Keeping The Dead Alive - Part 4
....with all that that entails...
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Today, due to a few technical difficulties,
and I just did a little preview of a talk we are going to be doing as one of the first of Harrowings’ podcast feature. When we first launched this effort in earnest last September, it was promised that a podcast would be a part of our offerings and now that is going to come to pass. I’d love to hear your comments also,.In the meantime, all that it entails, keeping the dead alive. It’s the primary purpose of the Harold B Gill Foundation, LLC to do this and here’s how it shakes out for me. My father passed away at the age of 91 last April 7, 2024 as readers of Harrowings will understand. He left a lot of work behind, some published, and some not.
Most easily accessible are his articles in the Colonial Williamsburg Journal.
Works of Harold B. Gill, Jr.
Harold B. Gill, Jr. - historian authored a number of important works on a number of subjects. His primary focus was 18th century Virginia and the bulk of his career was spent at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where he started as a Research Assistant in December 1961. He was 28 years old and moved his wife and infant daughter from Richmond, where he and his wife had both been employed as archivists in the Virginia State Library, to Williamsburg, Virginia where he’d live the rest of his 91 years.
Journal Articles of Harold B. Gill, Jr.
A preview of articles that will be made available through the Harold B Gill Foundation is provided in this latest post on Harrowings.
The two posts embedded here are gateways to that, but there is still more to it. We are all headed in the same direction on the arrow of time and here on a temporary basis. Most of us are aware of this somewhere in the backs of our heads and the course of our lives are often. either overtly or covertly “immortality projects.” To read even more about this concept, I highly recommend The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist. He was most famous for “Terror Management Theory”
The links will provide plenty of information on this, but suffice it to say that “Harrowings” - tilling up the soil of my imagination and facing, unflinchingly, the essential truth of transcience is what this is all about. While there is yet breath in my body, my intention is to do all I can to amplify the signals left behind by not only my late father but the many others who have touched my life and lives of others. To that end, I will be looking for more guests to join me on the Harrowings Podcast. If you have an interest, get in touch! I can be reached here directly.
I am so grateful for all of you being a part of this. We are all in it together.
Onward!