--part1_163.243495dc.2c644d79_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Just wanted to share my letter on Barb's behalf to Mr. Lyman. --part1_163.243495dc.2c644d79_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: <[email protected]> From: [email protected] Full-name: BarryColby Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:38:08 EDT Subject: Barbara Dix To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: 7.0 for Windows sub 10637 Dear Mr. Lyman, I read in the Palladium Times Online that there is a very real possibility that Barbara Dix might loose her position as Town Historian due to lack of funding. Barbara is not just your Town Historian, she is also Oswego's Good Will Ambassador! On July 23, I had the pleasure of meeting Barbara for the first time when I donated the Poorhouse Records to the City of Oswego. On her own time, she came to the restaurant were the Oswego Genealogy Society took my husband and I for dinner, as she wanted to meet us. The next day we went to the records department to drop of the book and met Barbara again. This time she was on the job. Barbara is a very warm and caring person, and this attitude is also carried over to her work ethics. Barbara cares about the records that she is responsible for and it shows. The storage area is the cleanest records holding area I have ever been to! She explained a numbering and labeling system that has been put in place to retrieve records. She also explained how the records are protected from water damage. My husband and I drove from Buffalo, New York to Oswego and we stayed for two nights in one of the hotels on the waterfront. Because we stayed during Harborfest, we paid a normal nights rate and the next night the room rate more than doubled. We ate two dinners in Oswego, two breakfasts, and two lunches. In addition to the stores that I shopped in, I spent about $100 for death certificates for my great, great relatives. This $100 is almost pure profit as this took someone all of about 10 minutes from the time the documents were retrieved until they were photocopied. We decided as long as we were there, we drove up to Malone, New York and Ft. Covington, New York. Other areas that my family came from. We have not gotten our credit card bill yet, but I think all in all we spent a nice chunk of cash on this little trip. At each stop I knew right where to go because Barbara gave me the names and numbers of folks to help. Other Town Historians! Please find the money to keep this very important position filled! Thank you for taking the time to read my email. Diane Colby --part1_163.243495dc.2c644d79_boundary--

Listers: Diane most generously donated her birthday present from Barry, a very old HUGE ledger of the poorhouse records of Oswego County, that she had asked for. She donated this ledger in memory of her grandparents. I had hoped that Diane would see this and make her position known. Friends, this was not an inexpensive gift. It was a gift given in love from a man to his wife as that is what she most wanted, and it was a gift given in love to the City of Oswego in memory of her grandparents. Diane has requested help as to where this book should lodge, and it was to be in the capable hands of Barbara Dix. It makes one wonder "should I ever do something like this if the county does not care enough to keep a valued ambassador/employee". What would be the purpose? Every woman on this list, and yes, I'll have to be fair and admit that a lot of men, know that budgets have to be kept, but we also know how to do it--it's called the old "rob Peter to pay Paul method". You do away with this to attain that, you do away with a new coat so the kids can have new shoes, you set your priorities straight and and your eyes straight ahead and just DO. It is about time Oswego County got their priorities straight. Diane certainly did. I cc: this to Mr. Lyman and I hope everyone else wrote him directly. It doesn't help much to just put our replies on the list if he doesn't see them. Dorothy Baker Gainesville, Florida