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SNAPSHOT ENCOUNTERS:
Brief Meetings With People #3
SNAPSHOT ENCOUNTERS profiles some of the interesting people we meet during our travels to New England, by way of Philadelphia.
Today, September 3, 2008, is our wedding anniversary. My husband Monte and I had decided not to celebrate until tomorrow, since the Historical Society of Pennsylvania was open a long day today, from 12:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. All our “people sketches” in this piece occurred today.
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When we arrived at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, there was a line extending to the end of the block—perhaps a half a city block in Philadelphia. Although I had been told that there was a national genealogical meeting in Philadelphia this week, I’d forgotten. It seems a number of attendees were lined up to do what I was doing—research. Fortunately, during my brief time in the research room yesterday, I had ordered several items to review, and all Monte and I had to do was collect them, one item per each of us at a time.
As we reviewed the folders holding the William Bingham papers from the 1790s, Monte and I would discuss what I needed to photograph (a preferred way of documentation during quick research trips). The man across from me and in the seat next to Monte heard us discussing Henry Jackson and the Scioto (Ohio) Land Grant. He informed us that he had a silhouette of (more…)
