Each day I watch to see how high the granite is on the side of the temple. It is coming along beautifully! The members here are so excited! There is a lot of interest by others too. We are asked often about when it is going to be done (fall of 2016) and what takes place there. They are usually quite surprised that it will be closed on Sundays and there is a meeting house being built across the street.
This is the foundation of the meeting house. Just beyond is where they are digging (blasting through the granite) for the new church owned high rise which will be 34 stories of apartments and retail on the ground level.
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With the prospects of a Family History Center being established here and new equipment being brought in to the library, there has been a call for local volunteers to prepare to fill needed assignments. The Burnetts from nearby Maryland came in one day to see what we do here and learn what they may be able to do. We gave them a tour and showed them what we do. We had them do some inventory and scanning too. Barbara Burnett is a stake index leader and was impressed with the quality of the library's card catalog and commented that they would be easy to index. Soon there will be a couple come in, perhaps next month, and scan all of the card catalog. Perhaps she will be one who will be instrumental in getting the indexing work done.
There isn't room or work for more that just us right now, but there will be opportunities coming soon.
We pass this fountain on the way to the library every day. When they turned it off last fall for the season, I watched for the day when it would come back on, then I would know it was spring. It came on a couple of weeks ago. It is at the Comcast Building. The new Comcast tower they are building is in the background. It will be the tallest building in Philly when it is done.
We celebrated Jerrol's birthday on Friday, the 15th by taking a walk through Macy's and then going to dinner at a nice restaurant. Macy's is an amazing department store. We had heard about the organ recitals they have every Sunday and on special occasions, so it was fun to see. It is a beautiful pipe organ.
You can see the organ keyboard on the side.
It's quite a fancy store.
"Meet me at the Eagle."
An interesting little bit of history.
Jerrol's birthday dinner was at Del Frisco Double Eagle Steak House. We had an amazing salad with avocado/ranch dressing and two large slices of bacon on top. He had mushroom soup and I had seafood soup. Both were extra good. We split a 24 oz. porterhouse steak and had potatoes au gratin.
They brought a small long shaped dish with 3 little desserts with a candle in the middle one. They were cheesecake, lemon cupcake and chocolate mousse.
It was very good, and the service was awesome.
The building was beautiful too.
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Scanning highlights:
I found an interesting name and information in The Kartchner Family.
Irene Jex was born 28 March, 1943 in Spanish Fork Utah! Who know I would find someone from my home town in a book in Philadelphia!
Barksdale-DuPont was one of the hardest books we have had to do. It was too tall to scan, so we had to do it sideways. That means every page had to be turned after scanning. Also I had to try and hold it straight each time, and it was a heavy book. Standing the whole time was a challenge too.
It was old and fragile, and I had to make sure it wasn't damaged any more than it already was. I worry a lot about the books and it breaks my heart if I do something that damages them. It already looked like this. I didn't do it.
It is a beautiful book.
I never expected to scan a book about Grace Kelly . . . in German.
This book, The Book of the Irvings, took a little extra time to scan, just because there was so much interesting stuff in it.
A nice picture of Washington Irving.
The shooting of Fair Helen.
"In the burial ground of Kirkconnell, near the Border, is the grave of Helen Irving, recognised by tradition as Fair Helen of Kirkconnell, and who is supposed to have lived in the sixteenth century. It is also the grave of her lover, Adam Fleming – a name that once predominated the district. Helen, according to the narration of Pennant (Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, 1772), “was beloved by two gentlemen at the same time. The one vowed to sacrifice the successful rival to his resentment, and watched an opportunity while the happy pair were sitting on the banks of the Kirtle, that washes these grounds. Helen perceived the desperate lover on the opposite side, and fondly thinking to save her favourite, interposed; and, receiving the wound intended for her beloved, fell and expired in his arms. He instantly revenged her death; then fled into Spain, and served for some time against the Infidels: on his return, he visited the grave of his unfortunate mistress, stretched himself on it, and expiring on the spot, was interred by her side. A cross and a sword are engraven on the tombstone, with 'HIC JACET ADAMUS FLEMING'; the only memorial of this unhappy gentleman, except an ancient ballad which records the tragical event."
This staircase made me think of Grandma Margaret Baadsgaard's staircase in her house in Lake Shore. It was steep and scared me silly.
The Irvings lived quite nicely.
This "Strange Will" is about Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood.
We find newspaper clippings stuck in books quite often. We hadn't seen one like this before.
We don't get quite so precise and detailed news like this now days.
Along with the weird, we also find the funny. The following came from Keyser Family History, 1974 . They were in random places on the pages. The author had a great sense of humor and appreciation for wisdom.
An finally, the thought for the month of May:
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