Very interesting, Sally! This has given me a much broader understanding of your mother's summer trip of investigation with the Lilly grant. I look forward to the updates to come to learn who will ultimately take possession of the story.
Thank you! I think there will end up being many layers to that. A copy of the transcript is at Earlham College (the Quaker Harvard π ) for genealogical and general-interest purposes. Copies have also been made available to my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Many of my cousins did not grow up being brought to Quaker Meeting, and I actively don't want them to feel like they are cut off from this story, or have less of a "right" to it.
The physical leather book is with my grandmother, Mary Jane and Lizzie's closest living descendant. And my mom is working on a fictionalization! So I hope everyone who wants to be part of the story gets custody of some aspect of it. π
Very interesting, Sally! This has given me a much broader understanding of your mother's summer trip of investigation with the Lilly grant. I look forward to the updates to come to learn who will ultimately take possession of the story.
Thank you! I think there will end up being many layers to that. A copy of the transcript is at Earlham College (the Quaker Harvard π ) for genealogical and general-interest purposes. Copies have also been made available to my aunts, uncles, and cousins. Many of my cousins did not grow up being brought to Quaker Meeting, and I actively don't want them to feel like they are cut off from this story, or have less of a "right" to it.
The physical leather book is with my grandmother, Mary Jane and Lizzie's closest living descendant. And my mom is working on a fictionalization! So I hope everyone who wants to be part of the story gets custody of some aspect of it. π
Loved reading about this bright candle of light in American history and your family's part in it. Thank you for sharing. β Glenn Perlman
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!