Comments on: Julie’s Papers (1 of 2) [Updated]

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:50:10 +0000

Thanks, all. This has been a long-term, favorite project.

So many valuable papers are lost when someone dies — or a congregation moves to a new building — and there is so much to do so fast that it’s easier to throw out the papers than take time to examine them carefully. All of us should be on the lookout as parents and grandparents pass away. If you don’t have room to store it all until you can sort through it carefully, better to toss the used “stuff” than the old paper.

Part 2 comin’ right up.

By: Wilfried

Wilfried — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:43:31 +0000

Loved it, Ardis. Saving such a packet is like saving a lost hiker in the mountains. And I’m thinking about similar packets, covered under dust somewhere in an attic or basement of older Mormon church buildings across Europe, and imagining the day when the Church will built a new chapel, and dedicated young men & women will be asked to throughly clean out the old building before it will be sold, with a container in the street to throw everything in, and then, hopefully, hopefully, someone will …

By: manaen

manaen — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:31:42 +0000

I don’t mind a two-part post — just so the second part arrives by lunchtime today!

By: Kevin Barney

Kevin Barney — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:18:10 +0000

Wow, I’m on the edge of my seat. This is awesome. Don’t keep us waiting too long…

By: maria

maria — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:15:12 +0000

I can’t wait to hear more!

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:04:17 +0000

I love this series, Ardis. Thanks for giving us glimpses of women we wouldn’t know otherwise.

By: Proud Daughter of Eve

Proud Daughter of Eve — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:17:33 +0000

Keep ‘em coming Ardis, however many posts they take! :)

By: Kaimi Wenger

Kaimi Wenger — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:56:48 +0000

Ardis,

You clearly have no concept of the traditional length limits on T&S posts. :P

Actually, I like the two-parters. A well-crafted two-part post can be a lot of fun — and yours always deliver. :)

By: Jonathan Green

Jonathan Green — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:40:54 +0000

I don’t mind only getting this much, because what you have written is so cool. I thought I had to deal with ugly problems in paleography, but the quarter-turn triple-palimpsests are giving me headaches just thinking about them.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:08:18 +0000

Sorry about the two-parters indeed. The suspense is killing me.