[MR] Re: Period Shooting Books

[Robert J Welenc]

>I am fortunate to have an original large copy of _The Grey Goose 
>Wing_ by E.G. Heath, and over half of the Archer Antiquaries 
>Journals beginning with issue two, at which point they had less 
>than 75 members. Any of these are hard to find nowadays. 
>
Just out of sheer curiosity, Magnus, how many books do you have?
(Yes, I know the generic SCA answer is 'not enough'.)

One of the things that most pleased me about my discovery of the SCA
was that there were *other people* with large personal libraries on
unusual topics.  

In many years as a military family carting books from here to there,
the movers have never believed us when we said "You'll need about 100
book boxes."  They think "They can't possibly mean 100, they must
mean 10."  So when the crew gets there on moving day and actually
*sees* our library, someone gets back in the truck and goes back to
the warehouse for another 90 book boxes.

Uncle Sam always said "Throw away (!) old books and magazines before
you move."  I said "You'll have to pry my books out of my cold, dead
fingers first."

Alanna
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Saying of the day: They got the library at Alexandria, but they're
not getting mine!