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Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German background, since "Kaiser" is the German word for emperor. (One of my German colleagues is named Kaiser too). And a few pages later I read that they are indeed descendants of German immigrants. Fascinating. It was also interesting to read about the USS Baltimore. I like the idea of writing down the story of the own family to preserve it for future generations. The digital world is so short-lived and temporary. Cheers, Jochen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history.
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It doesn't have to be a big piece of national history if it is well told, which is of course an art. I think Robert McKee's book "Story" contains a lot of good ideas. It also depends if you have good material, for example personal journals or diaries. Personal journals are priceless. The part on page 6/7 where a journal entry is a quoted feels real and authentic, a bit as if you experience "Wild Cat Creek" yourself. -------- Original message -------- From: Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]> Date: 4/26/19 01:16 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy
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Frank - I'm glad to see a resurgence of interest in your memoir. It is a
testimony to the ease of self-publication that you were able to do
this so well and seamlessly. I don't know what kind of editing
help you had but the result was very good for something
self-published. Typography, layout, spelling, and even grammar
"expertise" have been significantly addressed by modern electronic
publishing, but proper editing is a bit trickier. I suppose there
will soon be AI's capable of editing various genre's to a certain
degree. - Steve On 4/25/19 5:16 PM, Pamela McCorduck
wrote:
Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Thanks for your comments, Jochen and Pam. When he mentions the quotation on pages 6 and 7 Jochen is referring to a journal my great-grandmother wrote as she was traveling by covered wagon on the Santa Fe Trail in 1877. As for appreciation by family members, some of my cousins were thrilled. It amazes me how little the rest of my family knows about our history and origins. I guess they just weren't interested when our parents and grandparents told their stories. At least they don't argue with me the way my grandfather and his siblings did Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 2:33 PM Jochen Fromm <[hidden email]> wrote:
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I am in the midst of copy-editing my partner's (Mary) own memoir
of about 300 pages, she has been a spotty journal keeper
throughout her adult life, but the sections where she IS able to
include quotes from "that moment" are acutely real. She is also
a poet, so various poems written at those moments or inspired by
the events add another dimension. My own grandfather was a chronic journaler, starting at age 18 with a small pocket-journal he scribbled observations in from Europe at the end of WWI. It is shockingly real to see the pencil marks this man made a good 60 years before I ever saw them. I was told I reminded people a lot of him, though all I knew of him in person was a "grumpy old man" that I only saw every few years. I think he was 60 when I was born. He was not particularly introspective, but a lifetime of observations about the world around him painted a picture as much of the artist as the subjects. As part of this exercise, we have read a lot of memoirs and memoiresque essays, mostly by poets and other writers who are reflecting on their own writing process. I have been very impressed with these self-expose's. Stephen King's "On Writing" and several of Mary Karr's memoiresque collections come to mind. - Steve On 4/25/19 2:33 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:
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In one of life’s surprises, one of our daughters sent us something she found through Google (but not ancestor.com), a document about 75 pages long, author currently unknown, that tells stories of my wife’s ancestors back to the late 18th century and ends with her grandparents and their siblings (so we have a chance of reconstructing who the author is). In those cases where its stories coincide with what my wife heard from her grandmother, it seems very accurate. The document has been OCRed, and parts of it look like it was OCRed from handwritten copy. It is a challenge to figure out some of the words, but fortunately they are consistent and become a new vocabulary (almost all ‘m’s become ‘!v’). --Barry On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
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My wife worked for several years at the Rio Grande Archives, in the NMSU library. When asked, I said her job was to read other peoples’ mail. --Barry On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
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