She does research largely for friends, but she also is a professional. We usually take the 25-mile journey to Salt Lake City once a week, traveling through the beautiful Wasatch bench, as they call it here. I have a new book, The Gilded Age Press, 1865-1900, in press with Greenwood. It should be out in 2001, part four of a seven-volume history of the American press. I am not writing the other volumes.
Retirement is great, isn t it.
We will leave soon to drive to Washington, D.C., for a week in the Library of Congress, then we will spend two weeks in Virginia at timeshares with friends from here and Placentia. The note from Orr Ramsay was touching. Our greetings to everyone. We get back to Placentia at least twice a year but seldom at the time of Emeriti meetings. We did attend the celebration of George Mastroianni s life.