[FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

Barry MacKichan barry.mackichan at mackichan.com
Mon Apr 29 12:34:46 EDT 2019


My wife worked for several years at the Rio Grande Archives, in the NMSU 
library. When asked, I said her job was to read other peoples’ mail.

--Barry

On 25 Apr 2019, at 19:16, Pamela McCorduck wrote:

> 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.
>
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>> 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
>>
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