I'm doing volunteer work for the Farmington Historical Society, where I'm digitally scanning and archiving old ledgers, journals and papers using my digital camera (thank you, Heather!)
One such was a journal a man kept from 1814 to 1869. The journal ends just before he dies. As I was turning the pages and glancing at the entries ("November: Too cold to plow") the feeling gradually came over me I was literally holding someone's life in my hands.
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