I fear I’ll only be there in imagination and by phone. Not the world for traveling for oldsters like my husband and I. But, oh, how I wish I could go. Researching from afar is hard.
In the “old days” of the Henry Livingston research, I drove through the country finding obscure research institutions. Today it’s the phone.
A wonderful lady in your area inherited a packet of Jack Bell’s papers and photographs from her father-in-law and searched the internet to find me and then sent them all to me. Frustrating was a bunch of photos that I, at first, thought looked like a very changed, older Jack Bell. I’m now thinking they look like the Reno sheriff whose photo was in an article about the new gambling rules that Jack Bell wrote. The man was wearing a Reno badge, and Jack was a Verdi deputy sheriff. There’s only one older photo of Jack Bell beside Jack Dempsey, a friend of both Jack and the sheriff, and Jack there looks nothing like the photos the woman sent.
But the coffee sounds great!
The offer remains open should you need to do a tax deductible research expedition. Heck I might even run you and your husband up to the wild horse & burro rehabilitation center!
Who knows? ridesthemiles might even tag along...