It has been a very long six weeks with no work being done for or with Tombstone Transcription Project. At the beginning of May I had emergency surgery for a large abdominal tumor. The group was willing to go on without me, but at the same time the temperatures soared. No one was willing to get out in 100 degree weather so no actual cemetery work was done.
We had just started work on the Atrisco land grant cemetery, San Jose de Armijo. This cemetery has never had a census of tombstones done and we were thrilled to be asked to do this historic cemetery. But we only got three visits in before illness or the heat stopped us.
The Special Collections library closed its doors mid-May and it wasn't until this week (June 16) that the New Mexico collection was once again available to the public. Our group will now have to go to the Main library to access the books for our work. At least we have some place to go since it is so hot. And we are all anxious to get back to work.
We are scheduled to return to work next Friday, June 25 on the second floor of Main. The only downside of the move is the parking. There is a 2 hour limit on free parking (of course you can pay for longer at $1 per hour) but that isn't fair to my volunteers. So we will shorten our work time from two hours to 1 1/2 hours.
