The Surratt Courier

[Wesley Harris]

Happy a new Surratt Courier is out today. I like to see the articles from way back before I joined the Surratt Society in 2009. It will be my first time reading them. However, we're seeing entire issues of old articles simply because no one is submitting new material.

It's important that research continue. I realize this is not the 2010s when the Surratt Society was going strong and Laurie Verge was receiving more articles than she could fit into a monthly issue. The Society is not the same; the Surratt Museum is not the same. Even this discussion board is not as prolific as it once was.

I'm one to talk, having written much less for the Courier in recent years than I did in the past. I wrote one article a couple of issues back on what some long-time members are researching. We need to keep the networking going. We need to read about what others are doing in their research, what new books are out. We need new material. I encourage anyone who can, please submit articles, member updates, whatever to Louise Oerthy, editor/president. The Courier is vital in keeping this community alive.