was our first visit with her and we felt good about it, although the illness wasn’t discussed.  According to her mother, she is out of a toxic relationship and trying to get out of town away from the fellow.  Hope that works.

Nelson is not well by any means, but has 3 more chemo’s to go through.  More side effects as you can imagine.  But he’s giving it a go at this point. Still pushing to get things done.   Glad we could visit.

Just did a quick run through  (about an hour) to see if I saw anything that I thought John might have written.  I wish I had made notes as I went along.  There was one that talked about a train in India which I shared a few snippets with John but he doesn’t have any memory of that experience.  I can’t recall the topic of the summer.  Wonder if it was the summer I stayed in Indonesia working on doing an audit of the chicken business books for the USAID grant. Or the summer I did the summer E. G. camp with John Gibson?  What was the Spirit Theme of the Summer?

I did wonder how I could get these talks on to my old  I -Pad and read them one at a time at Meals.  I also looked for clues about who was assigned at places mentioned.  One talk was by a woman who was about 45 and a teacher.  I wondered about Christine Harris, since it mentioned. “Mrs. Harris” in a retort from the student who was taunting her as he  jumped on a window ledge.  Another  talk mentioned cancer at 34.

I’ll begin to look closer at them.  Wonder if they could be matched up with any recorded tapes (Paul Evans tapes for example.)and we could do voice identification ….or maybe the person recording listed the speaker.

However, what you have done is to invite people to dig into them, so I hope you get lots of feedback.  When I read some again, I will take clue notes.

Thank you so much for all you are doing.

Lynda







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Reply-To: Karen Snyder <ksnyder at ica-usa.org>, OE List <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
Date: Monday, February 20, 2023 at 9:40 AM
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Cc: Karen Snyder <karen.snyder10 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Detective work in the Global Archives

As reported in January, there were ten people who participated in the Archives Sojourn for two weeks after Christmas. They uncovered files for scanning:  revisiting Uptown Chicago community work, six projects in Latin America, India - and other subjects here and there.  The Archives is indebted to Ed Feldmanis for his commitment to scan the files into PDFs (scanning approximately 12 hours a week). After files are scanned, Wendell Refior turns the PDFs into links for adding to the Archives website. Alan Gammel and myself then add the links to the website - although we are ‘a bit’ behind at the moment.

A recently scanned treasure are the 15 spirit talks that were done at the 1981 Global Council.  Were you there?  The DETECTIVE WORK at this point is:
1.  to identify the messengers giving these talks. At that time names were not added to the talks to identify the speakers.  It would be great to reveal who they were.
2.  Even to make a list of the people who were giving talks that summer would be special without knowing which ones they gave.
3.  It would also be a gift if you commented about how you experience the address of any of these talks today as you read them.
4.  What else comes to your mind?

Enjoy the talks:

The Five Great Talks:  https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/23996.pdf.  (#675-679)

The Spirit Talks:  https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/23987.pdf.  (#669-684, minus the five great talks above)
The Vocational Journey   ….  The Memory of the Spirit   ….  Disorientation of Expenditure
Compulsion of Authenticity   ….   Non-Rationality of Community   ….  Etc   ...

Peace,

Karen
On behalf of the Global Archives Team
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