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Since the recent coverage for our Project in THE AMERICAN BAHA’I, we’ve had lots of activity. A continuing upsurge in visitors to the website; adding Andrea to the team; and most recently, adding Matt Percic, archivist for the Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Des Moines; wishing Meghan a grateful goodbye as she steps away…

Great news! Our History Project team has a new member! Andrea is a Physics major at Grinnell College and skilled with computers. She heard my presentation at our Unit Convention and approached me with her interest. Andrea has met with Mike via Zoom and is busy learning about our WordPress site and exploring its nuts…

I hope you’ve had a chance to look through the current issue of THE AMERICAN BAHA’I. It’s exciting to see our young project featured along with two long-standing efforts, in San Francisco and Atlanta, to build and maintain archives for the purpose (quoting staff writer Layli Miron) of “preserving the legacies of spiritual ancestors for…

Dear Friends, I appreciate your patience as I try to keep up with the wealth of material made available to me from the Des Moines Baha’i Archives. I’ll be working through that for months, I’m sure. Not enough hours in the days and weeks, not enough energy for the opportunities! What I’m not seeing much…

Dear Friends, I just returned from a lovely and historic conference in Kansas City–the first ever gathering of all the Assistants to the Auxiliary Board Members for the Prairie States Region. We were blessed to have Counselor Nwandi Lawson with us, as well as all four Auxiliary Board Members who serve the Prairie States: Leila…

Marie Scheffer, who is working on a comprehensive history of the Faith in Sioux City, asked me to post this question for her: I am looking for the correct last name of the woman who was elected to the Assembly in 1972, when Sioux City first tried to form an Assembly which, for various reasons,…