Dear Friends, especially Virginia in MA, And so it goes...another US state moaning about overstuffed archives and half implying they want to dump history, as the AZ State Archives did. (Please share Dee in AZ about how your political honchess wanted her new office is archival space.) http://www.telegram.com/article/20150913/NEWS/150919625 Wouldn't you think that one of the earliest thirteen colonies just *might* have a wealth of historical documents? And, folks, let us not forget that Boston MA was a critical port for our disenfranchised Irish Catholic immigrants, who were flung from the land of their births, as Boston MA was cheaper steerage passage than New York City. Makes me wonder where the Pope was then... Barb