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MEL provides this database to the library. They previously made HeritageQuest available and that will no longer be provided, however components of HeritageQuest can be accessed in other ways. We are told that PERSI is now part of Ancestry and the Freedman's records can be found at FamilySearch.
Remember – links to MyHeritage and the other great genealogy databases accessible through KPL can be found on our genealogy page as well as our databases page.
The first thing I discovered was that there is an incredible amount to learn. You can easily get bogged down in all the technical details. However, here are a few basics that interested me. First, you can download your raw DNA data from most of the major testing companies. In addition, several of them allow you to upload data from other sites. For example, if you had your DNA tested at Ancestry, you could download your results and upload them at MyHeritage and see who you match in their database. Abundant Genealogy has instructions on how this works for each testing company. There are also other free Internet sites where you can share your data. These sites might help you find other matches or analyze results in different ways. One such site, GEDmatch, was recently in the news for helping investigators identify the Golden State Killer by matching his DNA to distant relatives. DNA Painter is a site that allows you to look at specific matches and visualize them on your chromosomes (I know, this is where your eyes start to cross – but I promise, when you get into it, it's really cool and helpful).
More than anything else, I learned that DNA genealogy is only going to get more popular and, because more people are being tested, increasingly useful. That means we need to be on top of the latest and greatest resources. So keep watch over the coming weeks and months as we expand our DNA genealogy offerings by adding new books to the collection and link to useful sites from our Genealogy page. Let's make the most of this powerful genealogy tool!
The event will be an open house for mingling, show and tell of your favorite local photos or artifacts, and viewing a tremendous slide show of Kalamazoo photos that are sure to get everyone talking and remembering. There will also be representatives from Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Zhang Legacy Collections Center, the Kalamazoo Historic Preservation Commission, and the KPL Local History Room who will be happy to share information about their collections and Kalamazoo history resources. Attendees can also take this opportunity to tour the Hub and learn about all the great equipment there for digitally preserving your favorite photos, videos, and more. There will even be door prizes provided by Kalamazoo Sportswear and a one-time only chance to purchase a hardcover copy of Kalamazoo: Lost and Found by Lynn Houghton and Pamela O'Connor for only $10 cash (proceeds benefit the O'Connor Fund for Historic Preservation).
If you no longer live in Kalamazoo but wish you could attend, don't worry – we've taken care of that, too. The entire program will be live-streamed! So mark your calendar for this premier event.
The program is the perfect kick off for the exhibit the Ladies' Library Association will be hosting from September 12 through 19. "Petticoat Patriots: How Michigan Women Won the Vote," on loan from the Michigan Women's Historical Center & Hall of Fame, will look at the period prior to women getting the vote and the key figures in Michigan who helped make it happen. The exhibit is open to the public and free of charge, so be sure to come to the program on the 11th and then visit the Ladies' Library for the full picture on women's suffrage in Michigan.
The first book, Jackson: The Rise and Fall of the World's Largest Walled Prison was written by a man who spent his whole career in corrections. Perry M. Johnson tells the story of Jackson from first-hand experience, beginning as a counselor there in 1955 and eventually working his way up to warden. The early history of the Jackson State Prison is well researched and documented but it is Johnson's personal memories of the second prison, re-named the State Prison of Southern Michigan, that really capture the reader.
The author of the newest book, Jacktown, came to the project from an entirely different place. Judy Gail Krasnow became interested when she learned of plans to repurpose the original prison into a resident artists' community. As a storyteller and portrayal artist she was quickly taken with the idea and became one of the first residents. Over time the research she did into the history of the prison turned into a tour business and then the book, which focuses on the early years before the opening of the new prison in 1934.
The Jackson prisons have a history that is fascinating, and sometimes horrifying, but definitely worth exploring.]]>
Another summer event that has become a tradition is the Hidden Kalamazoo Tour, which takes place each year on Father's Day weekend. Hidden Kalamazoo takes you inside buildings, into spaces the public rarely, if ever, has an opportunity to see, and gives you the fascinating history of each site. This year's sites will be announced on May 1 and tickets will go on sale at City Hall and various businesses, so mark your calendar.
While nothing beats getting out and seeing Kalamazoo's wealth of historic architecture in person, don't forget that you can always take a virtual tour through KPL's local history webpages. The Houses and Buildings section of our All About Kalamazoo History site contains photos and history of dozens of Kalamazoo buildings. You can also enjoy galleries of Wallace White's photos from the late 1800s and Mamie Austin's photos from the late 1930s and early 1940s through our Flickr Commons site. Peruse our site and get yourself in shape for the best season of the year!]]>
Kalamazoo is well represented in chapters on Victor Gruen and Frank Lloyd Wright. "Michigan, Modernism and Suburbia" discusses the impact of Gruen's shopping mall designs – including his creation of the first downtown pedestrian mall in the United States on Burdick Street. Wright's designs for Parkwyn Village and The Acres are examined in the chapter "A Usonian Michigan."
As Modern design continues to surge in popularity, we can be proud of the part that Michigan played in its development and enjoy its documentation in Michigan Modern.]]>
A completely different type of map, but one of my favorites, is a pre-settlement vegetation map compiled by the WMU Department of Geography in 1981. It shows the specific forests, prairies, wetlands, etc. that made up the county in the late 1820s. I particularly love to show this map to children. They have often heard of Grand or Gourdneck Prairies, or Prairie Ronde, but now they can see that these prairies actually existed as natural features of their county.
Other interesting maps in the collection include: a map of the Matchebenashewish Reserve, which covered most of what is now downtown Kalamazoo; oil and gas wells in Kalamazoo County in 1940 and 1979; post office rural delivery routes in 1949; vacant dwellings in the city in 1930; 1831 and 1834 plats of downtown when it was still the village of Bronson; a city annexation map from 1957 showing all previous annexations – the list goes on and on. Of course, we have dozens of road and topographical maps, too.
Come into the history room and check out the collection for yourself. It's easy to lose an hour browsing the map drawers – and that's without considering all the amazing historical plat books and atlases (we'll save those for another discussion)!
That's why I am so excited about a series of guides from the National Genealogical Society – the NGS Research in the States Series. It currently contains concise guides for almost half the states, with more being added all the time. Each guide provides the history and settlement of the state; major archives, libraries and societies; resources, both basic and area specific; and other essential information for researching in each state.
So now, if you want to know why you can't find an Oregon birth record from the 1890s, we can easily discover that the state began requiring counties to record births in 1903, but the records weren't consistently kept until nearly the 1920s. However, if the person was born in Portland, there are some midwife and physician records dating back to the 1860s at the State Archives. That kind of information can be very hard to find, so hurray for the NGS and their excellent new series!
There are also books specifically focused on particular counties like A Guide to Tracing Your Mayo Ancestors by Brian Smith and Tracing Derry-Londonderry Roots by Brian Mitchell.
Many books of early records can be found in the history room. My favorite set in this category is the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland which contains detailed information about the landscape, buildings, and people of the province of Ulster just prior to the Great Famine.
Genealogists are always interested in finding the ship that their ancestors migrated on. We have many books of passenger lists that may help them find that information like Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada by Terrence M. Punch and Ira A. Glazier's The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York, 1846-1851.
Our Irish genealogy collection even has resources for people who are planning a trip to Ireland to do research. With Irish Libraries: Archives, Museums & Genealogical Centres by Robert K. O'Neill researchers can hit the ground running and make the most of their time in Ireland.
I may be biased, but with so many excellent books, I don't think there is a better place in our area for researching your Irish heritage.
It's easy to lose a couple of hours poring through these materials and I suggest that you do, but this fall we're also offering another way to learn about the House of David - with two programs. David Kohrman, archivist for the colony, will present The History of the House of David on Thursday, September 29. This is sure to be a wonderful program and will include rare photographs from the colony's private archive! Then we'll take a closer look at the colony's music industry on Wednesday, October 26 when Tom Meldrim and Keith Howard will share The Israelite House of David – Musical Traditions. Tom and Keith are both passionate about music history and have spent years gathering information on the musical traditions of the House of David, so you won't want to miss this.
Both programs begin at 7 pm.
People who have lived in the Kalamazoo area for a long time will probably remember the murders of Maggie Hume in the early 80s and Rebecca Binkowski in the 90s. Their stories are told in The Murder of Maggie Hume: Cold Case in Battle Creek by Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester and Being with Becky by Lisa Binkowski, Becky's sister. Further back in Kalamazoo's history is the murder of Jeannie Singleton. One Silent Voice: The Jeannie Singleton Story by Nicole and Robert DuShane chronicles the case of this 8-year-old Kalamazoo girl who was murdered in 1955, and the unsuccessful search for her killer. Blood on the Mitten by Tom Carr tells of crimes in Michigan dating from the 1700s to 2016.
This type of book isn't for everyone. However crimes like this have touched our community so deeply and we followed them day after day in the local news, so it is only natural to want to know more.]]>
From here you can also learn more about popular items like yearbooks, city directories and photographs in the collection. The Local History Collection page may also introduce you to valuable research material you may not be aware of like the Michigan Pioneer Collections or the Mortality Schedules for 1850 and 1860. So if you are curious about our holdings or want to get the most out of your next research trip to the local history room be sure to check out the Local History Collection page.
Apart from the nostalgic value, yearbooks are an important resource for genealogists. So often, yearbooks provide the only photos of our ancestors as young adults. They also yield important clues to their personality and interests.
Thanks to the generosity of hundreds of people over the years, our yearbook collection is impressive – but we always have room for more! We are particularly interested in growing our holdings of some of the smaller schools in the county, including the parochial schools. If you have an old yearbook you no longer need, we would gratefully accept it and make it accessible for our patrons – now and for years to come.
If you are interested in gathering information about a rural property in Kalamazoo County, stop in and take a look at our plat book collection - and for even more tips on house and property research come to Researching Your House History in the history room at 7 pm on May 12.]]>
Roosevelt School, circ. 1920
photo: Kalamazoo Public Library
At the risk of permanently dating myself, I include my school photo from the same era, upon which my co-workers have remarked, "Gee some people never change…" Notice the bangs, the glasses, the smile that suggests trepidation in front of the camera and discomfort in my own skin. In all fairness, it may be the hairstyles that primarily do us a disservice, chopped with an attempt to make a straight line across the forehead in bangs that either stick out or are plastered down mercilessly and unsuccessfully with VO5.
Hillcrest Elementary School, circ. 1940
photo: Kalamazoo Public Library
It seems that us kids of the fifties were burdened by a whole catalog of our parents' expectations to be (or become) as quickly as possible little adults, and these photographs capture us with clothing and hairstyles that seem to come in direct conflict with our burgeoning personalities. Note particularly the cat-eyed glasses on the girls and the goofy bow ties on the boys, neither of which sit level by the time of the photo.
There are the exceptions: the kids who look like little successes right from the start; girls completely at ease with peter-pan collars, headbands, and brick-a-brack, and boys who sport the nifty argyle cardigan and the button down shirt without a hitch. Still, we're all smiling through it in a way that is at once charming and heartbreaking. The photos freeze us in a moment of vulnerability we'll never possess in the same way again--each kid a sweet compilation of innocent personality facing the constraints and demands of growing up. Some, whose expressions reveal early experience with life's larger challenges, one wants to just scoop up and take home.
At the very least, these images demand that we embrace our inner dweebiness with self-forgiveness, precisely because they capture us when all our good intentions and promise for the future are still intact. As Larry Paulsen, alumni of Roosevelt remembers, "I played coronet and got as high as 2nd chair in 8th grade. When Henry Cummings graduated, first chair could have been mine. However, Jim Shoemaker transferred in from another school, and he claimed first chair. He later made a career playing his horn. Mr. Tuller, our band director told me what I lacked in tone quality I made up for in decibels." How could we not love that kid, or more importantly, the adult he has become? We hope you recognize yourself, or others that you know in these photos and join in the Flickr conversation about them.
If you have a Kalamazoo Elementary School photo album from the past that you would be willing to share, please consider loaning it to KPL Local History to scan for our website. Please contact the Local History Room or phone 269-553-7842
Roosevelt Elementary School, Grade 1, 1966-1967
photo: Kalamazoo Public Library]]>
"Sing a song of long ago
When things were green and movin' slow
And people'd stop to say hello
Or they'd say hi to you
Would you like to come over for tea
with the missus and me?
It's a real nice way
to spend the day
in Dayton, Ohio
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in 1903"
~ "Dayton Ohio, 1903"
by Randy Newman
Beth Timmerman's introduction of KPL's new place on the Internet Archive reminded me of the way this Randy Newman song kept popping into my head as I scanned these historic pamphlets and short books for the Archive. His simple chords and lazy, deliberate beat were the perfect soundscape for not only the architecture, industries, entertainments, and transportation that these tracts describe, but the spirit of the times.
Pamphlets in the collection promote the city and its amenities as well as Kalamazoo's important products. Orvill Gibson's Mandolins and Guitars are introduced via the Prayer of the Non-conformist: "Hold thou the 'non-conformist' to his love of tonal diminutiveness lest the fire and passion of his musical soul be aroused to cover the full-grown tone of the 'Gibson,' for, behold, the world is surcharged with its praises." Sleds and carriages are illustrated with charming descriptions, and wildly colorful and exotic Lodge Fellow's costumes and paraphernalia are presented in terrific color drawings.
Aeolian Mandolin Guitar Orchestra, c.1914
Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company Catalog I, 1914
These volumes invite one to enter into an era where everything from fashions to silos are manufactured by artisans with the use of simple machinery. They describe a world where businesses are largely owned and operated by families, local politicians reside in splendor both at home and in the workplace, transportation between cities relied on horses or steam driven trains, where the churches formed the hub of social and spiritual unity, and race tracks and the use of tobacco and alcohol drew the bottom line of Iniquity. Photographs of schools and descriptions of their functions are presented in the context of a city of "fine buildings, home-like residences" and "pretty parks and gardens" and the day to day expenditures of local farming are recorded by hand in a farmer's notebook. Biographies of important persons and their accomplishments and a complete directory of Kalamazoo African American citizens document a thriving black community.
The Archive offers us access to a lively historic Kalamazoo metropolis filled with venues for entertainment and amusement including Bronson Park, theaters, restaurants and hotels, and popular saloons, as well as glimpses into the interior workings of all kinds of storefronts and manufacturing establishments. Just as these tracts lull one into the notion that life was altogether more pleasant and sweet in the past, a place where "things were green and movin' slow and people stopped to say hello," the site also provides photos of the Michigan State Asylum reminding us that mental illness is not new, and tracts on disease and mortality which graphically depict the health perils and abbreviated life expectancy of the times that must temper our romantic view of these bygone days.
Main Street (Michigan Avenue), Kalamazoo, MI "Residence Portion Looking West" c.1890
Picturesque Kalamazoo, 1890
Still, while my hands were on these materials, many of which were crumbling and falling apart, it was sad and lovely to read of a Kalamazoo with "Paved streets lighted by electricity, with the best system of sewage, coursing underneath, while the coolest and clearest of spring water pours from a thousand hydrants and breaks into the spray of fountains; electric cars and telephones; stores and markets, shops and bazaars….[and with] beauty her own citizens daily enjoy…the wide and beautiful streets, bordered by green lawns and elegant homes, under the noble native oaks and the blue summer skies….It is in the deep, rich green of June, or the Golden of October, when the leaves are taking on their brilliant hues….that this wonderful city is seen in her glory and when she justifies all the seeming extravagance of her eulogists" (Artwork of Kalamazoo, 1894).
One cannot leave the collection of Internet Archive books and pamphlets packed as they are with facts, details, wonderful photographs, and illustrations without a sigh and the melancholy of Randy Newman's song almost lingering in the air, having indulged for a little while "a real nice way to spend the day on a lazy Sunday afternoon in nineteen hundred and three" in Kalamazoo.]]>
So many aspects of Kalamazoo society are represented by this online collection. Local businesses in the early 20th century like Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Company, Kalamazoo Tank and Silo, Garland Buggy Company are characterized by catalogs, and the business community as a whole is detailed in Commercial Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo: A City of Industries. Much can be learned about Kalamazoo's ability to care for its sick and injured people by looking at the Bronson Hospital Annual Report for 1917 and the report on the 1884 diphtheria outbreak. Educational opportunities are outlined in Kalamazoo and Education from 1914 and the 1876 Parsons' Business College catalog. However, the thing that stands out to me from this collection is pride that the people of Kalamazoo had for their beautiful city. It is conveyed through a variety of sources: The Lure of Kalamazoo, Miniatures of Kalamazoo, Art Work of Kalamazoo, and Picturesque Kalamazoo.
This is just a sampling of the wonderful items you can find at our Archive.org site, and since we continue to add new things all the time, you'll want to check back regularly!]]>
Al and Dave Eicher of Program Source International will present The Orphan Train in Michigan at Central Library on Thursday, March 10, at 7 pm. The Eichers produced a video documentary about the Orphan Trains in Michigan, and lecture regularly on the topic.
Research shows that more than 250,000 children were shipped out between 1854 and 1927. In all, it's estimated that approximately 12,500 children between the ages 3 and 16 were relocated to some 44 Michigan towns. The "Baby Trains" rolled westward along the MCRR with stops in Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Grass Lake, Jackson, Adrian, Marshall, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, and Dowagiac; or northward to towns like Fenton, Linden, Holly and Oxford.
According to The Herald Palladium (St. Joseph - Benton Harbor, MI), "Al Eicher's grandmother, her sister and 3-year-old brother were among those children sent to new homes in the Midwest. Two families took his grandmother and her sister, and a family in Ohio chose the brother. Less than 30 percent of the children were adopted... Boys usually ended up as farmhands, and girls were used as domestic servants."
Were some of your ancestors Orphan Train Riders?
Many dozens of Kalamazoo women have left their own indelible marks on our community's history and culture over the years. Much has been written about the likes of civic leader and scholar Caroline Bartlett Crane, and educator and early feminist Lucinda Hinsdale Stone. But what about all the others who we perhaps don't hear so much about?
What about Flora Roberts, Kalamazoo's first formally trained librarian? You won't find her name in the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame, but her vision provided information and services through three decades, two world wars, and one Great Depression "to meet needs [the community] may not even have known they had." Or how about Anna Jannasch-Shortt, the somewhat eccentric and highly driven music instructor whose Musical Institute trained many of Kalamazoo's leading 19th- and early 20th- century musicians? Or how about Cynthia Wendover Van Deusen? Her efforts not only helped give Kalamazoo its first public library building, but she contributed significantly to the building of Bronson Methodist Hospital and provided constant and sustainable help for Kalamazoo's less fortunate. And the list goes on.
On Thursday, February 25, WMU's regional history curator Lynn Houghton will present "Women in Kalamazoo: Another Perspective," where she plans to discuss those women who have made significant contributions to the Kalamazoo community, but are perhaps not so well known. Lynn will tell the stories of Madam Jannasch-Shortt, of Cynthia Wendover Van Deusen and Flora Roberts, of landscape architect Maxson McCrea, and community activist and politician Cornelia Robinson, among others. Join us for what will undoubtedly be an interesting and informative presentation.
On May 4th we will be learning about a Westnedge Hill gem with a fascinating history – Everyman's House. Our presenter, Wendy Mutch, is a former owner of the home and will treat us to a lively and fact-filled program. But wait, there's more! We are thrilled to be partnering with the Kalamazoo Valley Museum to display their model of Everyman's House at the program! This will be the first time it has been available for public viewing since the history gallery was re-done nearly 5 years ago.
Finally, Lynn Houghton will present the history and architecture of the neighborhood on May 14. Lynn has done many programs for us over the years and they are always excellent, but this happens to be her neighborhood so this might be the best one yet!
Both programs will take place in the VanDeusen Room at 7 pm, so be sure to get there early to get a good seat and have a chance to chat with Westnedge Hill residents and others with an interest in Kalamazoo's unique neighborhoods.]]>
This is where local history really gets fun. I consulted with others to see if the building looked familiar to them. No one recognized it, but in talking it out we decided it looked like it could be a church instead of a school. Then the sharp eye of a colleague picked up something carved into a block behind the heads of several women on the left side of the photo. Examination with a magnifying glass determined that it said "Bethany." Another colleague pulled up a picture of Bethany Reformed Church in Kalamazoo and, sure enough, we had our building.
However, we still have questions. City directory searches do not show Bethany operating a school. Could this be a photo of the Sunday school classes? It seems like a very large group for that. Another possibility that we considered was that these were the students of McKinley School, which stood just a block away, but we have no idea why they would need to use the church for a photo.
Can you help us solve this mystery?]]>
The U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 is now complete with an every-name index. There is a new image viewer with improved image resolution as well as simple save and share capabilities. They have also increased their book collection to include thousands of city directories. Research aids full of great information and tips are available – but don't be surprised when they refer you to searches in Ancestry. One of the wonderful things that HeritageQuest has always had, but you may have overlooked because it was completely buried on their old site, is the Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. I love those maps and now they are prominently linked right at the top of the home page. Of course, the best thing about HeritageQuest is something that is exactly the same as it has always been – it is accessible from home by logging in with your library card number!
If you can't remember how to get to HeritageQuest and the other great databases that KPL provides for genealogical research, just go to the Genealogy Topic Guide and scroll down to the Databases section.
Dilley could have stopped there – many authors of cemetery books do - but the photos are just the beginning. The book deals mainly with the garden or park cemeteries of Grand Rapids, which first began to be established in the late nineteenth century. But this development is all put into perspective with an excellent history of burial and burial places going all the way back to the beginning of civilization. It goes on to tell the histories of the specific cemeteries and then further to explain the monuments themselves. For example, popular architectural styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - such as Greek Revival, Romanesque, Egyptian Revival, and Art Deco - are all represented in the tombstones and mausoleums of Grand Rapids, and Dilley explains their popularity and significance.
While the book includes a great deal of interesting Grand Rapids history, the insight provided into the evolution of cemetery design and tombstone architecture and symbolism will give you an understanding and appreciation for cemeteries anywhere in the country. You may find yourself picking up The Art of Memory for the beautiful images, but I guarantee you'll keep reading for the fascinating details.]]>
Take a look at the recently posted video of WMU professor Brian Wilson presenting on the topic of his new book, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living. I promise you will be fascinated (and then you'll want to go back and view any of the other programs that you missed)!
The second photo gives a much clearer view of the family. They are tightly spaced in front of a porch on the right side of the house. Several of the women and children are wearing flowers pinned to their clothes. Styles indicate a date in the early 1890s.
Help us! Our local history photograph collection is a wonderful resource, but unfortunately not every photo comes to us with full details of the place, people, or date associated with it. For that reason, we are enlisting your help. If you have any idea who this family is, or if you recognize the house, let us know. But even if you don't, be sure to take a minute to enjoy these interesting old photos.
View all photos in the "unidentified" series.]]>
Grace and Steve Truman are co-authors of Storms & Sand: A Story of Shipwrecks and the Big Sable Point Coast Guard Station (Pine Woods Press, 2014). Storms & Sand tells the history of a life-saving station that once stood in what is now part of Ludington State Park, and chronicles the lives of the lighthouse keepers at Big Sable Point.
Monday's program is co-sponsored by the Southwest Michigan Postcard Club and the Kalamazoo Public Library. Truman's presentation begins at 6:30 pm; books will be available for sale and signing.
And... if you're intrigued by the hobby of collecting postcards and other historic images, here's short video from the club's show and sale last month in Kalamazoo.
Check out the Flickr gallery of selected images from the Atlas!
• Special collections conveniently separated for easy access, including: genealogy; city directories and phonebooks; maps and atlases; and yearbooks.
• Microfilm, microfilm reader/printers, and hard copies of Kalamazoo Gazettes housed within the history room.
• Print station is now located next to the computers.
• Shelves have more room, making books easier to find and giving us room to grow!
Enjoy a few photos of the new history room and then come in and see it for yourself.
Our collection isn't accessible at the moment, but don't forget that all the genealogy databases can be accessed from any of the computers in the Central Library and the branches, and there are many wonderful local history and genealogy books available in the circulating collection.
Of course, sharing family stories with your children or grandchildren is a great way to teach them your family history. But if you'd like to take it a step further, here are a couple books to get you started. Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-line Genealogy for Kids by Ira Wolfman and Roots for Kids: A Genealogy Guide for Young People by Susan Provost Beller both present a kid-friendly introduction to genealogy. So now you can share your passion for family history AND help the next generation become happy, confident people.
Massie opens the chapter with a brief story of Daniel B. Eldred, a pioneer notable for having given the city of Climax its name. Allegedly, Eldred had set out for Kalamazoo on the morning of October 19, 1844 when a linchpin came loose from his wagon and one of his wheels became unstable as a result. Upon nearing Galesburg, he sought the attention of a blacksmith. The blacksmith began to work to carefully reshape the linchpin to ensure a proper fit when Eldred asked that he just "Drive it in; it will answer for three days. I shan't want it after that as the world is coming to an end."
Eldred was a Millerite, a group that believed that the world would end on March 21, 1844, and led by the farmer-turned-preacher, William Miller. Miller had become enamored with the biblical passage Daniel 8:14 which stated, "Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." He deemed these words prophetic and believed that this foretold the second coming of Christ which would coincide with a cleansing of the Earth by fire. Additionally, he suggested that the 2,300 days mentioned in the passage should be interpreted as 2,300 years and would have begun in 457 BCE, the year that the fifth king of the Achaeminid Empire, Artaxerxes I of Persia decreed that Jerusalem would be rebuilt.
When the day dawned on March 22nd without incident, some Millerites had been rattled in what became known as the "Great Disappointment", but most maintained their faith that the prophecy would hold true by the end of the year. After some recalculations and number-crunching, Miller settled on October 22nd as the day that would mark the end of the 2,300 year period. By the time that the date arrived, Daniel Eldred of Climax was one of several hundred thousand Millerites who were anxiously awaiting the apocalypse. Eldred and many others had abandoned their professional duties since March of that year. Children had stopped attending school, debts had been settled, and fields that should have been nearing harvest lay fallow.
The second "Great Disappointment" occurred when October 22 gave way to October 23. By this point, Eldred and many others in Michigan and elsewhere were financially ruined, having staked their livelihoods on the notion that they would no longer have any need for earthly pursuits. Eldred sold his farm in Climax and relocated to Virginia, presumably after fixing his wagon's linchpin a bit more thoroughly.
The most enduring legacy of this story was the founding of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, organized by a group of Millerites that remained dedicated to the idea that the prophecy would eventually come true. Nearby Battle Creek, MI quickly became the nexus of the Church's activities under the leadership of Ellen G. Harmon and James White, devout Millerites who married and relocated there in 1855.
White Pine Whispers is a collection of short stories and essays concerning Michigan's history on topics as diverse as the effects of the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 and the history of the sport of Lacrosse. It and many other books by Larry B. Massie are available in the Local History Room.
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Enjoy this gallery and let us know if it brings back memories.
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Help us! Our local history photograph collection is a wonderful resource, but unfortunately not every photo comes to us with full details of the place, people, or date associated with it. For that reason, we are enlisting your help. Watch our local history blog posts in the coming weeks for photographs that we could use a little assistance with. We'll tell you what we know and you can respond if you have any ideas. But even if you don't, be sure to take a minute to enjoy some of our interesting old photos. View all photos in this "unidentified" series.
Help us! Our local history photograph collection is a wonderful resource, but unfortunately not every photo comes to us with full details of the place, people, or date associated with it. For that reason, we are enlisting your help. Watch our local history blog posts in the coming weeks for photographs that we could use a little assistance with. We'll tell you what we know and you can respond if you have any ideas. But even if you don't, be sure to take a minute to enjoy some of our interesting old photos. View all photos in this "unidentified" series.
Our first offering has always been one of my favorites. It came to us with the Wallace White collection, but appears to be a photo taken earlier and copied by White. It features two young children, seated and facing the camera. We have estimated the date to be around 1850. The only identification given was "Miss Howard's sisters." Can you help us discover their identity?
Portrait of two unidentified children, possibly Kalamazoo, roughly 1850
For starters, the database includes freshly digitized issues of the Kalamazoo Daily Telegraph from the years between 1868 and 1885, plus issues of the (weekly) Kalamazoo Saturday Telegraph from 1893 to 1899. And more issues of the Telegraph are being digitized "as we speak." Additional publications (and eventually images) will be digitized and added to the database as resources allow.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph was published under varying ownership between 1844 and 1916. Somewhat of a mirror to the staunchly Democratic Gazette, the Kalamazoo Telegraph reflected local happenings from a Republican perspective, which can be a boon for researchers. Many times, the two competing papers offered strikingly different accounts of local events; from politics to sports, entertainment, and most everything else in between. An event that appeared rather insignificant in the pages of the Gazette might have received in-depth coverage by the Telegraph, and of course vice versa.
Learn more about the Kalamazoo Telegraph in a newly written essay, which is part of the State History Award-winning "All About Kalamazoo History" section of KPL's website. And now, search issues of the historic Kalamazoo Telegraph newspaper in our new Regional Publications & Images database. Give it a try!
And as if that's not exciting enough, yet another project coming down the pike will be a newly digitized version of the Grand Army Memorial Record, a book "designed expressly for Grand Army posts throughout the national department of the Grand Army of the Republic for the purpose of securing and perpetuating the military history of every Grand Army comrade." Created in 1884, the book is a handwritten account of those who served in the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Michigan, Orcutt Post No. 79 at Kalamazoo. Once digitized, this book should be a welcome addition for family genealogists and Civil War historians. Watch for it soon!
WMU associate professor Mitch Kachun has added Attucks' story to his long list of research projects, hoping to help ensure what he describes as "Crispus Attucks' place in American history and memory."
Join us at the Oshtemo Branch Library on Tuesday evening, February 14th, 6 pm, as Dr. Kachun reveals his recent research on Attucks as he lays the groundwork for a major new book about one of America's most well-known—yet virtually unknown folk heroes.
Our library has a book titled A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith by Ann Lisa-Cox which tells the story of Covert's unique history as a racially integrated community during the late 1800's and early 1900's. Covert was a town where blacks and whites went to church and school together. They lived among each other and intermarried. Blacks held public offices and owned businesses. My great grandmother Annis Pompey owned and operated a cider mill and was the first female in Covert to have her own business. Anna Lisa-Cox was instrumental in getting the Smithsonian to take a look at this community.
The new Smithsonian African American Museum of History & Culture will have an exhibition titled "Making a Way Out of No Way" which will include eleven communities from across the United States and Covert, Michigan will be one of the eleven exhibits.
I'm very excited that my ancestors will be a part of this exhibit and proud of the contributions they made to society. If you are interested in learning more about the new Smithsonian Museum of African American History & Culture that will open in 2015, you can visit this website: http://nmaahc.si.edu/
When asked what prompted the judges to select KPL for this prestigious award, Dr. Sharon Carlson, HSM board secretary and director of the WMU Archives & Regional History Collections, responded without hesitation by saying, "it was the breadth and depth of the collection. I regularly refer people to these information rich pages. They are an appropriate resource for researchers ranging from a middle school student competing in History Day to genealogists to more serious researchers looking for core publications about a topic." HSM education and awards coordinator, Emily Asbenson, added, "the judges were extremely impressed with the way KPL presents and teaches local history."
"All About Kalamazoo History" has grown considerably since its inception, and now consists of more than 600 pages in twenty one different categories, which collect and preserve the stories of those who helped shape Kalamazoo and its environs. Some are brief vignettes while others offer richly detailed cultural histories; all are painstakingly written and researched by members of the Kalamazoo Public Library staff. These pages attempt to provide interesting reading and valuable research tools for local and regional genealogists, historians, educators, and library patrons.
According to retired KPL Local History librarian Catherine Larson, "we have tried to answer the most frequently asked questions about each topic, (both) for the convenience of our patrons, and to make efficient use of staff time. We have tried to design a structure that is sufficiently flexible that it can grow in any direction that seems appropriate, even if we can't foresee it right now. As I recall, we established the web site in 1998 or 1999. The initial Local History offering was three essays each in four categories. We have grown quite a bit since then, and the structure has served us well. It feels good to be part of a team that puts out such a useful product."
"One of the great things about the website," says current Local History specialist Beth Timmerman, "is that it has allowed us to collaborate with other institutions in Kalamazoo. Many of the house and building histories are from the 1973 Initial Inventory of Historic Sites and Buildings in Kalamazoo which was made available to us by Sharon Ferraro, the city's historic preservation coordinator. Another great collaboration has given us one of our most popular sections—the Kalamazoo: Then and Now photo gallery. This is an ongoing project with Professor William Davis at WMU and his photography students who re-create historic photos from our collection." In addition, staff at Kalamazoo Valley Museum and WMU Archives & Regional History Collections have been extremely helpful with providing photographs and information, as have our patrons. Comments and valuable additions to these essays have been received from across the United States, Canada and abroad.
Congratulations to Beth, the Local History staff, and everyone else who contributes to KPL's virtual branch! Your award-winning library now has an award-winning website!
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While searching through some family items, Ray Buhl wrote that he had found a letter written to his great-great-grandfather, James Crawford, by John Hull, a highly respected violinist and leader of Hull & Arnold's Quadrille Band of Constantine. Hull & Arnold's Band was well known throughout Michigan and Indiana during the mid-nineteenth century and the group performed often in Kalamazoo.
The letter, written in John Hull's own hand on band stationery, reads as follows:
Florence, Mich. Feb 26th, 1882
Friend Jas. Crawford,
Enclosed please find two violin strings. I had them on my violin and when I got my Italian strings, I changed them. I hope they will please you and make your old Amati ring. With regard to you and your amiable wife,
I am as ever your friend,
John Hull.
While the text is of little historical significance, the printed letterhead provides important clues about the membership of Hull and Arnold's band during the 1880s. At the time the letter was written (and the letterhead was printed), band members were John Hull, violin; Daniel Arnold, Clarionet(sic); Charles H. Arnold (replacing Morris Arnold), trombone; and (importantly), Charles E. Rogers, cornet.
Charles Rogers was the leader of the Constantine (Michigan) Cornet Band, and he later formed the Rogers Cornet Band of Goshen, Indiana. During the late 1880s, Rogers' Band became the "official" musical performance group of the Chautauqua movement in upstate New York. Several prominent Kalamazoo musicians, including Chester Z. Bronson and his brother, William Bronson, were members of Rogers' bands at one time or another. C. Z. Bronson was, of course, the first director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra.
In addition to the band roster, the letterhead also verifies that Hull & Arnold's band was indeed organized in 1838, a fact that that was generally understood, but remained unconfirmed until now, and that as of 1882, Hull was living in Florence Township just east of Constantine in St. Joseph County.
After reading the article on the KPL website, Mr. Buhl was kind enough to provide the library with a copy of the letter and a note explaining that the letter was found in his great-grandfather Norman Crawford's violin case (having been passed down from his father, James), but sadly the violin in the case was not an Amati.
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Buhl for sharing his findings. No matter how small, items such as this help fill the missing pieces of the mosaic that makes up our local history. Like the store owner says during the Pawn Stars program on the History Channel, "You never know what is going to walk through that door."
The Mackinac Straits Area, including Colonial Michilimackinac, St. Ignace, Mackinaw City, and Mackinac Island, has captivated tourists for generations. Madeline will discuss three different theories about the meaning of Michilimackinac, and then take the audience on an excursion through the history of the Mackinac area from the 1600s until the opening of the Mackinac Bridge in 1957, illustrated with dozens of historic postcard images. "I think I have some interesting trivia about the Mackinac area that many folks don't know!" says Adie.
Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about one of Michigan's favorite getaway destinations!
If you prefer your leisure reading in the form of a mystery, there are many books and series to choose from. The Torie O'Shea Mysteries by Rett MacPherson and the Family Tree Mysteries by Patricia Sprinkle are both series that feature a main character who is a genealogist. A keyword search in the library catalog for 'genealogy and mystery' or 'genealogy and fiction' will turn up many other genealogy-themed summer reads like; Legacy by Danielle Steel and Out of the Shadows by Joanne Rendell.
So while you're enjoying your break, keep sharp by reading about someone else's family search – whether it be fact or fiction.
But believe it or not, Jeter was not the first Kalamazoo kid to make significant "firsts" for the same New York team. Just over a century ago, "Big John" Ganzel, nicknamed for his imposing six foot, 195 pound stature (a truly BIG man by 19th century standards), signed a three year contract with the New York Highlanders (later Yankees) in 1903 and proceeded to make his mark with the team during its inaugural season. On May 5th of that year, John was responsible for the Highlander's first ever triple play, and a week later, John belted the Highlander's first ever home run against the Detroit team in his home state on May 11th.
John Ganzel was one of five brothers who made names for themselves in "America's game" during the late 1800s and the early decades of the twentieth century. All five played local, regional and state league ball. John had a very successful career as player and later as a manager, and his brother Charlie, "one of the greatest catchers the world has ever produced" (Gazette), became one of the most famous ball players of his day with four National League Championships and one World Series championship to his credit. Charlie's son, Foster Pirie "Babe" Ganzel, later carried on the tradition through the 1920s. Read the full story of the Ganzel Brothers, Michigan's "First Family" of baseball in the "All About Kalamazoo History" section of the KPL website.
Once again, congratulations Derek! You continue to make Kalamazoo (and the rest of the country) very proud!
Once begun, the project began to swell beyond my initial impressions of the number of public murals to be found in Kalamazoo. Some murals have been present for decades and have become so well integrated into the cityscape that they have become easy to overlook. New murals are arriving annually, being painted by local artists such as Conrad Kaufman, who has made a name for himself in the region due to the sheer number of murals he has created for both public and private audiences.
While some of Kalamazoo's murals are easily located, others are more well hidden. Throughout the process of locating and documenting these works of art, I have often been surprised at what can be discovered through a slight variation of a routine route through town. After an examination of the murals in the photo gallery, it is my hope that you will seek them out on your own if should you happen find yourself nearby. If you are aware of any murals that are readily accessible to the public and have not yet been included in the gallery, please let me know in order to help make the list as complete as possible.
We are having a wonderful time trying to unlock the clues in this photo. Our donor believes that it would have been purchased in the late 1920s or early 1930s, and we know from phonebooks that a Triangle Lunchroom was operating in Cooper Township at that time. We have not yet determined where on old 131 (Douglas Avenue) the diner sat, or the owners, but we have many resources still to check. If you have any information for us regarding the photo, please let us know. Local residents are often our best resources!
One interesting note – we had hoped to get vital information from a sign in the window of the building, but no amount of magnification seemed to help. Finally, Mandana Nordbrock, with her sharp (young) eyes solved this important mystery – it read "Juicy Ham Burgers."
Regional railroad history expert and author Mark Worrall will share more rare and unusual photos of railroads from Michigan's past and discuss the intriguing and sometimes unbelievable stories behind them. "From oat powered trains to air powered railroads; oil trains on the Annie to Hunter Specials roaring across the Upper Peninsula; Grand Rapids reefers to the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic's spending binge in 1888." Mark is a compelling presenter and his programs always receive enthusiastic reviews. Come early, Mark's program begins promptly at 6:30 pm.
Mark has coauthored books about Michigan's railroad history, including Michigan Rail Disasters 1900-1940 with Benjamin Bernhart and Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Railroad with Charlie Conn. In 2009, Mark was a featured speaker at the Michigan Railroad History Conference.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn more about Michigan's historic rail lines!
As soon as the last of the significant quantities of snow had melted, and the weather had begun to turn more hospitable, I was ready to take new photographs of the works previously included, and quickly decided to expand the collection. From nine, the gallery has grown to thirty-nine with plans to include approximately two dozen additional sculptures. The sheer number of works of public sculpture found in Kalamazoo renders even this list incomplete, and it is my hope that if you are aware of a work that has been currently overlooked, you will inform me in order to help create the most comprehensive list possible.
These sculptures are, and have been, sources of civic pride for the residents of Kalamazoo, and we are lucky to conduct our lives amidst an atmosphere that encourages and appreciates the creation of works of artistic expression. While I am continuing to expand the gallery devoted to public sculpture in Kalamazoo, I am also currently engaged in creating a similar gallery focusing on public murals. It is my hope to have a version available by the end of spring.
During the 1970s, the water tower at the Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital nearly met its demise before a public effort succeeded in raising the necessary funds to save it. Countless other structures around the city—the GR&I Depot, the Michigan Central Railroad Station, Henderson Castle, and more recently, the historic Michigan Avenue business district—can all lay claim to similar stories. Others—the original Kalamazoo Public Library building comes immediately to mind—weren't so fortunate.
There's a new movement afoot to save the aging smokestack next to the old Gibson guitar factory (now home to Heritage Guitar Inc., and others) at 225 Parsons Street in Kalamazoo. The factory was built in 1917 and its smokestack, emblazoned with the vertical letters G-I-B-S-O-N, has since stood as a proud monument to the iconic company that once occupied the property. Sadly, time has begun to take its toll on this historic landmark. The aging structure is in desperate need of repair or it will eventually have to face the inevitable.
Local supporters have started a "Save the Stack" campaign to raise awareness and hopefully save the Gibson smokestack. Visit the group's new Facebook page, share photos and stories, "Like" what they are doing, and join the effort!
Not long after, we received a call from Belgium. Author Alain Findling is working on a book about Albert Einstein—not Einstein the physicist or Einstein the philosophical genius, but Einstein the musician. Fascinating! Music it seems played an important role in Einstein's life, as evidenced in the brief video from the Institute of Physics at the end of this post. Mr. Findling was intrigued by the photo of Einstein and Fischer, and wanted to know more about the story behind it. We'll certainly be curious to learn more about Mr. Findling's research.
And just this week, we received a communication from Osik Moses, Assistant Editor for the Einstein Papers Project at The California Institute of Technology. The Einstein Papers Project, "one of the most ambitious publishing ventures ever undertaken in the documentation of the history of science," plays a leading role in the effort to document, preserve, and publish the written work of Albert Einstein.
Ms. Moses forwarded the following explanation from her colleague, Dr. Jeroen van Dongen from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Van Dongen explains, "The calculations refer to Einstein's attempts to develop a unified field theory of gravitation and matter. First he defines the Einstein tensor (G), next he studies the Euler-Lagrange variations." (Heavy stuff indeed for a vacation cruise.) Van Dongen then adds, "...in light of this explanation it is impossible that Einstein "collaborated" with Fischer. Maybe Fischer saw Einstein working on the unified theory and asked him for a page that Einstein was going to drop in the waste bin." Again... fascinating!
So just as we might have surmised, the unidentified napkin appears to be a unique souvenir of world travel that Charlie Fischer brought home to Kalamazoo. A truly international effort now provides evidence to suggest that the writings are most likely the authentic scribblings of Albert Einstein. The world gets a little smaller every day.
Regional railroad history expert and author Mark Worrall will share rare and unusual photos of railroads from Michigan's past and discuss the intriguing and sometimes unbelievable stories behind them. "From oat powered trains to air powered railroads; oil trains on the Annie to Hunter Specials roaring across the Upper Peninsula; Grand Rapids reefers to the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic's spending binge in 1888." Mark is a compelling presenter and his programs always receive enthusiastic reviews. Monday's program begins at 6:30 pm.
Mark has coauthored books about Michigan's railroad history, including Michigan Rail Disasters 1900-1940 with Benjamin Bernhart and Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Railroad with Charlie Conn. In 2009, Mark was a featured speaker at the Michigan Railroad History Conference.
Mark will present the second part of his program at the Oshtemo Branch Library on May 23rd.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn more about Michigan's historic rail lines!
Whether your understanding is impeded by neglected medical nomenclature while in the midst of genealogy research, studying old medical records, while attempting to enjoy literature of the time or even if you just have an interest in obscure words and phrases, this book is an excellent resource for being specific to the medical field and terminology that has fallen out of favor, various pseudonyms for the same practice or perhaps practices or medicines that are no longer in use ("Inhalation of Gas- A form of pneumotherapy. Inhalations of carbonic acid and sulfurous acid were used to treat tuberculosis of the lungs, asthma and emphysema." p. 71). From the completely unheard of ("Spruce Beer- A remedy made by boiling the tops of spruce boughs in beer. Used to treat scurvy in the 18th century." P.134) to the familiar disguised in strange nomenclature ("Polish Disease- Also syphilis." P.111, "Scourge of Nations- Also Cholera" p 125 or "St. Hubert's Disease- Also Rabies" p.122) you can use this book as a research tool or as a source for a few moments interesting and educational diversion.
KPL staff videotaped the program in May, but for whatever reason, the files were stored away and seemingly forgotten. With this new "discovery," the program is now available in its entirety on KPL's YouTube Channel, and linked along with the other Local History Video Presentations on the KPL website.
It was truly exciting to view Valerie's program; itself once "lost and (now) found!"
From the madding crowd they stand apart,
The maidens four and the Work of Art;
And none might tell from sight alone
In which had Culture ripest grown--
The Gotham Million fair to see,
The Philadelphia Pedigree,
The Boston Mind of Azure hue,
Or the soulful Soul from Kalamazoo--
For all loved art in a seemly way,
With an earnest soul and a capital A.
Long they worshipped; but no one broke
The sacred stillness, until up spoke
The Western one from the nameless place,
Who, blushing, said: "What a lovely vase!"
Over three faces a sad smile flew,
And they edged away from Kalamazoo.
But Gotham's haughty soul was stirred
To crush the stranger with one small word.
Deftly hiding reproof in praise,
She cries: "'Tis, indeed, a lovely vaze!"
But brief her unlovely triumph when
The lofty one from the house of Penn,
With the consciousness of two grandpapas,
Exclaims: "It is quite a lovely vahs!"
And glances around with an anxious thrill,
Awaiting the word of Beacon Hill.
But the Boston maid smiles courteouslee
And gently murmurs: "Oh pardon me!
I did not catch your remark, because
I was so entranced with that lovely vaws!"
James Jeffry Roche
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
—Albert Einstein, in an interview on the SS Belgenland, December 1930.
During the 1930-31 cruise aboard the SS Belgenland, Einstein became friends with the shipboard bandleader, Kalamazoo's own Charles Fischer. The two, it seems, shared at least one common interest, the violin. On occasion, Einstein would borrow Fischer's violin and join the orchestra for a few numbers.
The Kalamazoo Public Library has in its collection an interesting souvenir of the occasion – a single page from what was apparently a souvenir scrapbook, given to the library by Charles Fischer's widow after his death in 1948. On one side of the cardboard page is a photograph of Charles Fischer, sharing a conversation with Albert Einstein about his violin. The same photo was later featured in a Kalamazoo Gazette article about Fischer and his famous orchestras.
On the other side of the page is an undated, nondescript paper napkin with what appears to be handwritten scribblings, perhaps notes written by Einstein himself. Were Einstein and Fischer (forgive the obvious nod to Lawrence Weinstein and John A. Adam) "solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin?" Was this something new that Einstein was working on? Or was he simply sharing ideas to his newfound friend??
And so, the appeal goes out to the scientific community… What might these scribbles mean? Are they indeed the writings of Albert Einstein as they appear to be?? We'd love to hear your comments. Add a comment below or contact the Local History Room.
After doing some speedy detective work, we were able to determine that the photo was of the Kalamazoo College Mandolin Orchestra taken about 1908. Formed in 1907, the orchestra was the first to debut R. F. Holden's newly penned composition, Kazoo, which was to become the 'K' Alma Mater. In March 1908, the orchestra made a successful concert tour of Southern Lower Michigan, with stops in several towns, including Grand Rapids, and on the 17th of March, Ionia. A featured performer with the orchestra was a tenor singer named Fred Oliver Pinkham, further confirming the identity of the orchestra pictured on the card.
Learn more about Kalamazoo's early musicians in KPL's collection of Local History essays. And be your own detective. Contact the Local History Room for help in identifying some of your own photographs. You might be surprised at what you'll find!
The theme of this year's open house was "Women of New France," with demonstrations on cooking, basket weaving, musket firing, and other activities from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Student archaeologists operated an "Outdoor Museum" with details of their work and examples of what has been found.
The fort, active from 1671-1781, was established by the French as a trading post, but ultimately stood under English, Spanish and finally United States rule before being abandoned in 1781—hence the region's designation as the "Four Flags Area." The fort played a significant role in the colonial fur trade, and though its existence was known, its exact location remained a mystery until a short time ago.
Fort St. Joseph originally shared a great deal with its northern counterpart, Fort Michilimackinac, but don't expect a similar reconstruction of the fort in Niles any time soon. The Fort St. Joseph project is still very much in its infancy, and unfortunately, due to the damming of the St. Joe River over the years, much of the site now lies beneath the current water table. Archaeologists must continuously pump water away from the site while they work, then allow the river to reclaim its territory at the end of each season.
What we found most impressive, however, was the enthusiasm displayed by each of the student archaeologists. They are to be commended for cheerfully and knowledgably—if not emphatically—describing their work and bringing their methods and their findings to light for us onlookers. And what they are finding is truly amazing… the remains of a blacksmith's fire pit, apparent building footings, and a host of artifacts – animal bones, gun parts, tools, buttons, jewelry, and the like. It was a truly inspiring and rewarding experience.
Learn more about the history of Fort St. Joseph in Fort St. Joseph, 1691-1781: The Story of Berrien County's Colonial Past by Joseph L. Peyser and Robert C. Myers, and be sure to visit the WMU Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project website.
Over the years, individuals and groups like the DAR and the Kalamazoo Valley Genealogical Society have published books of cemetery records and tombstone inscriptions for various cemeteries and we have those in the local history collection. In more recent years there have also been some very ambitious projects launched on the Internet that provide burial/tombstone information - and many times even photos of individual stones. The problem is that no one set of books or single website has everything for all the cemeteries in the area.
In response to this issue, the Library has launched Cemeteries of Kalamazoo. This collection of web pages locates all the known cemeteries and burial grounds in Kalamazoo County and identifies all the sources – both print and online – for burial and tombstone data for each individual cemetery. You can search for the information by township or with the Cemeteries A-Z index.
As with many of our projects, this is a work in progress and we intend to update and expand as more information comes our way. So be sure to let us know if we've missed anything or you know of a new source and we'll promise to keep this a tool that will be useful for years to come.
Richard Hamilton, author of "Oh! Hast Thou Forgotten," Michigan Cavalry in the Civil War: The Gettysburg Campaign, will entertain and educate his audience when he portrays his ancestor, George Thomas Patten, at the Central Library on June 8. Patten, who served in the 6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment which rode under the command of Brigadier General George Armstrong Custer in the Battle of Gettysburg -- lost his life at the Battle of Falling Waters. Dressed in a Civil War uniform, Hamilton will interact with the audience as he assumes the character of his courageous ancestor.
The program begins at 7:00 - but come early for the book signing at 6:30. The 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War is less than a year away, and this is a great opportunity to commemorate our history.
I will never forget when local history specialist Catherine Larson, who pioneered our local history web pages, invited me to start writing essays for the website. She said to write on any topic that interested me, because if it interested me, it would interest other people. That attitude has paid off and resulted in a great collection of essays on a very diverse set of topics - everything from parks to parking and Lassies to Ladies. But please don't think that we've run out of things to say. New essays are being added to the website all the time - four in just the last month! So keep checking back, because if it interests us…
Sadly, one of these institutions is being threatened with closure and the dismantling of its collection. The Library of Michigan may be a victim of cost-cutting measures recently outlined by the Governor's Executive Order No. 2009-36. If this takes effect, much of the Library's holdings may end up at Michigan State University and the non-Michigan genealogy materials will be eliminated or dispersed to other institutions. Over the years, I have heard that the genealogy collection at the Library of Michigan is one of the ten largest collections in the country and it would be a tragedy to see it dispersed. However, genealogists are not letting it go without a fight. On August 5th genealogists from around Michigan (and probably other states) are assembling in Lansing to support the Library of Michigan and to show "legislators and fellow citizens that [they] care about our state's past." They plan to meet at 9:45 at the State Capitol and later march over to the Michigan Historical Center to form "Hands Around the Library." The event is being planned by the Michigan Genealogical Council and they invite all interested individuals to join them.
REMEMBER…what you are given is a citation. You will need to come to the Library and look at the Gazette on microfilm which can be found in the Tech Center.
If you need to find an article or obituary from a recent issue of the Gazette, talk to the staff in the Local History Room who will be more than happy to assist you.
There also is a book that deals with the subject of women lighthouse keepers:
Women Who Kept the Lights by Mary Clifford (H 627.9 C638)
Along with all of these there are many fine websites on this subject:
So, if you plan on traveling around Michigan this summer, visit a lighthouse or two, or three…
If you missed this great series, don't despair. Each program was video recorded along with brief interviews with the presenters, and will soon appear on our website. Additionally, Julie DeLuca has offered a tour of the Rose Place Historic District which will take place on Thursday, June 4 at 7:00 pm. There is still one more opportunity to celebrate Vine. Lynn Houghton will conduct a tour of the Vine Historic District as part of her 2009 Gazelle Historic Walk series. The tour will begin at the corner of Vine and Westnedge at 8:00 am on August 28.
Meanwhile, if you are curious about how such communities as Battle Creek, Otsego and Gun Lake got their names, look for the book, Michigan Place Names by Walter Romig (H 917.74 R765) in the Local History Room. There also are copies on the regular shelving if you want to check the book out. Mr. Romig spent ten years compiling information about the origins of the names of villages, towns, townships and cities that are still here and those that are gone forever, like Singapore which had been located at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River at Lake Michigan.
Obviously dates Mr. Romig gives need to be verified for their accuracy. Kalamazoo became a village in 1843, not 1838, and a city in 1884.
As far as who is celebrating anniversaries this year, so far we have the Kalamazoo Mall which turns 50, the Kalamazoo Country Club which turns 100, the City of Kalamazoo which turns 125, and Kalamazoo Central High School which turns 150. Happy Anniversary to them and others who will be celebrating in 2009.
Another book on the subject is Minor League Baseball Towns of Michigan: Adrian to Ypsilanti (H 917.74 O414) which looks at minor league teams in the state in communities ranging from Adrian to Ypsilanti as the cover states. Kalamazoo has great photographs and information on the teams and the sites where you could find professional baseball in this community during the last half of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. You will be amazed.
We always are interested in receiving additional copies. If you have any questions, please contact the Local History Room.
The volumes are arranged in alphabetical order but you also can access them if you go to www.kpl.gov and click on "Catalog" then click on "Local Information" and then "All Local Databases" which will bring up a search box. To search this way you will have to have a name or organization you want to find. Also, the books are on microfilm if you would like to view them that way.
If you don't have anyone particular you need to find, just go to the shelf and choose a volume to look at and be introduced to some of the people who lived in Kalamazoo not that long ago.
You never know what unique and unusual place you might find…remember Mystery Spot? It's still there.
Sharon Ferraro, the city's historic preservation coordinator, was the presenter. She discussed the history of the tower, what has been happening with it recently, and its possible future. The audience was particularly thrilled with the slide show which took them on a virtual tour around, inside, and on top of the tower.
If you enjoy reading books of this nature describing life in communities such as Beaver Island, North Manitou Island and others which are no longer in existence, come take a look at what the history room offers!
In the summer of 1915, a celebration was held in Chicago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. The State of Michigan dedicated $5,000 for an exhibit during the festivities in Chicago which would highlight contributions African-Americans in Michigan had made in several different fields including science, art and manufacturing.
A statewide committee, composed of fifty-seven people, also put together a manual which covered the history and contributions of African-American residents in Michigan. This book, reprinted in 1968, contains a variety of information including brief biographical sketches of individuals and organizations in the state, a list of soldiers who fought in the Civil War, and even home and property owners. The book also is peppered with many black and white photographs, a name index and a list of materials that were in Michigan's exhibit.
You don't have to have a specific topic to research. Just open them up and start reading. Sue Husband who worked at the Archives and Regional History Collections at Western Michigan University was reading these books one volume at a time. I don't know if she ever finished them but I admired her for her persistence.
Tickets are $5.00 and will be sold at the door. For further information you can go to the Old House Network's website at http://www.oldhousenetwork.org/index.php
The original cards he did from the Kalamazoo Gazette reside at Western Michigan University's Archives and Regional History Collections. Now you can view the cards here at the Kalamazoo Public Library which is reproduced on 33 rolls of microfilm. The information is arranged in alphabetical order, with wonderful cross-references.
You never know what you can find in this resource. Once I was researching baseball in Kalamazoo and found a great deal of information in these cards going all the way back to the 1850s when the first hardball games were played in Bronson Park. The village council was concerned most about the damage this sport might do to the trees.
Look at the Coller Collection and see what gems you discover.
Unfortunately, cemetery wandering is a seasonal activity so at this time of year I have to be content with virtual strolls. Two sites that provide images of tombstones in Kalamazoo area cemeteries are Kalamazoo County Cemeteries on the Web and the Cemeteries section of KalamazooGenealogy.org. Both sites contain burial/tombstone information for thousands of people and many are accompanied by images of the stones. These sites are wonderful resources for genealogists, as well as taphophiles, and are growing all the time. Links to these and other great sites for genealogists can be found on our Genealogy Topic Guide.
These maps are some of my favorite resources. They are the Sanborn Insurance Maps which were produced by the Sanborn Map Company originally for fire departments so that they could know the composition of the buildings signified by different colors. They also were used by insurance companies. As a researcher, they are a great resource to illustrate the history of a building and all the changes it went through. The two massive volumes on the top of the shelf are from 1908 and 1932. In addition, there is a two-volume set from the 1950s in that area. There also are additional maps on microfilm dating all the way back to 1887, the first map for the city.
Take a look at these maps. Not only are they fun to look at, you never know what you will learn.
Now you can search for a whole host of images typing in general search words like "education" or specific search words like "Kalamazoo Public Schools." Once you get a list, you will notice there is a small icon in the lower right hand corner for each entry. Click on that and the image will appear. If you would like to make the image larger, just click on it. This also includes some images from the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and the Western Michigan University Archives and Regional History Collection.
This is a treat…enjoy!
Take a look at this year's list and those which made previous lists at www.michigan.gov/notablebooks. Hopefully, you will be tempted to pick a few of them up to read many of which are both in the local history room and in the general circulating collection.


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Goodbye Gloss, I'm Leaving With Lipstick
"Bubblegum pinks" filled with sparkles that taste like strawberries. They were all the rage when I was growing up. In school we'd always compare our purples and nudes and reds (for those whose mothers' permitted it), and we could never get enough of the stickiest, gooiest glosses. At 16, I swore I'd never trade my lipgloss for a dry boring lipstick. Now, I can't remember the last lipgloss I purchased.

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Maybe it is the summer travel season or my social media postings of blog posts and photos of my travels; the number of requests for my buddy passes has increased significantly.
Yesterday, on a flight attendant thread someone posted a random text request for buddy passes from a complete stranger. It appears Facebook faux friends are targeting travel industry personnel to access travel benefits.
This is not an emergency. This is someone planned this trip based on buddy passes. The normal way to plan a trip is to buy the airline ticket before booking the hotel.
The fight attendants are on to the people who we have not spoken to for ten years and call us out of the blue asking for buddy passes. This happens to us on a regular basis. Frankly, we are tired of it.
We can tell when someone wants something from us.
We truly dislike family (fifth cousin removed) and new found best friends connecting with us just to ask for passes.
|Buddy Pass Text Request
However, this reaches a new level when random strangers are targeting flight attendants on Facebook to send a friend request. Then they access their phone number to send a buddy pass text
|Buddy Pass Text Request
This conversation sums up exactly
how we feel. You think they get the hint. No, they don't understand the message.
These buddy pass seekers move on to the next person on the list.
because they know this is a crap shoot.
They don't even take themselves seriously.
Another flight attendant aptly sums it up, "This is not, ok!"
Whomever. Is doing this. STOP IT!
I don't know how you found us, but what you are doing is annoying. We are making jokes about you and your texts, but you are also pissing people off.
Flight attendants need their beauty rest, do not disturb them with text messages for buddy passes. You do not have permission to contact us in this manner.
Hint: If you have a flight attendant who has graciously given you a buddy pass, that is a secret. Please do not broadcast it to the world, because you help create situations like these.
You want buddy passes, airline are hiring. Join us, then you can have everyone hounding you for buddy passes.
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Senate Democrats pushing tax cuts for business
WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders of both parties belittled each other's tax cutting agenda Tuesday as the chamber debated Democratic legislation that would lower levies for companies that hire new workers, give raises or buy major new equipment this year.
With neither party eager to let the other claim campaign-season victories, the ultimate fate of the legislation seemed dubious. Even so, Democrats viewed the measure -- which would cost $29 billion over the next decade -- as a way to show voters some of their ideas for pumping life into the economy.
"Their approach is completely different than ours," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. "Congressional Republicans want to lavish huge across-the-board tax breaks on billionaire hedge fund managers and people like mega-rich celebrities like Donald Trump."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., aimed his fire at President Barack Obama, who prodded Congress on Monday to extend wide-ranging tax cuts -- scheduled to expire in January -- for most taxpayers but let them expire for households making more than $250,000 annually. Democrats say the rich should contribute to deficit reduction, but Republicans say the higher taxes would affect many business owners and make it harder for them to create jobs.
"The president has a nightmarish economic record, a nightmarish economic record," McConnell said. "By demanding higher taxes on the few, he's trying to distract from it."
Debate began after the Senate voted 80-14 to start considering the legislation. Republicans who favor deeper, wider-ranging tax cuts considered blocking the measure with procedural moves but decided to let debate begin and broadcast their own views on tax cuts by offering amendments of their own.
Among those ready to offer amendments was Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who was proposing to extend expiring tax cuts for a year for all taxpayers, including the wealthiest.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, plans a vote in his chamber in a few weeks on a similar measure, which Republicans argue would give Congress time to work on overhauling the tax code and avert deep automatic spending cuts that take effect in January unless lawmakers head them off.
Senate Democrats' legislation would grant tax credits -- which are subtracted from a company's tax bill -- equal to 10 percent of the amount its 2012 payroll exceeds the salaries it paid in 2011. The maximum credit would be $500,000, a figure that would disproportionately help smaller businesses.
It would also let companies that buy major new property in 2012, such as machinery, deduct the entire cost of the purchase this year under so-called "bonus depreciation" rules. Currently they can only deduct half the amount.
In a written statement, the White House said it strongly backs the legislation, which it said would provide tax breaks to nearly 2 million companies that hire workers or boost wages. Obama had included tax credits for small businesses in the "to-do" list he proposed for Congress in May.
"By providing targeted tax relief to the businesses that are expanding their workforce and making new investments in capital, S. 2237 will help spur economic growth and job creation and strengthen the recovery," the statement said, using the measure's formal bill number.
In an election year in which the slumping economy gives Obama and the Senate's majority Democrats little to boast about, the proposal lets Democrats take the offensive on the tax issue while asserting they are trying to encourage job creation. The bill was reaching the floor days after the latest gloomy Labor Department report that a scant 80,000 jobs were created last month, leaving the unemployment rate at a rugged 8.2 percent.
"This tax cut is by no means a cure-all, but it could be a difference-maker for small firms on the fence about adding payroll," said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. "After last month's sluggish jobs numbers, we may be on the verge of a rare moment of agreement on how to help the economy."
Republicans want all the expiring tax cuts to be renewed and have opposed Democratic efforts to omit the highest earners, saying that would hurt businesses.
Reid is likely to hold a Senate vote in July on Obama's proposal to renew the expiring tax reductions for all but those earning more than $250,000.
The legislation contrasts with a $46 billion measure Republicans pushed through the House in April granting 20 percent tax deductions to all businesses with fewer than 500 employees -- more than 99 percent of the nation's companies. It drew a veto threat from Obama and has gone nowhere in the Senate.
McConnell praised such measures on Tuesday, saying, "Let's focus on the kind of pro-growth jobs proposals the Republican-led House has already passed."
Both measures were unpaid for, meaning that if enacted, their price tags would make federal deficits bigger.
Both parties support the tax breaks for equipment purchase, though critics have questioned their job-creation potential because they say they would cut taxes for companies that would have bought items anyway.


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Frank, I am not sure if I am reading your first point correctly. I see that it is critically important that it is _possible_ to have the same URI serve to identify both the service interface instance and the resource on which that service is operating. This is the case today with HTTP. We have a problem with WSDL 1.1 precisely because it does not make it possible to do the same thing with SOAP. Ideally, we want to be able to have both a SOAP and an HTTP interface defined at the same URI as the resource. This has the further implication that the method name must not be part of the URI for the service interface. For example, given: http://www.myorg.org/foo112 You should be able to write WSDL that indicates that this URI identifies: 1. a resource, with an HTTP interface (POST, PUT, GET, DELETE, HEAD). and 2. a SOAP service, with some arbitrary set of method signatures. I do understand that people may not always want to bind the service interface and the resource on which the service is operating to the same URI. However I view the ability to do this as vital. If you can not express this notion then it is not possible to bridge the architecture of the web and the architecture of web services. -bryan -----Original Message----- From: Francis McCabe [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:55 PM To: Anne Thomas Manes Cc: Www-Ws-Arch@W3. Org Subject: Re: Fw: Naming a Web service resource Anne: This topic has been discussed a little in WSA. I can give you my personal view on this; it is not one that is necessarily shared ;-) 1. The targetResource concept is, IMO, a brain-dead idea. The principal reasons being: a. The resource that a service manipulates may not be identifiable in any obvious way b. A service may be inherently `about' a dynamic set of resources, and therefore it becomes onerous to identify them in the service description c. The action-oriented level of description implicit in a service description is not the appropriate level to discuss resources. However, who am I to say what WSD gets up to? 2. Web services *do* have identity; and hence can be expected to have a URI. However, that does not imply that a Web service has a meaningful representation: a. For a simple, atomic, service, one might assert that the binding address of a service is a good candidate for the service identity. However, that seems too low-level and too transport specific. b. The service description of a service is a potential candidate for the service representation, but different descriptions of the same service are likely. c. A composite service, in the sense of a transparently composed service, is different to its component services and yet essentially unknown to the component parts. A simple example: a service composing a weather service with a language translation service to give weather reports in foreign languages. Ideally, one should be able to build such a service with no programming: simply by hooking together the weather service and the translation service. The service description amounts to a particular choreography over existing services. The foreign language weather service is still a service, and still had an identity (it may be composed further, by linking with an import-export service to predictively order umbrellas say). So, the upshot seems to be that a Web service has an identity, but that that identity is closer in spirit to the namespace uri than a web page uri. Frank On Friday, July 4, 2003, at 07:10 AM, Anne Thomas Manes wrote: > > I'm not getting much response from the ws-desc team on this issue, and > it > occurs to me that it might be of more interest at the arch level. > > Some background: The WS-Desc team has proposed the introduction of an > optional attribute called targetResource to provide some additional > discovery metadata to reference the "thing" behind a Web service > interface -- for example, it can help you discover that different > service interfaces provide access to the same thing. To some degree, > this attribute > is tied to the groups decision to limit a service to a single > interface, > because now you need a mechanism to express that fact that multple > services > are related in some way. > > Thinking through this scenario, I've realized that one of the must > unwebby > features of the Web services framework is that a Web service doesn't > have a > URI. It has a description (WSDL). It has one or more endpoints. But > there is > no one URI that represents the resource that *is* the Web service. > > Reading through the various documents that describe URIs and the Web > architecture, it seems obvious to me that a Web service is an > "important" Web resource, therefore it should have a URI. > > I'd appreciate it if the WS-Arch group would discuss this issue. > > Anne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Thomas Manes" <email@example.com> > To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <firstname.lastname@example.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 11:43 AM > Subject: Naming the service resource > > >> >> See inline... >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Ugo Corda" <firstname.lastname@example.com> >> To: <email@example.com> >> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 3:48 PM >> Subject: Re: Minutes of W3C WSDWG Conference Call, June 26th, 2003 >> >> >>> Anne, >>> >>> Let me see if I understand you correctly. I think you are saying two >> things. >>> >>> a) A serviceURI is a way of associating a URI with a particular >> wsdl:service >>> (single interface), so that this URI abstracts away the individual >> endpoints >>> and associated URIs. >>> >>> This is fine with me. The URI of the WSDL document plus the fragment >>> identifier mechanism gives us that type of URI right away. >> >> My suggestion is that we name the *service resource*, as opposed to >> the >> interface to the service or the definition of the service. I don't >> think >> that it's appropriate to use the WSDL document plus fragment >> identifier > for >> this purpose, because the fragment identifier is the URI of the >> definition >> of the service, not the service itself. The serviceURI would give us >> the >> ability to directly associate this definition with the thing that it >> defines. Also consider the fact that the service resource might be >> defined >> using some other type of description language, such as DAML-S, and it > would >> be very useful to have a definition-language neutral mechanism to >> refer to >> this resource. (Now that I think about it, I think this point is >> probably >> the most important point in my argument.) >> >> A week ago or so I asked whether a process can be a resource, and a >> REST-oriented person (I forget who, now--sorry) responded, "yes". Way >> back (at least a month ago), Sanjiva made a comment in response to >> one of the >> questions regarding targetResource that we have no name for the thing > behind >> the interface, which--unless I'm missing something fundamental >> here--is > the >> service resource. IMHO such a resource should have a name. It's very >> un-Webby not to name an important resource. I'd like to think that >> this > idea >> was the basic concept behind targetResource -- but then we started >> talking >> about naming the thing that the service acts upon rather than the >> service >> itself (e.g., the printer rather than the print queuing/management >> services). I'm totally in agreement with Mark (!) that identifying the > thing >> that the service acts upon is too much implementation detail. >> >>> b) A serviceURI is a way of abstracting away a particular >>> wsdl:service >>> document instance, so that I could change some of the endpoint URIs > under >>> that wsdl:service (and generate a new WSDL document) and still refer >>> to >> the >>> same serviceURI. >> >> The serviceURI names the service resource. It has nothing to do with >> abstracting away a wsdl:service document instance. The wsdl:service > document >> instance defines some aspect of a service resource, hence it should > specify >> the resource that it is defining. A service resource may have >> multiple endpoints, and these endpoints may change. But it's still >> the same > resource. >> Here's a simple analogy: Ugo Corda has many endpoints -- email >> addresses, >> postal addresses, phone numbers, etc. Ugo may change some of these >> endpoints. He may get new ones, he may get rid of some. But he's >> still Ugo >> Corda. >> >>> I am not sure we need this. We could just keep the endpoints the >>> same >> while >>> changing the underlying implementation and/or deployment. (To take >>> your >>> parallel with a Web site's home page, the Yahoo home page is always >>> http://www,yahoo.com regardless of any change in the underlying >>> implementation and deployment). >> >> That's exactly my point. http://www.yahoo.com names the Yahoo home >> page, >> which is a resource. The URI isn't the definition of the resource. It > isn't >> the endpoint of the resource (that would be > http://www.yahoo.com/index.html >> or something like that). It names the resource. The implementation of >> the >> resource can change, and things still work. >> >>> Regarding the use case of a single service implementing multiple >> interfaces, >>> that "service" will actually be a bunch of wsdl:service's, and this >>> particular type of relationship among them could be addressed by the >> service >>> group solution. >> >> Perhaps, but how would you indicate the type of relationship in the > service >> group? And how would this solution allow me to discover that a > wsdl:service >> definition and a DAML-S definition in fact define different aspects >> of the >> same service? >> >>> (As you can see, I am taking a minimalist approach and trying to >>> avoid >>> introducing new concepts unless they appear to be absolutely >>> necessary). >>> >>> Ugo >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Anne Thomas Manes" <email@example.com> >>> To: "Ugo Corda" <email@example.com>, <firstname.lastname@example.com> >>> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 07:57:02 -0400 >>> Subject: Re: Minutes of W3C WSDWG Conference Call, June 26th, 2003 >>> >>> >>> Ugo, >>> >>> My proposal for point 1 is simply the assignment of a name (a URI -- > let's >>> call it serviceURI) to a service implementation (a resource). As >>> with > any >>> resource, there's no reason why you can't change the code that > implements >>> this resource. >>> >>> In many respects, it is equivalent to assigning a URI to a Web >>> site's > home >>> page. There's nothing stopping you from changing the code behind the >>> Web >>> page (in fact it happens all the time). >>> >>> I proposal the serviceURI SHOULD NOT be the same as the endpoint URL >>> of >> the >>> service implementation -- for exactly the reason that you may want >>> to >> change >>> its implementation some time down the road. >>> >>> And I think I agree that the new wsdl:service definition looks >>> pretty >> close >>> to being right for the definition of a service implementation -- but >>> I >>> suggest that the resource MUST have a serviceURI name. Given the >>> naming > of >>> the service implementation, I'm not sure we then need targetResource >>> -- > or >>> perhaps it could be added to the service group definition as a means >>> to >>> identify the relationship among the services in the group. >>> >>> By naming the service implementation, you also solve the use case >>> where > a >>> single service might implement multiple interfaces -- you would >>> still maintain the one service/one interface requirement, but you >>> could define multiple service implementations that reference the >>> same serviceURI. >>> >>> Anne >>> >> >Received on Monday, 7 July 2003 13:23:00 UTC
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