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  • A Few Bold Predictions!

    A Few Bold Predictions!

    I’ve done about all I can to be ready.  It’s been four months of steady preparation, with the last month feeling a lot like a cattle drive! I have requested several dozen 400-year-old documents for viewing in five different archives, have planned stops at around a dozen historic sites (including 4 churches), have arranged around a dozen appointments, will be giving three presentations and have arranged three happy hours / mixers.  Now, it’s time to finish packing, relax, and settle into the reality that not everything is going to go my way.

    But there are some very interesting possibilities twinkling on the other side of that long plane ride!   This  seems like a good time to go on the record with a few predictions that just might work out…

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  • Heading Back to the UK! – April 2018

    Heading Back to the UK! – April 2018

    One year ago, it seemed high time to get serious about this quest. And I did.

    Publishing my research seemed the best way to provide the accountability to ensure I got the history right. And, since some things can only be done (or understood) in person, I decided I had to make a trip to London and Jersey a priority.  That trip (last May) was not only fascinating and rewarding, it threw gasoline on the fire of this project. And in the year since?  Somehow it seems in the nature of research that answering one question raises several new ones, so a year later my list of “in person” tasks is now even longer and more pressing than last year’s.

    My bucket list of other travel destinations will have to wait for some other year.  The UK is calling, and I must go!

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