Our Director continues the Reports for our Activities at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, starting with the 2016 Congress Report<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Now, as a second installment for the Report, for the first time in our history, we tell about some experiences Behind the Scenes<\/strong>.\u00a0 With Thanks, Naming Names. <\/p>\n Next, and only next, we put up our Posters \u2014 always taking care, each year, to ask what are the current rules about where it is allowed.\u00a0 For example, this year:\u00a0 OK only in some designated places, and emphatically Not OK on most surfaces, as with painted walls or elevators. (Same as last year, in fact, but the rules can change, hence our question each time afresh.)<\/p>\n Some others’ posters disrespect or disregard those rules, we notice with some interest, but those appearances do not concern us.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we wish to remain on the Good Side.<\/p>\n We depend upon the Congress staff, both at the Medieval Institute and in other parts of the host University for the Congress, to help both ahead of time and on site.\u00a0 Room assignments, lighting repairs, audio-visual-projection support, catering, the works.\u00a0 Afterward, too, thank goodness, as described below.<\/p>\n After all, there emerge Situations (shall we say, putting it mildly) which call for logistic resolutions.\u00a0 This Congress no different from the others, and the Same Difference is that there was mostly Ready and Willing Help for smoothing out the glitches.<\/p>\n Holding the Fort, and Mugging for the Camera<\/p><\/div>\n And so, here is Elisabeth Carnell, holding one of her very own hand-made ceramic mugs. Already from FaceBook and other information, I know about her work as a potter, and the awards which its accomplishments merit. Nice!<\/p>\n Seeing this photograph, after the Congress was completed, she and I wondered about whether it might be called ‘Mug Shot’ or the like, but we thought that the wrong impression would be involved. She wins, no question, with the title ‘Mugging for the Camera’. Love it.<\/p>\n More of her work is displayed here:\u00a0 ECarnell Potter<\/a>.\u00a0 It wins awards, too.\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\n Regularly they stand on display in several buildings (as permitted), visible as can be.\u00a0 Each year, we learn that they speak for us, and make an impact.<\/p>\n One year<\/a>, various publishers’ representatives expressed their admiration for the consistent and stunningly beautiful professionalism of the layout.\u00a0 That year, we were showcasing our new font Bembino<\/a>.\u00a0 Also, that year, our Posters had to announce rearrangements in the scheduling, which the they could do more visibly and pertinently than the printed Congress Corrigenda<\/em>, as on the very door to the Sessions.\u00a0 (Picture included in that year’s Report<\/a>.)<\/p>\n No offense to the Corrigenda<\/em>.\u00a0 Simply, these experiences on site allow us to recognize the value of our new hashtag:\u00a0 #notgoingpaperlessanytimesoon<\/span>.\u00a0 See our FaceBook Page<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n Back to Now.\u00a0 This year, as before, various Congress attendees remarked that they noticed the Posters, even if their schedules were claimed for other parts of the Congress, and so they could take note of our activities all the same.\u00a0 A good conversation piece.<\/p>\n Worth the effort!\u00a0 In a way, that’s a method for being, in some measure, in more than one place at once.\u00a0 (The skill of Reading has much to commend it, Time Travel Included, about which see below.)<\/p>\n A big bonus for our “Parchment or Paper” Session \u2014 along with the expert Papers themselves \u2014 was the chance to examine directly several sorts of original materials.\u00a0 Jesse Meyer from Pergamena<\/a>: Handmade Parchment & Artisinal Leather (Montgomery, New York) brought many different skins for examination, including authentic uterine vellum and squirrel parchment, the latter especially prepared for our session.<\/p>\n For the record <\/strong>(This is important<\/em>):\u00a0 Jesse informed us all that the squirrel had been found already dead on the side of the road, a vehicular casualty.<\/p>\n The chance to see authentically this unusual (as far as we knew) form of parchment caused a wonderful sensation.\u00a0 Twitters included. Notably: Photography by our Associate Sean Winslow<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jesse Meyer with Road Skill<\/p><\/div>\n Sean Winslow On Site<\/p><\/div>\n Also available for inspection were original specimens in medieval and early modern manuscript and documentary forms.\u00a0 Always useful to see the primary sources.<\/p>\n It did not go unnoticed that the design of the twinned Posters \u2014 here, and in the Poster Pictured image above, you see them in their intended orientations, facing each other \u2014 was intentional.\u00a0 We delight in the Center’s different logos, official and comparably but differently official, with the visored alligator mascot Albertus Paludis<\/em> (“Albert of the Swamp”), replete with impressive grill.\u00a0 Some of us cheerfully wondered if the rose-festooned mode of armored mascot might have been fashioned by Rosie the Riveter<\/a>.\u00a0 However it was worked, it works.<\/p>\n We are glad to participate in the sessions of this co-sponsorship, which both gather and affirm international collaboration across disciplines and beyond borders.<\/p>\n We admire the long-distance journeys of our participants, bringing their accumulated expertise from afar, across time and place.\u00a0 It is notable, and greatly appreciated, that some speakers generously brought books as gifts, and also returned with weighty books as gifts.\u00a0 A special treat!\u00a0 Some of the exchange \u2014 medievalists, take note, Gift Exchange is alive and well, hurray! \u2014 is recorded in our official 2016 Congress Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n Collin Brown<\/a>, who gave a paper at one of our co-sponsored Congress Sessions last year (its Abstract here<\/a>), gave the perfect comment for some of our collective travels at this year’s Congress.\u00a0 Here he is at one of those Sessions in 2015 (their descriptions here<\/a>):<\/p>\n At the 2015 Congress<\/p><\/div>\n Our assigned schedule<\/a> at the Congress this year was punishing.\u00a0 A busy, packed, schedule, and we prepared for that, but the assignments of all our scheduled events on the 2 first days, and their locations, proved onerous.\u00a0 Not only because unexpected elements arising compounded the duties.\u00a0 The scheduling was too taut for comfort in any case.\u00a0 Logistics suffered.<\/p>\n You see, we were assigned Session-Slots 1 and 2 on Day 1 (the Thursday of the Congress), with Sessions first thing in the morning and first thing in the afternoon, sandwiching our lunchtime Open Business Meeting (its Agenda here<\/a>), with a required transfer from one building to another, leaving insufficient time \u2014 no matter how you cut it \u2014 to make the transfer.\u00a0 Session 2 therefore had to start late.\u00a0 We wished better.\u00a0 The Congress scheduling simply did not permit.<\/p>\n Also, you see, we were assigned Session-Slots 1 and 3 on Day 2 (the Friday), leading directly to our co-sponsored Reception \u2014 in a different building, leaving insufficient time to make the transfer.\u00a0 Ditto.\u00a0 Hard going.<\/p>\n Reality check.\u00a0 Tardis<\/strong> included.\u00a0 (You thought we forgot?\u00a0 That?!\u00a0 Never!)<\/p>\n She calls the task “Walking the Dogs”.\u00a0 (We love dogs, most of them, anyway, and dogs both need and like exercise.)<\/p>\n Sometimes, on these travels of hers (=Ours), there are as many as 3 dogs (not small dogs, neither), but this method of 2 trolleys only was (ha, ha) Travelling Light.<\/p>\n Collin gallantly offered to help.\u00a0 As we emerged into the outdoors (and the beginning of rain), Collin observed that “You have many things”.\u00a0 True.<\/p>\n (One of our new hashtags, remember, is #notgoingpaperlessanytimesoon<\/span>.\u00a0 You can see it in action on our FaceBook Page<\/a>.\u00a0 And in our Posters<\/a>, our Booklets and other Publications<\/a>, our Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, etc.)<\/p>\n To Collin’s sage observation, our Director remarked, “It may surprise you, but these aren’t the same things”\u00a0\u2014 because they change in the trolleys from one time to the other.\u00a0 Remember, this was Day 2 already, so there had been time for the transfers, multiply.<\/p>\n The portage conditions had already been widely noticed.\u00a0 Our Director is, among other things, a Beast of Burdens.\u00a0 (No offense to Beasts, at least, not all of them.\u00a0 Burdens, at least the unwanted ones, say, outside the gym, might be another matter.)<\/p>\n It is, after all, weighty scholarship no matter how you look at it, or weigh it.\u00a0 To put it another way, in such cases, Size Matters.<\/p>\n “That copy of the Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong><\/em><\/a>” \u2014 she pointed to one of them in the trolley \u2014 was destined for collection by graduate students for overland delivery to their professor, who had spoken for it ahead of time and could not attend the Congress.\u00a0 “That copy” \u2014 she pointed to another one\u00a0\u2014 is for delivery to another colleague, who knew that, given our several busy schedules at the Congress, it would be possible, at least, to find her at her co-sponsored Reception.<\/p>\n So, although they might look the same (2 copies of the Catalogue<\/strong> transported by our form of Dog Sled, shown below, had found their destinations on Day 1), these aren’t the same things that we are transporting now.\u00a0 Still there are some same-looking things, it is true, but not the same ones exactly.\u00a0 Gertude Stein<\/a> in Everybody’s Autobiography<\/a> had certain indeterminate things to say on such a subject (fish or magazines<\/a>, in fact), but we perhaps partly digress.<\/p>\n Back to now, as we descended the hill in slight rain, happily on course.\u00a0 About those same-but-different things in the Dog Sleds:<\/p>\n “Ah”, said Collin.\u00a0 “Where do they [meaning the new ones] come from?” “Oh!\u00a0 So your car is the Tardis”. Yay!\u00a0 You heard of the\u00a0Tardis<\/a>? Yes, we have, too.<\/p>\n “Bigger On The Inside” is a sovereign way to approach Travel of any kind, Time Travel included.<\/p>\n And if you ask us, any Time to consider Medieval or Manuscript [and Other] Studies<\/a> is a Good Time\u00a0\u2014 and a Good Time for Time Travel.<\/p>\n Tardis 2 via Wikipedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n It may be worth mentioning that this illuminating comment has already impressed some of our colleagues.\u00a0 Collin’s inspired comment deserved happy report to participants at the Reception, Sessions, Meetings, and wherever our Director’s path at the Congress might direct.\u00a0 Only once during those several days was it found useful to define the term Tardis<\/a>.\u00a0 (That is simply a market-research comment, not a complaint.)<\/p>\n Funny, and fun, that this revelation of the desirability and capabilities of our Director’s chariot made some Congress participants look at her with increased respect.\u00a0 They included some of the ones who, in the earlier hours of the Congress, looked on her with disdain as an ignoble Beast of Burdens, having to drag things around without an entourage or a big expanse account.\u00a0 (That ‘expanse’ thing is not a typo.)\u00a0 Apparently (well, Duh!), having access to a Tardis<\/a> for real inspires envy.<\/p>\n Some of those volunteer disdainers find it offensive (Why?) that our Director has so dedicated a zeal, as a volunteer without pay and without awards nor honors, for the purposes of promoting education.\u00a0 That some of the Disdainers make their chosen subjects of study some dedicated proponents, advocates, missionaries in the Middle Ages allows us to wonder how comfortable \u2014 or rather otherwise \u2014 it may be for some colleagues to see within their own timezone and timespan a living incarnation of (mostly) selfless dedication to a cause (and not a political or military cause).\u00a0 Not that these causes are the same thing.\u00a0 Just that it might be appreciated that this chosen path is not a comfortable nor well-paid one.<\/p>\n Maybe that is the reason for the main disdain.\u00a0 Incomprehension, that could be it.\u00a0 Without allowance for difference.<\/p>\n However, we digress a bit.\u00a0 Back on course:<\/p>\n That our Director’s chariot \u2014 it’s a time-honored vehicle purchased already used and still going strong\u00a0\u2014 is revealed to have marvellous powers is one of the best accomplishments of the Congress.\u00a0 Kinda Cool.<\/p>\n The term chariot<\/em> for it, by the way, was bestowed by our late (and lamented) Associate Michel Huglo<\/a>.\u00a0 It happened as our Director came to greet him upon departure after his participation at our 1998 Symposium on The Bible and The Liturgy<\/a> at Princeton University (among other occasions, all treasured in memory). As we said our goodbyes, in the driveway of The Peacock Inn, where he had stayed, he exclaimed, with appreciation: “Le chariot de Milly!”<\/p>\n She still has the same car, still trustworthy. Well travelled, too.<\/p>\n And now we know, with the journey to the 2016 Congress, that it has acquired (so we might hope) the talents, or anyway the name, of the Tardis. Some Chariot!<\/p>\n By the way, Our Director’s first car was an MGA<\/a>. Not new, of course. But\/And Sweet. It was a convertible, stick shift (of course), and a beautiful robin’s egg blue with black interior.\u00a0 As one of the Factory Colors, they called it Glacier Blue<\/a>. Stylish, don’t you think?<\/p>\n Hold that Thought. We’ll return to Sports Cars soon (see below).<\/p>\n Chariots, Tardis-es (in whatever form the plural might take, that is, if such a vehicle can occur in plural . . . ), included.<\/p>\n But first, we survey the scenery.<\/p>\n Sometimes at Conferences, we have a chance to assemble an ad-hoc Committee to determine the awards for the Best Tie and the Best Bow-Tie of the Conference.\u00a0 Long story, perhaps worthy of an essay, to tell some highlights over the years.\u00a0 Could be fun.\u00a0 This time, we were busy with other tasks.<\/p>\n Bref, in the midst of other tasks, in passing, our Director noticed a winning Bow-Tie.\u00a0 The criteria overall will come in that essay about the competition over the years, and about the ad-hoc Committees assembled to judge their entries.<\/p>\n For now, sufficient to say that the winner this year, totally, is our Associate Edgar Francis IV<\/a>. We didn’t have the chance to make a photograph. Perhaps next time?<\/p>\n Secret Tip: A good smile helps the cause. A winning smile!<\/p>\n Our Co-Sponsored Reception (see the\u00a02016 Congress Report<\/a>) was well attended.\u00a0 For example, all the staff attending the Congress from our co-sponsor the Index of Christian Art<\/a> at Princeton University greeted guests at the Reception.<\/p>\n Many of the participants of Sessions sponsored and co-sponsored by the Research Group, both from this year and earlier years, joined the Reception.\u00a0 It was a happy occasion.<\/p>\n Many other happy meetings and greetings to report.\u00a0 Here is a start.<\/p>\n For example, at one of the general receptions (Day 3), we could join the on-going linguistic discussion between Ilya V. Sverdlov and our Associate Geoffrey Russom.\u00a0 You might remember that Ilya generously allowed us to show his photos of heads on the Pont Neuf<\/a> in Paris on the series of Posters for our Sessions at the 2015 Congress<\/a>. Rick has contributed to our activities in many ways over the years, for example with a paper at our 2002 British Museum Colloquium<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Words Matter”<\/p><\/div>\n A bonus.\u00a0 (As if such a discussion weren’t enough!)<\/p>\n As we were leaving that reception (Dog Sled 1 in tow, now lightened of its carriage of Weighty Scholarship), our conversation turned by chance to sports cars.\u00a0 Didn’t know that we shared that interest, as well. (And now you also know, as revealed above.)<\/p>\n Bref, with the wind sweeping on its way to bits of snow (May and warmer Days 1 & 2 before notwithstanding), Rick showed his classy car.\u00a0 And showed it off.\u00a0 There, in the nearly empty car park (all the Congressisti<\/em> had departed to their other engagements, while we kept talking), he offered a test drive.<\/p>\n Sweet!\u00a0 Not for nothing, we learn, did he grow up in Detroit.\u00a0 Nature & Nuture, great when it works.\u00a0 Hadn’t expected such an opportunity at the Congress.\u00a0 Memorable, indeed.\u00a0 Worth the trip!<\/p>\n Feeling Board?\u00a0 That’s not a Typo.<\/p>\n So glad to have a meeting point at the end of the day.\u00a0 Relaxing with Focus was the Main Name of the Game.<\/p>\n Some more souvenirs.\u00a0 Any time is a Good Time to talk about Manuscripts Etc.<\/p>\n Here with our Associate Eric J. Johnston<\/a>.<\/p>\n And now a Shout Out to Round Out the Report.\u00a0 Remember that we started by greeting and acknowledging the staff Behind the Scenes?\u00a0 Already we regularly recognize their help, over the years.\u00a0 This year comes an occasion to describe an extra extension.<\/p>\n Remember that this Congress taught us that our Director and many of our Fellow Time-Travellers have some admiration for the Tardis<\/a>?\u00a0 (No Offense to the Tardis and Doctor Who!)\u00a0 This time, we had a bit of a mystery to solve.\u00a0 Not exactly Who, but Where Was It?<\/p>\n During the Congress, sometime after the completion of our Session on “Paper or Parchment” (Day 2), the Ac-Adapter belonging to a Dell laptop used for its presentation (and for earlier presentations in Sessions sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence) wandered out of sight.\u00a0 At least the mishap had the forethought to plan the wandering at a time following all the Appearances of the RGME Requiring a Laptop in Attendance for Presentations.\u00a0 Last sighting was in the room of that Session, while its continuing discussions occupied attention.\u00a0 Priorities being what they are.<\/p>\n By the Sunday, last day of the Congress (Day 4), our Director had the Opportunity (for which read Last-Minute-Possibility, No Chance Sooner) to retrace steps, search rooms, and discover that the missing adapter was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n Afterward, a call to the Lost & Found of Western Michigan University and the resourceful efforts the staff of the Medieval Institute managed to identify the lost case and to arrange for its retrieval. For their help, we thank Melissa Bibler of the Lost & Found, and Liz Teviotdale and Lisa Carnell (see above) of the Medieval Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n That we have a special place in our hearts for Lost & Foundlings<\/a> among manuscript fragments is already visible in our blog on Manuscript Studies<\/a>. (A leaf from the Wilton Processional included.)<\/p>\n That we appreciate the chance to recover Lost Foundlings of other kinds is now clear here.<\/p>\n You know, the key to the tracking came from a bit of manuscript? Now you do.\u00a0 Typical, we might think.\u00a0 Fortuitous, also.\u00a0 Fortunate, as well.<\/p>\n How to tell any old or new piece of technical equipment, purchased off the manufacturer’s shelf, from any other one? How to find out what the correct replacement would be and where to obtain it?<\/p>\n That set of questions turned out to be much more difficult than should be expected (long story), due to the failure of the sleek design of the laptop in question to allow for anything so useful as a model number or a serial number to be displayed anywhere other than within its system. Accessing that system would have, perforce, to depend upon enough juice remaining in the charged battery to allow for firing up the system, etc. That unwarranted set of challenges for a busy user on the move is deserving of a blogpost, but not right now.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, we could reflect with a smile that another hashtag worth adopting is #HandwritingNotGoingOutOfStyle.\u00a0 Even, in part (given the mixture of styles in these samples), #CursiveHandwritingStillHasAPlace.<\/p>\n The Wanderer, Labels Included<\/p><\/div>\n *****<\/p>\n And now, with our Activities at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies accomplished, with its formal Report<\/a> and a Report Behind the Scenes<\/strong> (You Are Here), we begin to plan our activities for the next Congress. Watch this space, our Congress blog<\/a>, and News<\/a>.<\/p>\n Also, while you are waiting, our blog on continues to grow, now with a <\/a>Contents List<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n *****<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Behind the Scenes at the 2016 International Congress on Medieval Studies Who Done It? We Did Good! (With the Useful Discovery that Our Director Apparently Drives a Tardis) Our Director continues the Reports for our Activities at the 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies, starting with the 2016 Congress Report. 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\n<\/em><\/p>\nReady & Waiting<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Reaching the Congress, after the year’s preparations for its activities (described in the posts leading up to it, such as in our Planning<\/a> and Program<\/a>), we meet and greet the resident staff.<\/p>\nMinding the Fort<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Poster Boys & Girls<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>As customary, the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence prepared Posters (in several sizes) for its Sessions and other Activities at the Congress.\u00a0 You have heard about them already (as above).\u00a0 Afterward we publish them in our Gallery of Posters on Display<\/a> and in the individual Congress Reports, including this year’s<\/a>.<\/p>\nDemonstration and Display
\nas Part of our Session on “Parchment or Paper”<\/h3>\n![\"Jesse](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_0727-Jesse-demonstrates-materials-and-tools-in-the-2016-Session-on-Paper-or-Parchment-1024x883.jpg\")
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<\/a>Medieval & Early Modern Originals<\/h3>\n
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\nSuch are the possibilities of combining reports with displays of the sources themselves.\u00a0 Nice!<\/p>\nCrusading Alligators on a Mission<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n![\"Poster](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/RGME-MEMS-Poster1-Crusading-with-border-232x300.jpg\")
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<\/a>The 2016 Congress Report<\/a> shows and tells part of the story of our paired Sessions co-sponsored with the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies<\/a> at the University of Florida, in a collaboration between our organizations now its third successful consecutive year.\u00a0 You can see the previous years of this collaboration in our 2015 Congress Report<\/a> and 2014 Congress Report<\/a>. Other reports for this year’s Sessions include the Abstracts of Papers published in the illustrated 2016 Congress Program Booklet<\/a>.\u00a0 And there were the Posters.<\/p>\nBooks in Motion<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Tardis<\/em> on Wheels<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Getting It Reality<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>On Day 2 this year, as we had to move from one building, after completing the co-sponsored Session on ‘Magic On the Page’ (described in the 2016 Congress Report<\/a>), and heading for the co-sponsored Reception (described there too) in another building down the hill (pesty on-going construction obstacles includedd), our Director had, as usual, to collect the materials for the given Session and repack them for the travel, along with the requisite materials already assembled for the Reception and for the earlier appointments.\u00a0 That time, it meant 2 luggage trolleys, best transported by 2 people.<\/p>\n![\"Front](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MB-Catalogue-Front-Covers-I-II-for-Web.jpg\")
<\/a>Our Director pointed out that some of the things in Dog-Walker 2 (Collin’s trolley at the time) were boxed copies of the 2-volume Illustrated Catalogue<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, for which the new Promotional Offer<\/a> had some welcome responses aforehand calling for delivery at the Congress \u2014 a method that could save on shipping costs.\u00a0 (The boxed set weighs 13.5 lbs, no less.)\u00a0 That delivery system was a main, but not the sole, reason why she had opted for driving all the way to the Congress and back again, a non-trivial feat.<\/p>\n
\n“Ah”, said our Director, “They come from the back of my car.\u00a0 There are the refills.”<\/p>\n
\n“Yess!”<\/p>\nBeen There, Doctor Who-Done-That<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Mobility with Style<\/h3>\n
Best Tie and Bow-Tie Competition<\/h3>\n
Reception<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMeets & Greets<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Test Drive<\/h3>\n
![\"Geoffrey](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/432-Rick-Russom-at-AZO-16-1024x686.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nNever a Dull Moment<\/h3>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nMeeting Points<\/h3>\n
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\nHere with Alison Alstatt<\/a>, in a joyful meeting in person, following upon written conversations about her ground-breaking work of recognizing the lost remnants of Wilton Processional<\/a> \u2014 a subject which some of our earlier research allowed us to begin to glimpse (as reported on our\u00a0 blog<\/a>, with updates). Wonderful to see the sure touch of devoted study for a manuscript having gained some Re-Foundlings.<\/p>\n![\"Celebrating](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-Joyful-Meeting-AZO-2016.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nLost & Found:\u00a0 Dr. Who-Done-It in Action
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\nA Bit of a Bonus for Manuscript Lovers<\/h3>\n
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