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Preserving Wartime Correspondence
In a daylong workshop on Saturday, May 17, Society archivist Sally Jacobs and publisher Kathy Borkowski will offer practical help in preserving and using wartime correspondence from past and current conflicts. The morning session addresses the technical issues of organizing and preserving correspondence in letter, e-mail, or other formats, and how to preserve digital files such as scanned documents or pictures taken with digital cameras. The afternoon session focuses on how these materials can be developed for publication as a book or a magazine article, and how other researchers and writers use similar materials in the Society's library and archives collections.
The workshop will be held at the Wisconsin Historical Museum, across from the Capitol in downtown Madison at 30 North Carroll Street. Participants will receive lunch, the book Voices From Vietnam and the DVD, Wisconsin World War II Stories, Part V. Cost is $35 for Society members or $40 for non-members. You can register until May 10 by calling 608-264-6566 or sending a note via e-mail.
Examples of wartime correspondence and how it has been used can be seen here on the Society Web site. Handwritten Civil War letters sent home from the front by Stoughton school teacher Ole Johnson and letters sent to their hometown newspaper by Neenah soldiers Arnold Runde and Fritz Schmidt during World War I can both be viewed at Turning Points in Wisconsin History, which also includes original letters sent home by 16 soldiers, sailors, pilots and nurses during World War II.
You may also want to check out one of our books based on wartime letters, such as Letters from the Front (including correspondence from 62 men and women from Wisconsin who served in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II), Wisconsin Korean War Stories, or Private Soldiers: A Year in Iraq with a Wisconsin National Guard Unit.
:: Posted April 30, 2008
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