Henry--

There *has* to be a story there--indeed, a good many stories,
I'd bet.

How did you and your wife happen to stumble on such an amazing
trouve?  *That* is a story worth telling too, I just have to
believe!

All my best,
Kevin

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 12:51:01 -0400
>From: Henry Wiencek <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: A Worthy Life
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>This may be off the Virginia topic but so what -- it's for
your own good!
>The Harrisonburg public TV station is showing a terrific
documentary based
>on a biography my wife, Donna Lucey, wrote.  (OK,
self-dealing; so shoot
>me.) Some years ago my wife stumbled upon the life's work of
an unknown
>photographer in the basement of a Montana farm house.  This
astonishing
>find included prints, glass-plate negatives, clothing,
hunting rifles, and
>thirty-six years of diaries and letters from the 1890s to
1920s.  In a
>melancholy moment the photographer wrote in her diary, "I
wish I could
>lead a life worthy to look back upon.  I am far out of the
path now."  But
>she was not really out of the path of worthiness--she forged
an amazing
>life on the frontier, which this film beautifully captures.
I think you
>will enjoy it and I commend it to your attention.
>
>Henry Wiencek
>Charlottesville
>
>
>WVPT Schedule -- Harrisonburg, VA
>Evelyn Cameron: Pictures From a Worthy Life:
>
>Saturday, May 13, 11:00 AM
>WVPY HD [D]
>Wednesday, May 17, 10:00 PM
>WVPY HD [D]
>Thursday, May 18, 1:00 AM
>WVPT HD [D]
>Saturday, May 20, 10:00 AM
>WVPY HD [D]
>Sunday, May 21, 1:00 PM
>WVPY HD [DONNA]
>
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Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University

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