<div dir="auto">Thanks for your comments, Jochen and Pam. When he mentions the quotation on pages 6 and 7 Jochen is referring to a journal my great-grandmother wrote as she was traveling by covered wagon on the Santa Fe Trail in 1877.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As for appreciation by family members, some of my cousins were thrilled. It amazes me how little the rest of my family knows about our history and origins. I guess they just weren't interested when our parents and grandparents told their stories. At least they don't argue with me the way my grandfather and his siblings did</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank</div><div dir="auto"><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 2:33 PM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>It doesn't have to be a big piece of national history if it is well told, which is of course an art. I think Robert McKee's book "Story" contains a lot of good ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>It also depends if you have good material, for example personal journals or diaries. Personal journals are priceless. The part on page 6/7 where a journal entry is a quoted feels real and authentic, a bit as if you experience "Wild Cat Creek" yourself. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Pamela McCorduck <<a href="mailto:pamela@well.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pamela@well.com</a>> </div><div>Date: 4/26/19 01:16 (GMT+01:00) </div><div>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">friam@redfish.com</a>> </div><div>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy </div><div><br></div></div>Your kids, and especially your grandchildren, will so appreciate this kind of memoir. Often, local historical societies welcome a copy too, because the memoir is fine-grained enough to appeal to somebody doing local history, even if it isn’t a big piece of national history.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-5409037756591023133Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><div>Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German background, since "Kaiser" is the German word for emperor. (One of my German colleagues is named Kaiser too). And a few pages later I read that they are indeed descendants of German immigrants. Fascinating. It was also interesting to read about the USS Baltimore. I like the idea of writing down the story of the own family to preserve it for future generations. The digital world is so short-lived and temporary.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Jochen</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="m_-5409037756591023133composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>============================================================<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<br>to unsubscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>archives back to 2003: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> by Dr. Strangelove<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>============================================================<br>
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