Processing Formulating and Manifesting. A History of the Present Moment.

History repeats itself, but not exactly, inventing new species and new social paradigms

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In preparing to formulate a fellowship proposal to write an official history of Andersen Design, I am reading historical research papers. The official story is needed to advance the search for board members for the American Designer Craftsmen Museum but the newsletter is a much more immediate way to communicate. Practicality dictates: Let both streams merge and influence each other.

The London Society of Correspondence is an early historical newsletter started by working class entrepreneurs in the 18th century and described as drawing “largely upon working men (artisans, tradesmen, and shopkeepers). The London Society of Correspondence was preceded by an early institutional version of the newsletter called Secret Committee of Correspondence organized by the Continental Congress to communicate with sympathetic Britons and other Europeans early in the American Revolution. It eventually led to the establishment of the US Department of Foreign Affairs

The Continental …