[FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

[Jochen Fromm]

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.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. 
-------- Original message --------From: Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> Date: 4/26/19  01:16  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy 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.On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote: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.Cheers,Jochen============================================================FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listservMeets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's Collegeto unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.comarchives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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