Be careful or you'll get confetti

Yesterday was not such a good day.  I became sick and as soon as I came home from work, I went to bed and a fever took over.  Chills are not fun.

At work I was able to show many people my quilt in the paper.  I am still sad that the Gees Bend type quilt was in the same picture as the lovely art quilts that the ladies had  submitted.  I guess I will never know what passes through the mind of a person who decided what will be in the installation and what will not.

We continue to work on the Washington County and York County records simultaneously.  It is hard work and difficult to accomplish.  Many of the records are held together with sealing wax – this is because they did not have staplers or paper clips in the 1700’s. 

I was working on the York county records when I came across a tractor feed paper (years ago the printers that were used to print off computer information used tractor feed paper – now we have laser printers – things are changing constantly.)  this particular piece of paper had on it a printout of court cases form long ago and I was amazed at how many things landed people in court – a parade of the ills of society so to speak.  They included but were not limited to the following:  Trespass, bastardy, adultery, fornication, non attendance at church, scolding, fighting, cursing, ejectment, debt, recognizance, breach of holiday, drunkenness, illegal sale of drink, swearing, petition for support, support order, assault, conversion, counterfeiting, neglect of duty, breach of the Sabbath, profanity, threatening, Scire Facias (don’t know that that is) forfeiture of bond, peddling, theft, resisting arrest, abusive behavior and contempt.  I stopped reading at this point.  This record was from  1695 to 1730 in York county.

Nevertheless, it is interesting work that we have been given to do.

If we are not careful with these fragile records, we could easily end up with confetti.