. . .often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible . . .

Archival Quality Communication

AQC for Today, for Tomorrow, and for ever . . . .

Professor Ulrich of Harvard says in a book of her essays published this year:

Some history-making is intentional; much of it is accidental. People make history when they scale a mountain, ignite a bomb, or refuse to move to the back of the bus. But they also make history by keeping diaries, writing letters, or embroidering intitials on linen sheets. History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible. People make history by passing on gossip, saving old records, and by naming rivers, mountains, and children. Some people leave only their bones, though bones too make history when someone notices.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History (New York: Knopf, 2007), p. xxxiii.

This comment that reminds us that history is not always about the big stuff. Like leaves dropping in the forest, that eventually become an entire geological layer of earth, the small acts of our lives may ultimately be more powerful than those wild acts that make the record books. Our bones may send a more powerful message than scaling mountain peaks.

Those shouting the loudest are often those who have an agenda; but political and historical agendas have a way of swinging back and forth until they reach equilibrium. Then we can hear those still, small voices that are much more interesting.

This is an Archival Quality Communication.

James Duvall, M. A.
History Researcher
Boone County Public Library
Burlington, Kentucky