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Sep. 17th, 2012 09:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI ought to be going through a chapter from Margaret Trawick's "Notes on Love in a Tamil Family" one more time. I have another hour and fifteen minutes here before I go home. But I'm feeling kind of wiped. I don't think I can adequately parse a complex description of a conception of love that's very different from my own right now. I'd rather take a nap. But since I'm the only one at the lab, that won't happen. I do, at least, have my Statistics work and reading done. I've always known what the mode of a set of numbers is, but I actually do have a better understanding of what it's for now.
In the archives today, I found tabulated results from the presidential election of 1936. Votes were mostly for Roosevelt of the Democrats, followed by Landon of the Republicans and with Thomas of the Socialist party a distant third. That might be useful in charactering the politics of Kenosha at that point in time. I found booklets that I think were advertising for Kemper Hall, which was at that time an Episcopal finishing school for girls. They included curricula, rules for conduct, and other fun things. Just before I left, I found a report on dental health of children at the time, which was apparently pretty bad. I'm going to make some notes on that tomorrow.
I've also gone through a number of boxes and books that were not of much use to me. I thought a book of registry of ministers would be helpful in figuring out what churces were busy and active at the time, but the registries dated from the late 19th centurey through the '60s and were not in chronological order. Even if I was motivated enough, I wouldn't have the time to collate all of that data.
One of the most interesting things about the archives is seeing what's been saved, sometimes seemingly at random. At some point, I want to come back to a collection I read a summary of. It's not related to my current research, but it includes correspondance involving a local inventor and business man and his fourth wife. There was "hatemail" sent to her about him before the marriage, including some detailing his "alleged sexual predelictions".
In the archives today, I found tabulated results from the presidential election of 1936. Votes were mostly for Roosevelt of the Democrats, followed by Landon of the Republicans and with Thomas of the Socialist party a distant third. That might be useful in charactering the politics of Kenosha at that point in time. I found booklets that I think were advertising for Kemper Hall, which was at that time an Episcopal finishing school for girls. They included curricula, rules for conduct, and other fun things. Just before I left, I found a report on dental health of children at the time, which was apparently pretty bad. I'm going to make some notes on that tomorrow.
I've also gone through a number of boxes and books that were not of much use to me. I thought a book of registry of ministers would be helpful in figuring out what churces were busy and active at the time, but the registries dated from the late 19th centurey through the '60s and were not in chronological order. Even if I was motivated enough, I wouldn't have the time to collate all of that data.
One of the most interesting things about the archives is seeing what's been saved, sometimes seemingly at random. At some point, I want to come back to a collection I read a summary of. It's not related to my current research, but it includes correspondance involving a local inventor and business man and his fourth wife. There was "hatemail" sent to her about him before the marriage, including some detailing his "alleged sexual predelictions".
