The E-Sylum v15#34 August 12, 2012

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The E-Sylum

  An electronic publication of
  The Numismatic Bibliomania Society

Volume , Number 34, August 12, 2012
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM AUGUST 12, 2012
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REPORT ON THE 2012 PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION NBS MEETINGS
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E-SYLUM WINS NLG AWARD FOR BEST TRADE WEB SITE
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DICK JOHNSON WINS MCA CARL CARLSON CATALOGING AWARD MEDAL 
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VINCENT ALONES COLLECTION CATALOG AVAILABLE
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BOOK REVIEW: REEDED EDGE HALF DOLLARS 1836-1839
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REPORTS FROM THE 2012 PHILADELPHIA ANA SHOW
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QUIZ ANSWER: NOAH'S ARK ON COINS
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DAVID DAVIS FAMILY ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH FOR HIS MISSING COINS
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THE FAMOUS BEALE CIPHERS
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NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 12, 2012
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ENCASED POSTAGE STAMPS!
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THE “NACH AMERIKA” TOKENS OF NUREMBERG
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WAYNE'S NUMISMATIC DIARY: AUGUST 12, 2012
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SOME LOTS FROM THE ANA STACKS-BOWERS SALES
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THE SIEGE OF STRASBOURG
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FEATURED WEB PAGE: EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL NICKELS 
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WAYNE'S WORDS: THE E-SYLUM AUGUST 12, 2012

New subscribers this week include 
Franky Leeuwerck,
Michael Märcher and
Harold Kroll.
Welcome aboard!
We have 1,579 email subscribers, plus 188 followers on Facebook.

This week we open with news from NBS events at this week's ANA convention, some awards issued at the show, an announcement of the catalog of the Vincent Alones Collection, a book review, and more reports from convention attendees on multiple subjects.

Other topics include Noah's Ark on coins, the search for David Davis' missing Bust Dimes, the Nach Amerika jetons, and the siege coins of Strasbourg.
To learn more about  Vince Alones' mustache, extra-terrestrial nickels, the Beale Ciphers and  the Wrong Week to Give Up Sniffing Books, read on.
Have a great week, everyone!

Wayne Homren
Editor, The E-Sylum

REPORT ON THE 2012 PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION NBS MEETINGS

Numismatic Bibliomania Society President Dan Freidus submitted this report on NBS events at the recently-concluded American Numismatic Association convention in Philadelphia.  Thanks!
-Editor

NBS events went well at this week's ANA convention in Philadelphia. On Thursday, about 40 people attended our symposium which was a panel discussion about "Auction catalogs from various perspectives" 
For details, see:

www.coinbooks.org/events 
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Following that the NBS Board met for its annual business meeting. The board voted to contribute $1000 to the ANA library (as we have done before) and to donate $5000 to the ANS library, a significant increase over our past contributions. This decision was the result of discussing both NBS' strong financial position and current needs in the ANS library. I have been told that it is most likely to help the ANS restore a part-time cataloger position that was at risk. Cataloging, of course, is essential to make acquisitions accessible to library users. If you are ever in New York, I strongly recommend that you plan to visit the ANS and spend time in the library. The great collection and helpful staff makes research there productive and quite fast. 

On Friday, the NBS general meeting was also well attended, also by almost 40 people.  Treasurer David Sundman reported that our membership increased by about 15 members, helped by articles about NBS written by Brad Karoleff and Joel Orosz in Coin World,  and Wayne Homren in The E-Sylum.

We were very pleased to announce winners of this year's NBS awards for articles in The Asylum.  James Higby won the "Jack Collins Award for Best New Writer in the Asylum 2011" for his article, "Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Give Up Sniffing Books".  Pete Smith won the first "Joel J. Orosz NBS Writer's Award for Best Article in the Asylum" 2011 for his article "Three Degrees of Dave Bowers".  

Kerry Wetterstrom of The Celator and Steve Roach of Coin World  discussed the challenges and future of numismatic publishing. It was quite intriguing to hear the similarities (and a few differences) between the running of a quarterly publication for a smaller somewhat more specialized audience and  running a weekly/monthly publication with a larger audience. 

We then concluded the meeting with an auction of about two dozen donated lots which raised $3420. This auction is a big part of why NBS remains financially strong every year and can keep dues low while also being able to support two important numismatic libraries.  This is made possible by the donors (Dan Hamelberg, Pierre Fricke, Whitman Publishing, George Kolbe, Dennis Tucker, and myself), buyers, and those people who are sometimes overlooked but are crucial to any auction: the underbidders.

NBS also had information and membership applications at the American Numismatic Society's table. I personally signed up a new member (well, a lapsed member returning to the fold) and, hopefully, our outreach will produce a few more members from this year's ANA convention. Unfortunately, I never actually got to the one exhibit in the numismatic literature class so I'll have to leave that to another attendee to describe. 

I encourage all members to consider exhibiting literature at the ANA or regional conventions as well as writing for the Asylum. Please get in touch with me or any board member or David Yoon, our editor if you are considering writing an article and have any questions.

I also heard thru the grapevine about ...

... the brown bag lot George Kolbe dropped off which went for $900 and the hotly  contested Lincoln VanDerBlatt tome that went for $1100.

Perhaps some of the attendees can fill us in on the details next week.  -Editor

E-SYLUM WINS NLG AWARD FOR BEST TRADE WEB SITE

Wow!  We won an award at the American Numismatic Association convention in Philadelphia this week.   When I talked to Joel Orosz on the phone he said "I'm sure you've already heard the news through your vast network of stoolies and snitches, but..."

And in fact I had - David Schenkman and David Sundman forwarded photos of the plaque issued by the Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) naming The E-Sylum the Best Trade Press Web Site.

It's a great honor, especially considering the level of competition out there.  We're just a spare-time one-man show, but of course what really drives our success is the participation of our readers, who comprise some of the best numismatists in the world.  There's no numismatic topic too common or too obscure to touch on, and we can count on getting authoritative answers to tough questions, and some great numismatic stories, all while having a little bit of fun each week.  Thanks!

To learn more about the 
Numismatic Literary Guild (NLG) - not to be confused with our organization, the Numismatic Bibliomania Society (NBS), see:

www.nlgonline.org

DICK JOHNSON WINS MCA CARL CARLSON CATALOGING AWARD MEDAL 

Our regular contributor Dick Johnson received an award as well.  Congratulations!
-Editor

The Medal Collectors of America awarded D. Wayne Johnson  (our frequent writer "Dick Johnson") their Carl Carlson Medal Thursday, August 9 at the Philadelphia ANA  convention. It is awarded annually for cataloging medals in the numismatic field.  

The medal, formerly cast as an organizational medal, was created by medallist Alex Shagin. It was made into a 2 1/2-inch (64mm) die recently; this is the first struck piece from that die. It was customized by date 2012 inscribed on the obverse and the name of the medal and the recipient's name on the reverse.

Dick did not have time to send a close-up photo of the medal,  but had an oil painting sent showing him holding the medal.

VINCENT ALONES COLLECTION CATALOG AVAILABLE

Tom Kays forwarded a link to the new catalog of the Vincent W. Alones Collection (session 1), to be held at the 2012 Virginia Numismatic Association convention in Fredericksburg on September 29th.  Vince was a longtime regular at the ANA conventions and NBS events,
The catalog and all the lot pictures are available for viewing at the VNA website.  See:

vnaonline.org/images/Alones-Catalog-for-VNA.pdf
.  Here's are some excerpts.
-Editor

Vincent W. Alones was born August 23, 1916 to Lithuanian immigrants, in Long Island City, NY. Vince grew up in New York and graduated in 1934 from Sewanaka High School in Floral Park, NY. He joined the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor and served more than 4 years in the Naval Guard and then aboard a PT boat in the Philippines. After the war he resumed working for the Long Island Railroad, married Agnes Rose Jeckewicz, started his family, and together they became pillars in their community of Floral Park Centre as well as nationally prominent members of the numismatic community.

Agnes was born in Wilkes-Barre, PA, Feb. 5, 1924 to Lithuanian parents. The oldest of nine siblings, she helped raise them as the family moved back and forth between Wilkes-Barre and Detroit, Michigan. During WWII, she worked in Detroit factories making tanks and airplanes, a real life “Rosie the Riveter.”

Vince starting coin collecting in 1926 and continued all his life. His interests and scholarship were wide and varied and he shared them generously. Vince won over 200 prizes in numismatic competitions, became an American Numismatic Association (ANA) judge, and trained and certified judges. Vince served as assistant general chairman at the ANA's 1976 Convention in NYC. He won an ANA Presidential Award and the Medal of Merit. Agnes and Vince became Numismatic News – “Numismatic Ambassadors” in 1975. He joined more than 30 organizations of the collecting hobbies as well as veterans support organizations with Agnes. He was a 50 year member of the local volunteer Fire Department. 

Vince's accomplishments were supported every step of the way by Agnes who supplied energy, humor and encouragement to all their friends and activities. They were especially proud of the Young Numismatists programs they helped initiate. They rarely missed an ANA convention since 1952, traveling extensively throughout the lower 48 states to attend and enjoying the opportunity to reconnect with old friends who shared their passion for collecting. 

In 2008, Vince left Floral Park and moved to Lynchburg to be with Agnes. He quickly joined the Lynchburg Coin Club and connected with the Lynchburg veteran's community. His enthusiasm for numismatics remained undiminished until the end. Vincent William Alones, 95, died at his home in Lynchburg, Virginia, Feb. 1, 2012, on the 64th anniversary of his marriage to Agnes Rose Jeckewicz, who died October 16, 2009. He is survived by his daughter, Vinessa Alones and son-in-law Jim Fraley of Lynchburg and son, Vincent P. Alionis and his wife, Mary of Grants Pass, Oregon. Grandchildren are AJ and Eric Fraley and Zosha and Kazimer Alionis.

Coincidently, today I came across an overlooked note in my email from George Cuhaj, who had earlier forwarded two nice photos of Vince and his trademark mustache.  Thanks, and sorry for the delay,  Here they are:
-Editor

To read the earlier E-Sylum articles, see:

VINCENT W. ALONES, 1916 - 2012

(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n22a08.html)

MORE ON VINCENT W. ALONES

(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n23a09.html)

BOOK REVIEW: REEDED EDGE HALF DOLLARS 1836-1839

In the August 12, 2012 issue of the  JR Newsletter from the John Reich Collectors Society
Jim Matthews provided this review of a presentation at the American Numismatic Association convention in Philadelphia where author Dick Graham gave a presentation based on his new book on the Reeded Edge Half Dollars of 1836 to 1839.
-Editor

The JRCS meeting took place on Wednesday morning and Dick Graham gave the presentation based on his long awaited and just published new reference book on the Reeded Edge Half Dollars of 1836 to 1839. This series records the dramatic changes undergoing at the Mint, from the adoption of the long dreamed steam operated coining press, to the opening of the first branch mint for silver coinage (New Orleans). 

Further changes include Gobrecht's gradual introduction of his new Seated Liberty design, which was delayed in the half dollars until 1839. 

Meanwhile, the half dollar was such an important monetary coin (in fact half dollars were the backbone of most banking and economic transactions during this period) that production had to continue. Dies were prepared from hubs, with only the final digit added in by hand to record the current year. Finishing touches to the dies were also done by hand to strengthen various design elements when needed. 

Dick Graham's long awaited book is a welcome addition to any advanced library and now the information on particular die pairings is available to any collector, as well as their rarity ratings.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:

NEW BOOK: REEDED EDGE HALF DOLLARS 1836-1839

(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n32a04.html)

REPORTS FROM THE 2012 PHILADELPHIA ANA SHOW

People are trickling home from this week's big convention of the American Numismatic Association in Philadelphia, PA.  Here are a other notes readers have sent in for us.  Thanks, everyone!
-Editor

Pete Smith writes:

Just a single exhibit was shown in the Numismatic Literature class at the Philadelphia ANA. P. Scott Rubin presented "American Numismatic Literature of the 1850's. Included were four publications from the decade of the 1850's.

Paul Hybert writes:

A version of the Exhibit guide is available at

www.chicagocoinclub.org/events/2012/ana/ex/all.by.cl.html

but this needs a few little touchups (removing the sections for the three classes in which no exhibits were entered, for instance).  Also, the awards are not yet entered.

Alan V. Weinberg writes:

I had approached the Philadelphia ANA with trepidation after seeing and hearing and sensing the economic fear and "hands in the pockets" atmosphere of recent shows .

Well, all I can say is the hobby is alive and well and dealers and collectors attended with great enthusiasm and an open wallet. The atmosphere was one of excitement and anticipation. I did not hear any negative or even mediocre comments.

StacksBowers had a literally "standing room only" Battle Born collection auction session of Carson City coins. I acquired the unique Mexican War entirely hand -engraved gold medal in the Rarities Night session. If nothing else happened, that was enough to place me on cloud nine.

There was a  healthy attendance of overseas dealers and the variety of items for sale on the bourse floor was akin to a candy shop for kids. Like last year's Chicago ANA, the bourse was so large I just could not see every booth.

Numismatics is alive and well.

Here's an excerpt from the lot description.  See a separate article in this issue for a few other lots that caught my eye.
-Editor

Unpublished Gold Mexican War Award Medal

Voted by New York State in January 1849 Presented to General Ward B. Burnett, August 20, 1853

Unmarked, but probably struck from coin gold, .900 fine. Integral jump ring at 12 o'clock, fancy hanger in the shape of a vertical figure-eight with a hand-engraved and decorated belt charm attached. Entirely hand-engraved with designs imitative of the earlier medal authorized by the Common Council of the City of New York, designed by C.C. Wright. Legends unique to this medal, on obverse CHERUBUSCO, CHAPULTEPEC, VERA CRUZ, CERRO GORDO, CONTRERAS. GARITA DE BELIN. around the periphery, 1846-48 below the central device of America heaving a thunderbolt into Vera Cruz. 

On the reverse, the periphery reads: "Presented by the New York Volunteers, To Bv't Brig. Gen. Ward B. Burnett." around the seal of the City of New York. Beautifully engraved in banknote-style intaglio on flat fields surrounded by a high square raised rim. Unlike the struck medals presented by the City of New York in 1848, this piece does not bear the signature of C.C. Wright, leading us to assume that it was not engraved by him like the dies for its earlier predecessor. Needless to say, whomever engraved this was a very competent engraver, likely based in New York City.

Gold Mexican War Award Medal
Presented to General Ward B. Burnett

To view the complete lot description, see:

stacksbowers.com/Auctions/AuctionLot.aspx?LotID=370154

Alan adds:

One exasperating aspect of the ANA was the joint ANS/ANA exhibit. Last year 's exhibit error was repeated again this year. Incredible rarities were exhibited in vertical -standing wood and glass cases. The coins were standing upright on little plastic easels. The lighting came from small fluorescent lighting two feet or so  directly above the coins.

Now common sense and a quick visual look will tell you that all you will see is a round dark shadow of a coin exhibited in this manner and even if you bend down below the coin on bent legs you can barely make out the coin's design. It was so obvious that the proper and effective way to exhibit the coins was to lay them down flat on the glass and let the light expose the entire coin's surface rather than  hit the top rims of the coin and create a dark shadow.

THE BOOK BAZARRE
DAVID SKLOW - FINE NUMISMATIC BOOKS offers Mail Bid Sale No. 17 on 
October 6, 2012, including:

A series of ANA Convention Badges of all Conventions held in Detroit [1913-1994] - including the extremely rare 1913 Badge with Civil War Token attachment

www.finenumismaticbooks.com.
PH: (719) 302-5686, FAX: (719) 302-4933.  EMAIL: numismaticbooks at aol.com. USPS: Box 6321, Colorado Springs, CO. 80934. Contact me for your numismatic literature needs! 

QUIZ ANSWER: NOAH'S ARK ON COINS

Last week I asked if Noah's Ark had the subject of a coin before Armenia's new 2012 500 Dram coin.   I figured the answer was an easy "yes", and now E-Sylum readers had identified several examples for us.   These would make a nice adjunct to any Coins of the Bible collection.  Thanks, everyone!
-Editor

Leon Saryan   writes:

Noah's Ark appears on virtually every coin issued by the Republic of Armenia from 1994 to date.  If the Republic's redesigned coat of arms is present on the coin, the Ark appears in the center of the shield resting upon the taller of the two peaks of Mt. Ararat.

Yossi Dotan writes:

All coins of Armenia, including the one depicted by you, feature the nation's coat-of-arms on the obverse. Its shield shows Mount Ararat. A short line on the top of the mountain represents the Ark.

Israel issued three coins in 5758 (1998 C.E.) that depict Noah in the Ark, stretching out his hand from the window to release a dove—1 new sheqel (KM-316), 2 new sheqalim (KM-317), and 10 new sheqalim (KM-319). 

Niue issued a 1/33-dollar coin in 2010 (KM-481). The reverse depicts the Genesis story of the Flood as shown on the Sistine Chapel vault in the Vatican. The vault shows the Ark. The coin may have it as well.

Vatican City's 10 lire 1975 (Y-127) features Noah in the Ark looking at the dove returning to the Ark with a fresh olive leaf in its beak. The 20 euro 2002 (Y-361) depicts violent men and animals against the background of the Ark, prior to the Flood.

There is also a ducat of the city of Regensburg in Germany of 1649 (Fr.-2469a).

Of course, there may be many more.

Jay Galst writes:

The first coin with the depiction of Noah's ark was the Roman Provincial issue from Apamea in Phrygia 217-18 AD. Macrinus was the emperor on the obverse of this specimen.

This coin was displayed in the 2007 Exhibit: PICTURING THE BIBLE, THE EARLIEST CHRISTIAN ART, at the Kimball Art Museum in Ft Worth, Texas.

It was also in the 2008 Exhibit: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLICITUDE - COLLECTING BY THE NEW YORK NUMISMATIC CLUB, at the ANS in New York City. This was in the inaugural exhibit in the new location of the ANS.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:

NOTES FROM E-SYLUM READERS: AUGUST 5, 2012: Armenia's New Noah's Ark Coin

(www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n33a08.html)

DAVID DAVIS FAMILY ACCOUNT OF THE SEARCH FOR HIS MISSING COINS

Phil Carrigan wrote in the August 12 JR Newsletter:

Today I shared with my wife Mary Clare part of John McCloskey's article on the Davis Bust Dime Collection.  The part I read from John's neat article concerned the 63 missing dimes which Janet Davis couldn't locate.  Her approach to invite family members to do a complete search resulted in finding the coins.  The coins were found well hidden in a place no burglar would have found.
What was Mary Clare's response?  Where was the hiding place?  I am now committed to asking John for this bit of key information!

Well, on Wednesday web site visitor Ellen Waara wrote:

I enjoyed reading your article last night, the night that David Davis' coins were auctioned at ANA.   Attached is the article that I (his daughter of 42 years) wrote about the search and find of the 63 missing coins.

Wow - thank you very much!  This is a great personal follow-up to the story, and also answers Mary Clare Carrigan's question.  The hobby is grateful for the Davis family's efforts and good fortune in rescuing Dave's coins.  He will be missed, but his memory will live on in the collections of future numismatists.
-Editor

Saturday was a stellar day at the Davis house. Uncle Darby was visiting from Pittsburgh. Josh celebrated his 17th birthday with five friends. It was 46 degrees, and there was talk afoot of renting a metal detector.

David’s rarest dimes, one of a kinds featured in the book he’d authored with three other numismatists, were missing. Last we’d heard, he’d hidden them somewhere upstairs, before his last ANA coin convention in New York. That was over a year ago, and he didn’t remember where. Now he was gone. The guy who always had the answer to my every question wasn’t there to ask.

Still, I pestered him anyway. I’d ask the sky when we’d walk (he prefers mornings, I like dusk).
 -- Where are they, David? Now that you can go anywhere, find ‘em please.
-- Don’t worry, they’re in the computer room. It’s taken care of, he’d reply.-- Okay, I’d say, you’re in charge. I’ll have to admit, my faith faltered.

John McCloskey, the executor of the coins, said that the auction houses weren’t as interested in incomplete collections. The rarest ones were gone, and that would depreciate the remaining collection to about 70 percent of the Coin World attributed value.

-- I know, I know, Mom would sigh in frustration as I read aloud each email from John, repeating requests for renewed searching.-- Don’t shoot the messenger, I’d say with relief (she snaps when I nag).

The upstairs rooms under the eaves, and above the garage were David’s domain. Like a lion in his cave, he polished part to perfection: the FROG (fourth room over the garage) was lined with antique bankers bookcases filled with priceless catalogues (to someone, we weren’t entirely sure who). The other side of the hall hoarded empty boxes, tons of paperwork, and unspecified volumes of “stuff”. The task of sorting, peering beneath floor joyces, and rooting through hidden eaves was daunting to say the least.

Saturday, Uncle Darby and I strategized on the phone. He’d been thinking about getting a metal detector.

Mom had given up on the project:
 --“Are you sure he didn’t already sell them for medical bills?” she kept wondering aloud.
 -- No Mom, John would know if he’d sold them, I assured her again.

Josh was preoccupied with whatever a 17 year old boy thinks about (do we even want to know?)

I went off to breakfast with Jan, planning to scout resale for a Flora dress, for my Tennessee Williams lead in the play this weekend. Despite warm weather, my spirits were in a slump.

After breakfast I’d noticed the phone had rung, twice. The line was busy (everyone has call waiting these days, I thought impatiently).

When I called Josh’s cell, he answered (miracle - he only takes texts). His party was fine, and they’d found the coins!

They were stashed behind the computer room bookcase where I’d stood staring for five minutes when last I’d visited. A box was wedged in behind.

Still, John consulted via phone, the oldest ones were missing. Only two existed: he had discovered one, David had the other. I had a flash back to four remote authors meeting in a hotel room central to New York, Ohio and Michigan for 24 hour marathon writing sessions. (Today the signed deluxe copies of their books are collector’s items).

Once Josh was shown how plain and worthless the pirated booty looked, he remembered another box in the loft and scampered up the narrow stairs.
--They’ve been there the whole time, I didn’t think they were worth anything. They just looked old, he explained.

He asked for a 10 percent cut. Darby suggested a vacation. Mom sounded cheerful for the first time in awhile. It was no mystery, David was taking care of her still.

All that day, I could feel my celebrating clan surrounding me, walking with Jan and me as we stretched our legs on the PollyAnna trail.
 --Was this an old railroad bed, Jan asked?
 --Oh yes, I explained, they go all across the state (David had taught me that).

Grandma Davis (David's mom who died last July) was there as we looked for dresses at the resale shop.
 --My Grandma was the Costumier at Toledo University, I bragged. She’ll help me find the right attire.

Aunt Paula (deceased for a decade) was there as we giggled and did girly things. Uncle Smokey and Aunt Madonna were there as I walked into the Pix Theatre for play practice. I got the idea as Aunt Mary and Uncle Al flashed into my mind that this had been a family treasure hunt.

Russ Logan (one of the deceased co-authors) entered my mind from left stage, he had been a part of the great re-discovery. The veils between the dimensions of living and everlasting Soul-dom were leaky that day.

Of course I’ll never know quite how they did it. I suspect that when three or more souls are gathered, there Am I (as Jesus taught manifesting). We call it Master Minding.

I think that even if you are out of your mind (as in no longer in a body) you use the greatest power of love, and focused intention to influence and guide. Dozens of fluttering wings watching over us as we meander, get lost, and remember our way while learning life lessons.

--Take a picture, I insisted. I was to see my Pirate Family with their Booty!

Mostly I want to record this moment of connectivity, a family reunion, to remind us on those days when the veils between here and there are more solid. When I get small, alone, and sad, it will be a good picture to have.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:

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