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Hello All, I was very excited when I learned the American West was finally online. I have been waiting ever since it was announced. The reason is that my grandpa spent time in Colorado, New Mexico, and Idaho from about 1900 - 1910. He and his wife sometimes performed in Opera Houses. He mainly dabbled in silver mining. His sister and a brother lived there all of their adult lives. When my cousin Paul Egan passed away several years ago, my mother was given all of the photographs, some were labeled while others she was able to identify. So I began searching all of the towns I could remember being mentioned. One town was Del Norte where my great Aunt Jen (Colorado Jen) and Uncle Clarence Egan lived at one time. She taught school there and I had an old photograph of the school with Aunt Jen and her students pictured in front. To my delight, I found a similar picture in the collection along with an exact photograph of the Middaugh general store on the main street of town. I have more exploring to do with over 30,000 photographs. Also my colleague and I recently completed an activity to go along with a book, titled, Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B. Johnson. The story is based on a passge from Walden by Henry David Thoreau. We used many resources from the American Memory Collections to build the activity, including photographs of the transcendentalists and their homes, railroad maps, and town maps. Check out the site: http://www.cyberbee.com/henryhikes/henry.html Linda Linda C. Joseph Columbus Public Schools Library Media Specialist 737 East Hudson Street http://www.cyberbee.com Columbus, Ohio 43211 Work: 614-365-5278 Fax:614-365-8252