GDG- Gettysburg books

Tue Sep 4 12:24:39 CDT 2007

GDG Members:

I have two bookshelves full of books on the civil war.  A total of 45 on
GB.  Guess I better start catching up.

Todd Heller

Ewing, Twp.

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   1. Re: books on Gettysburg (Biggsk at aol.com)

   2. Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (IDunc at aol.com)

   3. RE: Re: books on Gettysburg (Bob Huddleston)

   4. News release from GBPA (thepurd at comcast.net)

   5. RE: How many Gettysburg books? (J. David Petruzzi)

   6. RE: Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

      (waltermolly at earthlink.net)

   7. RE: How many Gettysburg books? (waltermolly at earthlink.net)

   8. Re: Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (Batrinque at aol.com)

   9. Re: How many Gettysburg books? (Batrinque at aol.com)

  10. Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (David W. Gaddy)

  11. Re: How many Gettysburg books? (Batrinque at aol.com)

  12. Re: Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (Batrinque at aol.com)

  13. RE: How many Gettysburg books? (Joy, Mark)

  14. RE: Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (Anthony W. Christ)

  15. RE: Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4 (Tom Ryan)

  16. If I could only keep one! (Tom Ryan)

  17. RE: How many Gettysburg books? (Tom Ryan)

  18. How many Gettysburg books? (Steven Floyd)

  19. Book acquisition tip (Tom Ryan)

  20. Top ten focus (Tom Ryan)

  21. Re: Top ten focus (Alan D. Brunelle)

  22. Re: Top ten focus (Dennis Lawrence)

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Message: 1

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 23:18:50 EDT

From: Biggsk at aol.com

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Hello,

Well I went and counted and for a committed Western Theater guy I have
41  GB 

books (not including the OR which I have a complete set as well as the
naval  

ORs which I did get for free along with my set of Confederate Veteran).

By contrast I counted those for the Atlanta Campaign, which is my
favorite  

campaign of the war, and came up with 77, and that's not counting the OR

volumes nor any March to the Sea books.

My collection on all aspects of the war in Georgia reaches well over 200

books - maybe higher - including regimentals, books on cities of GA,  

Chickamauga, etc.

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Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 23:30:11 EDT

From: IDunc at aol.com

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Walter, would your wife consider 33 feet of book shelves in the
bathroom?

Tom,

Wow, a great gift! I agree that using the paper copies is  so MUCH
better

than online or a CD-ROM. Sigh, now if I could only convince  my wife
that

the bathroom remodeling can wait.   :^)

Walter

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Message: 3

Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 21:46:18 -0600

From: "Bob Huddleston" <huddleston.r at comcast.net>

Subject: RE: GDG- Re: books on Gettysburg

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143 not counting the ORs 

Take care,

Bob

Judy and Bob Huddleston

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Message: 4

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:54:01 +0000

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Subject: GDG- News release from GBPA

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News Release

Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association

PO Box 4087

986 Hanover Road

Gettysburg, PA 17325

Ghost conference scares up Lady Farm donation

Gettysburg, Sept. 2 -- It was no apparition when the organizers of the
first annual Ghost World Conference pledged to donate proceeds from
raffles to the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association for the
restoration of the farmhouse of the Daniel Lady Farm.

In all 1,210 "dead presidents" were presented to GBPA board
member-emeritus Mark Nesbitt himself the author of the Ghost of
Gettysburg series.

More than 300 paranormal enthusiasts from the U.S. and Canada attended
the late July conference in Gettysburg that includes lectures, workshops
and discussions.

"This was as especially pleasant surprise because the donation off came
from 'out of the blue," said GBPA President Kathi Schue. "Jeff Belanger
of Ghost World, LLC, called and told me that in organizing the
conference, they had looked into worthy historic causes in Gettysburg
where their donation could make a big difference and that a number of
people had told him about the Lady Farm."

"You can't study ghosts without also exploring history," said Vince
Wilson, one of the founding partners of Ghost World, LLC, "and if we can
help the GBPA continue their great work in some small way, that alone
makes our weekend conference a big success."

One aspect of the Lady farmhouse that the conference organizers found
especially intriguing is the plethora of bloodstains on the floors of
some rooms where wounded an dying Confederates were treated.

The Ghost World donation was a one-time benefit for the GBPA. Next
year's Ghost World Conference will be held in Salem, Massachusetts and
the raffle will benefit a historic preservation cause there. 

GBPA is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization that was founded in

1959 as the first public/private partnership at Gettysburg. The GBPA has
played a continuous role in purchasing endangered battlefield land such
as the Meals Farm, Timbers Farm, Wolf Farm, Taney Farm, the Colgrove
tract, the Willoughby Run tract, the East Cavalry Field tract, and other
parcels to save them from have been saved from development and
commercialism. The GBPA has a web site at www.gbpa.org.

Ghost World Conference Web site: www.ghostworldconference.com.

###

Contact: Jay Purdy w: 717-787-7895 h: 717-540-5534 

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Message: 5

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 01:23:18 -0400

From: "J. David Petruzzi" <jaydee at pennswoods.net>

Subject: RE: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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Yeesh.  Wow.  I thought I was crazy (or maybe that's the wife who thinks

that) - just counted 258.  That's counting multivolumes as one.

J.D.

J. David Petruzzi

My blog: http://petruzzi.wordpress.com

My book: http://www.stuartsride.com

>>Well, Tom, I'd never counted before but I just did and thetotasl is,
ah,

um, eh, oo, oh, hey there, ah......................318.

Walter>>

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Message: 6

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:34:31 -0400

From: "waltermolly at earthlink.net" <waltermolly at earthlink.net>

Subject: RE: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............I wonder how I could bring THAT up?  

> [Original Message]

> From: <IDunc at aol.com>

> To: <gettysburg at arthes.com>

> Date: 9/3/2007 11:31:56 PM

> Subject: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:

> 

> 

>  

> Walter, would your wife consider 33 feet of book shelves in the
bathroom?

> 

> Tom,

> 

> Wow, a great gift! I agree that using the paper copies is  so MUCH
better

> than online or a CD-ROM. Sigh, now if I could only convince  my wife
that

> the bathroom remodeling can wait.   :^)

> 

> Walter

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

> 

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Message: 7

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:36:35 -0400

From: "waltermolly at earthlink.net" <waltermolly at earthlink.net>

Subject: RE: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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J.D,

SWell, ya know, a little craziness never hurts.....:^)

Walter

> [Original Message]

> From: J. David Petruzzi <jaydee at pennswoods.net>

> To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>

> Date: 9/4/2007 1:24:53 AM

> Subject: RE: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

> 

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:

> 

> 

> Yeesh.  Wow.  I thought I was crazy (or maybe that's the wife who
thinks

> that) - just counted 258.  That's counting multivolumes as one.

> 

> J.D.

> 

> J. David Petruzzi

> My blog: http://petruzzi.wordpress.com

> My book: http://www.stuartsride.com

> 

> 

> 

> >>Well, Tom, I'd never counted before but I just did and thetotasl is,
ah,

> um, eh, oo, oh, hey there, ah......................318.

> 

> Walter>>

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Message: 8

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:53:04 EDT

From: Batrinque at aol.com

Subject: Re: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

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In a message dated 9/3/2007 11:33:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  

IDunc at aol.com writes:

Wow, a  great gift! I agree that using the paper copies is  so MUCH
better

than online or a CD-ROM. 

While I would say that paper copies are much better for browsing (I wish
I  

had sufficient bookshelf space available for my set of ORs complete for
AOP  

campaigns) the ORs on CD beat them hands down for searching for names
and terms  

(Brent Nosworthy literally could not have written "Bloody Crucible"
without 

the  CD search feature -- as I can well attest from innumerable phone
calls 

from  Brent before he purchased a CD set of his own).   What you really
want  is 

a complete paper set AND a CD version.

Bruce  Trinque

Amston, CT

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Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:10:12 EDT

From: Batrinque at aol.com

Subject: Re: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

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There might be a few strays about that I missed, but I came up with 68
on  

Getttysburg (not counting my thankfully complete set of Gettysburg
Magazine).  

When it comes to the CW, my primary focus is not on G'burg, so  most of
my CW 

books are about other AOP campaigns or tactics.  

Bruce  Trinque

Amston, CT

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Message: 10

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:14:39 -0400

From: "David W. Gaddy" <dwgaddy at crosslink.net>

Subject: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

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Ref Topic 1, "How Many Gettysburg Books?" (Tom Ryan)

OK, Tom, you stirred the interest. Let me suggest a variant or 

follow-on: You must divest yourself of 74 of your books (or 96 of 

97). Which one do you keep, and why?

Dave Gaddy

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

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>Since business has been kind of slow on the GDG these days, thought I
would

>throw this out for fun and games.  Who has the most books about
Gettysburg

>on their shelves?

> 

>My count is 75 including hard and soft backs, non-fiction and fiction.
This

>includes booklets like the ones sold at the Farnsworth House, and those
put

>out by the Gettysburg Foundation.  It also includes novels, but not

>magazines or guide books.

> 

>Seventy-five sounds like a lot, but there will undoubtedly be a number
of

>people who have more.

> 

>Tom

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Message: 11

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:26:48 EDT

From: Batrinque at aol.com

Subject: Re: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: gettysburg at arthes.com

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In a message dated 9/4/2007 8:12:54 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  

Batrinque at aol.com writes:

There  might be a few strays about that I missed, but I came up with 68
on   

Getttysburg

And immediately after sending this I came up with 3 more.  No. make
that 4 

more - I had forgotten the US War College Guide to Gettysburg.  No,  5
more, I 

had also forgotten ...  

Bruce  Trinque

Amston, CT

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Message: 12

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:29:12 EDT

From: Batrinque at aol.com

Subject: Re: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

To: gettysburg at arthes.com

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In a message dated 9/4/2007 8:17:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  

dwgaddy at crosslink.net writes:

OK, Tom,  you stirred the interest. Let me suggest a variant or 

follow-on: You must  divest yourself of 74 of your books (or 96 of 

97). Which one do you keep,  and why?

In what did you major in college?  Torture?

Bruce  Trinque

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Message: 13

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 07:48:20 -0500

From: "Joy, Mark" <joy at jc.edu>

Subject: RE: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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I are a colej perfessor and teach one course on the Civil War, so I am

ashamed to admit I only have about 30 Gettysburg books.  However, in my

defense, thanks to this list I have collected some of the top picks,

although I'm learning about some more from these suggestions of the top

ten.

Mark S. Joy

Jamestown College

Jamestown, North Dakota

joy at jc.edu

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Message: 14

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 08:49:38 -0400

From: "Anthony W. Christ" <genreynolds at jfrs.org>

Subject: RE: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

To: "'GDG'" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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Eric Wittenberg turned me on to the OR's on cd a few years ago and I
have

never looked back. I've been working on the issue of John Reynolds
having

two signal officers assigned to him. If it were not for the cd edition I

would still be scouring the paper versions.

Books are a wonderful thing, but I would rather have everything I can
find

on disc. It's much faster to find items in a rush.

BTW, we just returned from a long weekend in Gettysburg. We did a few
things

we have not had the time to do in the past (every time I go out without
the

uniform, I become more inspired to leave the uniform at home). The
Shriver

house for instance. What a great tour! I imagine most of you have had
the

chance to do the tour, but if not, add it to your list.

Sharon and I took a self guided tour of the farms of Gettysburg. It was
an

awesome learning experience from the civilian point of view. I had not
known

that so many reimbursement claims went unpaid by the Federal Government.

The ghost tours were of course in full swing. It seems like ghosts are
what

bring the tourists to Gettysburg these days. 

Anthony    

John Fulton Reynolds Society

To Preserve the memory of our fallen Hero...

http://www.jfrs.org

genreynolds at jfrs.org

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Message: 15

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:14:47 -0400

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

Subject: RE: GDG- Re: Gettysburg Digest, Vol 40, Issue 4

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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<<While I would say that paper copies are much better for browsing (I
wish I

had sufficient bookshelf space available for my set of ORs complete for
AOP

campaigns) the ORs on CD beat them hands down for searching for names
and

terms

(Brent Nosworthy literally could not have written "Bloody Crucible"
without

the  CD search feature -- as I can well attest from innumerable phone
calls

from  Brent before he purchased a CD set of his own).   What you really
want

is

a complete paper set AND a CD version.>>

Bruce,

Interesting.  Why is that?  It sounds like you are saying the CD search

feature is more capable of locating items (names, places, etc.) in the
OR

than are contained in the OR General Index.  Is that what you have found
to

be the case?

Could you elaborate on what was going on in Brent Nosworthy's situation,
and

how the CD search capability aided him in his work?

Regards, Tom

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Message: 16

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:20:04 -0400

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

Subject: GDG- If I could only keep one!

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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<<OK, Tom, you stirred the interest. Let me suggest a variant or

follow-on: You must divest yourself of 74 of your books (or 96 of

97). Which one do you keep, and why?>>

Dave, no question it would be OR, vol. 27 (3 books).  It I have to
choose

among those three, it would be Volume 3 (Union and Confederate

correspondence).  Can't function without it.

Regards, Tom

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Message: 17

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:22:49 -0400

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

Subject: RE: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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<<There  might be a few strays about that I missed, but I came up with
68 on

Getttysburg

And immediately after sending this I came up with 3 more.  No. make
that 4

more - I had forgotten the US War College Guide to Gettysburg.  No,  5
more,

I

had also forgotten ...>>

It is difficult to pin down isn't it.  Gettysburg books seem to keep
popping

up in different places.  When I need them I know where they are, but

counting them is a whole other matter.

Tom

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Message: 18

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:27:44 -0700

From: "Steven Floyd" <SFloyd at rapidoffice.com>

Subject: GDG- How many Gettysburg books?

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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I was surprised when I counted, but 202 on GB.  Not including GB Mag and
other assorted pamphlets.

I have a copy of the Boston Cyclorama booklet from the 1880's, no actual
date on it.  Didn't count that as a Gettysburg book.

And so much more to read!

Steve

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Message: 19

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:13:55 -0400

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

Subject: GDG- Book acquisition tip

To: "GDG" <gettysburg at gdg.org>

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Here's a tip on a possible source of free or inexpensive CW books

(Gettysburg and otherwise).  About a year ago at our local library, I

noticed that the CW book shelves had been cleaned out by half or more.
What

happened was the librarians had weeded out books that were not
circulating.

By this time, these books had already disappeared into the periodic book

sale at the library.

I requested the librarian to notify me the next time they weeded the CW

shelf, so that I could purchase the excess items (usually they sell for

about $1 at the book sale).  As a result I have since received four or
five

discarded CW books from the library, and am looking forward to getting
more.

Check with your local library.  It may be a good source.

Tom

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Message: 20

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:33:38 -0400

From: "Tom Ryan" <pennmardel at mchsi.com>

Subject: GDG- Top ten focus

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>From the top ten lists so far, it looks like the main focus is on the

three-day battle rather than the two-month long campaign.  I happen to
lean

toward the idea that a true understanding of the battle can only occur

within the larger framework of the entire campaign (June 3 to late

July-early August).  In other words, to only study the battle turns out
to

be an academic exercise, while to research the entire campaign provides
a

broader perspective of the impact of the Battle of Gettysburg on the war
as

a whole.

Hasten to add there is nothing wrong with simply enjoying the battle as
an

academic exercise.

Any thoughts?

Tom

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Message: 21

Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:38:49 -0400

From: "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle at hp.com>

Subject: Re: GDG- Top ten focus

To: GDG <gettysburg at arthes.com>

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Tom Ryan wrote:

> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:

> 

> 

> >From the top ten lists so far, it looks like the main focus is on the

> three-day battle rather than the two-month long campaign.  I happen to
lean

> toward the idea that a true understanding of the battle can only occur

> within the larger framework of the entire campaign (June 3 to late

> July-early August).  In other words, to only study the battle turns
out to

> be an academic exercise, while to research the entire campaign
provides a

> broader perspective of the impact of the Battle of Gettysburg on the
war as

> a whole.

> 

> Hasten to add there is nothing wrong with simply enjoying the battle
as an

> academic exercise.

> 

> Any thoughts?

> 

> Tom

> 

>   

Hi Tom -

The original posted question referred specifically to the battle: "What 

would be considered the top ten books on the battle that someone should 

have in their library?" So that's why I think responses on the whole 

have been that way.

I would say that opening it up to include the whole campaign would 

certainly make the task a lot harder...

It's sort of like the question a couple of years ago that was never 

really answered: "What are the top 10 articles in The Gettysburg 

Magazine?" How the heck could one do /that/?!?

Alan

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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:03:08 -0600

From: Dennis Lawrence <denlaw at fone.net>

Subject: Re: GDG- Top ten focus

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At 09:33 AM 9/4/2007, you wrote:

>  In other words, to only study the battle turns out to

>be an academic exercise, while to research the entire campaign provides
a

>broader perspective of the impact of the Battle of Gettysburg on the
war as

>a whole.

Hello,

An excellent point.  I would also add that to study the campaign with
out 

studying the social issues that surround the battle and were left in the

wake of the battle  make it an academic exercise well.

How about  a count of the number of books that we all own that  deal
solely 

with the soci0-cultural aspect of the battle?  I am away from my 

collection, but I would suspect I have less than a dozen on that
(probably 

30 or 40 general works).  Certainly the books on the citizens of 

Gettysburg, or the hospitals at Gettysburg, or analyzing Lincoln at 

Gettysburg would fit into that category.  Tom Desjarden's book
analyzing 

the effect of Gettysburg in American Memory would fit the bill as well.

Take Care

Dennis 

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