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GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Sister Francis Louise Honeychuck helped her mother clean a...

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Sister Francis Louise Honeychuck helped her mother clean a...

Sister Francis Louise Honeychuck helped her mother clean a casket factory in Scottdale and watched over the two youngest of her five siblings after her father died in the 1918 flu pandemic, just before she turned 4. “I recall picking up oodles of straight pins off the chairs, floor, anywhere,”

1 August 2012 - 12:00 From the outset, digital preservation and conservation seem to be two very different professions. This paper explores the idea that both traditional and digital conservators not only have many commonalties but also an invaluable knowledge bank of their own areas of expertise, which should be shared between these seemingly distinct communities. Preservation Services and the Digital Preservation team from the National Library of Australia (NLA) discuss the commonalities betw...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Bible was stained and worn, with missing pages and detached covers and an exposed spine. Phil Handy had found it in his aunt’s Florida attic, wrapped in thin brown paper. The book was unassuming, the size of a fat brick. But for years, Handy had heard rumors of a family Bible dating back to the Revolutionary War and containing handwritten genealogy information, including dates of birth. “The thought immediately flashed — could this be it?” Handy said. ...

Where? Online (via Zoom webinar) The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library, a BHL Affiliate, presents this symposium in collaboration with the Caxton Club as the capstone event for a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to conserve and digitize language of flower genre editions. Over the three-year grant period, 62 rare and unique language of flowers volumes published in the 19th century are being conserved and digitized by expert staff at the Northeast Document Cons...

EASTHAM — Joseph Mistretta was dusting off some framed documents in the corner of the archive room at Eastham Historical Society when he found what could be a priceless document. The piece of paper was an official recognition of the appointment of Elijah Knowles as Justice of the Peace in Barnstable County. Dated June 7, 1785, the document was signed by the Governor of Massachusetts, Samuel Adams. Society President Eileen Seaboldt recalled the moment Mistretta, the societys director, showed h...