<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div class="gmail-m_-2162542041339013870gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Maintainers,<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>I wrote a 3,000 word narrative history about the Mississippi levees, slavery, and maintenance during the Civil War era for SHOT&#39;s web-based publication, &quot;Technology&#39;s Stories&quot; (<a href="http://www.technologystories.org/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.technologystories.org</a>). The editors floated the idea of putting together a theme issue of brief, punchy narratives about labor and maintenance to be published in the coming months. I told them I knew just the right listserv to seek other contributors.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested in writing something along these thematic lines, or have a good story from the archives that is burning a hole in your pocket, please send me an email with a brief pitch and we&#39;ll see if we can make this happen.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br class="gmail-m_-2162542041339013870gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">John Dean Davis<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><div>Ph.D. Candidate - Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning</div><div>Harvard University</div><div><a href="mailto:jdavis@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">jdavis@fas.harvard.edu</a></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><a href="http://www.johndeandavis.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.johndeandavis.com</a></div></div></div><br></div>