2007

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1/5/07 'Ruth I told you I need to loose weight-this shipment from Ft. Wayne does not leave me room to get in let along work.'

1/5/07 'See Ruth there is only about 8 inches between my desk & the books.'

4/17/07 Office at Storage is full of another shipment of City directories.

4/20/07 This is part of our trip to Boston, Copps Hill Cemetery with Old North Church steeple in the background.

4/20/07 Here is our friend and guide fellow book repair and conservator at NEHGS Deborah Rossi also a Park Ranger.

4/20/07 Late evening at Bunker Hill

4/22/07 Party time at NEHGS Ruth Bishop and Brinton Simons, CEO

4/22/07 Deborah Rossi discussing her display of preservation projects with one of the members.

4/22/07 Part of Deborah Rossi's display of her fine work, she is a real inspiration to me, as well as a wonderful mentor.

4/22/07 Janice M. Healy, Deborah L. Rossi and Jean McQuire

4/23/07 Janice Healy & Ruth Bishop with Ruth's Award at NEHGS founders Society luncheon.

4/26/07 This photo is the Connecticut State Capital on our way to the New England Area Regional Conference at Hartford, CT.

4/29/07 We will not forget this year's book buying trip because we got run out of the hotel by a small fire in an Exit sign/light at the Hartford Marriot Hotel.

5/3/07 More books have come in so there is no chance of resting up after that fabulous trip. These just came in and have to be cataloged and put away. We leave when for Virginia so Ruth can buy more books and go to the conference?

5/13/07 How little did we know what a wonderful book store was behind this wall.

5/13/07 Mary the Mother of George Washington

5/18/07 NGS Banquet night, Ruth having fun with our entertainment he was a great actor.

5/20/07 There was construction everywhere in Richmond but site seeing was a must.

5/20/07 Anchor from the C.S.S. Virginia in front of museum of the Confederacy where we found wonderful Civil War books in the Gift shop and fantastic displays in the Museum.

5/21/07 Ok, time out for some research at the Library of Virginia and archives. Call slip for the copies of the original Douglas Register. Yes you can use a digital camera just no flash. This record is available only in a very old Photostat copy. Which they will not let you photo copy. So Janice got permission to use her camera for it so long as she didn't use the flash.

5/21/07 Found them! Jo. WADE Married Sussanna BOWLES both of Goochland 1770. As you can see these records are not easy to read.

5/22/07 Known burials

5/22/07 This photo is an overview of part of James Town and the James River.

5/22/07 This is the Archaearium with the old state house foundations from 1643 in front of it. More wonderful books in this gift shop so Ruth really had fun.

5/23/07 Janice's WADE Family lived right in this area and are supposed to be buried on the Tuckahoe Plantation in the late 1700's early 1800's.

5/24/07 Thomas Jefferson's home

5/24/07 Thomas Jefferson's Vegetable gardens as he planted them per historical records found at the plantation. These are located below the house and slave quarters.

5/24/07 A small section of the large graveyard on the Thomas Jefferson plantation

6/7/07 Well it is time to get back to work now that the shipments of books have arrived. These need to be cataloged, sorted and shelved.

6/16/07 All are sorted and ready to be shelved.

6/16/07 All in a day's work now to get this mess cleaned up and the book truckloads of sorted books shelved.

6/21/07 7:23 AM We need room desperately, so it is time to clear out some of the over flow so Janice is loading Zane's old pickup. Thank you Zane for letting us use it.

6/21/07 8:28 AM All wrapped up.

6/21/07 8:38 AM All roped in and ready to roll.

6/21/07 This is Janice's favorite part of a hard job. This is Ralph at Stewart Stiles Warehouse with the forklift with the extra long forks. He is lifting the load off of the pickup. The only way to move about 1,500 lbs of books!

6/21/07 12:07 PM Janice has another load ready to go out to the big warehouse. Last load of the day as the warehouse closes before Janice can get another load up there.

6/28/07 Focus on Book Arts Conference in Forest Grove, the class learning how to build enclosures. This is just one of many kinds that Janice made that day.

7/3/07 Today we just got our board cutter. This is used to cut the book boards used in rebinding books and making storage containers.

7/20/07 Covers and spines off of books are a typical book repair problem, and this one has had bugs chewing on it too, yes it spent the spring in the freezer in a plastic bag. We don't want bugs hatching.

7/20/07 Another part of the repair problems of this book, and very typical is crumbling glue and broken stitching, this will be stripped down at some point, re-sewn and glued and rebound in a new cover using portions of the old cover if possible for the title.

8/13/07 Some Exploring of the ancestral home west of Fort Wayne, we are here early for the NGS conference. This was Great, Great Grandparents home about 100 years after it was built. Obedeah Jefferson WADE his wife Caroline HOLT lived here.

8/17/07 FGS Conference in Fort Wayne Indiana Awards banquet, Ruth Bishop, Sharon Lass Field & Windy Elliot. They are giving out the award for the living Volunteer of the year to Sharon.

10/19/07 Large home made book press with a very large book that had just been bound.

12/5/07 We ended the year with a trip to Salt Lake City for book buying, and a tour with Leland Meitzler and friends. Christmas lights in Temple Square

12/5/07 Hum how to build one of these great film winders.

12/6/07 Ok so that is how they keep it from free wheeling

12/7/07 This is our tour group

12/7/07 Come on Leland lets go play in the snow with our cameras.

12/8/07 Ruth heading to the library. Hey Janice it is snowing.

12/8/07 Here is Leland Meitzler who did all the work so we could have so much fun all week. This is at the end of the last day party.