Sunday Matinee: I think I need a lyric sheet
Written by Burl on September 9th, 2012CellPhoto: Rainy Days & T-Birds
Written by Burl on September 8th, 2012
Sunday Matinee: Men of Harlech
Written by Burl on August 26th, 2012Sunday Matinee: Psy Chotic
Written by Burl on August 19th, 2012Boots on the Ground …
Written by Burl on August 18th, 2012The Biggest Little Air Show at our museum on Ford Island is always fun. But we’re still at war, and today, in remembrance, there was a boot and a snapshot for each of our recently fallen. Thousands of boots. An acre of boots. There are times when I’d like to share a picture with Dick Cheney but he’s too busy enjoying the Halliburton dollars earned from government wartime contracts.
An update on the Pearl Harbor library situation
Written by Burl on July 24th, 2012I talked to NPS superintendent Paul DePrey today, and he was more encouraging about the Arizona Memorial/Pacific Historic Parks library situation. He was careful to point out that there is a difference between what they call the “library” and what they house in their “collection,” which are the artifacts, documents and other ephemera being preserved by park curators and historians.
According to DePrey, the library was simply some reference books they kept on hand for the in-house use of the staff. Although this is largely gone, they do still have some volumes, but DePrey says they’re nothing special, just generic Pearl Harbor books.
The collection, on the other hand, is boxed up and placed into deep storage at the Pacific Historic Parks warehouse. There is a plan afoot to house these items eventually in the new NOAA structure being constructed on Ford Island, along with NOAA’s own library. This is at least a couple of years off. So if you need to do research, hold your horses, and get a day pass to Ford Island, which isn’t easy for civilians. But there’s a plan in place, they say, never fear.
As for the library shelving and such, DePrey said that what was tossed wasn’t worth keeping, and the good stuff found homes elsewhere in the park. I’m hearing, though, that other office materials were canned. Government regs require an inventory and estimated value of disposed items, and it might be interesting to see what was dumpstered.
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