Around 2005 or so, Dad gave me a big, cardboard box of papers that turned out to be all the letters between his parents and siblings and himself, as well as, genealogical information the family had scraped together in the pre-internet era on Sparlins, together with the scrapbook "Glimpses" that my grandmother assembled on my grandfather's many accomplishments. Grandmother continued to add photocopies, articles and pictures by mail to this book over the years. When Dad realized his mind was failing (as a consequence of Parkinson's disease) and that I was interested in pursuing family research, he gave me this box, and I, being the grand procrastinator that I am, stored it away and never looked through it carefully...until now.
Somehow I need to share this gold mine, but I'm not sure how to do it effectively. While I ponder, I will try to share bits now and then, like this one about my uncle, who is pretty awesome...from a family of awesome.
"Miss James was fortunate in her accompanist, Dale Sparlin, head of the music department at St. George's School, whose support was always sensitive but never obtrusive. Sparlin made his own contribution to the program with the brilliantly projected offertory, Cesar Franck's 'Prelude, Fugue and Variation,' one of the favorites in the organ repertory."
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