I found it interesting that the book talked about Muncie. Of course if I were writing about Ball Fruit Jars, I’d be sitting on a hotbed of information. Unfortunately, there isn’t so much history or information available about my subgroup in Muncie!

“Archives” seems to be a less than concrete noun. You can call a junk collection in your grandma’s attic an archive, but you can also call the Smithsonian an archive. These hardly seem related. Granted if you were doing a family history project the attic junk may be a more important source of information. However an unorganized collection of things can hardly be compared with the catalogued and intricately organized archives of a museum. Either way as I read about all these archives I am struggling with how to relate the information to my project.

The dumpster diving article was a little ridiculous. Obviously this man is a perfectly capable writer. Instead of telling us how to scavenge for food why not tell us how to write well. Bona fide idiot. By closing his essay acting like he had found some “better way” than those watching late night cable he made me officially ANGRY for even reading the article. They may not find a good show but they aren’t fighting the “big D” because they ate trash. Thanks for not contributing to the economy.