Monthly Archives: September 2010

Archived astro-photos & the visual digitization of history

Posted on 09/30/2010 by Neal

One of the more enjoyable phases of writing a non-fiction book is reaching the home stretch and compiling photos. I’m not quite at that stage yet in my biography of Robert Ripley. (Although here’s a sampling of pics that’ll likely … Continue reading →

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Agatha Christie’s Notebooks

Posted on 09/21/2010 by Neal

In a recent New Yorker I read about the matron of mystery’s recently discovered notebooks, children’s school exercise books in which she worked out some of her novels’ plots. Some of the pages had already been scribbled on by her … Continue reading →

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End-of-summer updates – and an exhale

Posted on 09/15/2010 by Neal

So ends a summer of wackiness – house guests, van-driving kids around to skateparks, and the passing of a loved one. (One summer highlight was a road trip with my dad and two sons to Utah’s Zion & Bryce national … Continue reading →

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