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ArchivesInfo: The Diary Project Continues
Last spring I found a diary in an antique store. (You can read my early posts about it if you search for "diary" on this blog.)
I needed to take a hiatus from traveling during the second half of last year, so I spent some time doing online research. My diary is from Maine and after a little deductive reasoning and research, I was able to determine that it is from the Kennebunkport area. I located nineteenth century newspapers and directories of Maine businesses that listed some of the names that I found in my diary.
Today I did more research at the Kennebunk Public Library and briefly talked to the folks at the Kennebunkport Historical Society. I will make an appointment at the Historical Society during research hours because I think that is where I will find more of the information that I need. I am now as close to one-hundred percent certain that the writer of my diary is from that town as I can be without knowing who the actual writer is. The names I have been able to find so far were all Kennebunkport residents.
The director of the Historical Society clued me in to a diary at the Kennebunk Library written by Andrew Walker, so I spent time with that today.
Some of us, who do competitions or exhibitions, can't help but to try to get some practice in during the regularly scheduled Ballroom Club events on Friday and Saturday evenings because the Palladium offers a large floor, not available in studios. But, because the regular dances are just that - social dances where people come to enjoy their dancing - we need to be mindful of other dancers, observe a certain etiquette, and not interfere with the enjoyment of other dancers. I'm sure that during crowded dance nights, if some of us blast through the floor in a quickstep run or quick sequential chasses, some will find it annoying. We often see couples off on the side, usually near the stage, practicing their groupings without interfering with the dancers on the floor.