Kathy, How about putting the student nurse's journal on here in installments like Kim did with Phoebe's diary? hint, hint. Ruth At 2:57 AM -0500 3/30/04, [email protected] wrote: >Hi Vee - > I agree in principal that it's awful to see Bibles and letters going on >ebay for huge prices, but... if not for ebay, many of these things would >sit in >someone's attic, or worse, get thrown out. > I bought a centennial book for the town in PA. that my dad was from. >Along with it, they sent a journal of a student nurse from the same town. She >wrote it in 1922, and it's very eye opening as to schooling they got back >then. >(makes you SO glad you live now instead of then) I've been trying to find >someone from the family, to get it back to them. So far, I only got in >contact with >another woman who has her (the nurse's) family pictures. She also is trying >to find the family. But, if the seller hadn't put it on ebay, who knows where >it would have landed. The seller obviously didn't think much of it, to toss it >in with the centennial book. And in a lot of cases, it's the buyers that make >the price. I had fought (bid against) someone for 2 yearbooks from that town. >He took both of them beyond what I would pay. The only reason I got the >centennial book from him, I'm up at weird hours, and that's when the >auction went. > But, that's why they can go so high in price. >Kathy -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT