The cover to Betty Hill’s 1995 self-published book A Common Sense Approach to UFOs, featuring her and “Junior,” a ceramic bust of one of the aliens she encountered in 1961. The subject of my research: the Betty and Barney Hill Papers. On those two days, I visited the Milne Special Collections and Archives at the University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Dimond Library, spending the night in between at my aunt and uncle’s in New Hampshire.
BETTY AND BARNEY HILL DOG ARCHIVE
But those short trip experiences would finally end on July 6 and 7, 2022, when I conducted research at an archive several hours away, over multiple days. Smith (due out from Hippocampus Press in summer 2023).Īll of those visits were a day or less at the site in question, requiring under an hour of transit to get there. Lovecraft papers for the final research of a book on Lovecraft’s links to astronomy I co-authored with Horace A.
BETTY AND BARNEY HILL DOG FULL
Twenty minutes away, I spent a full day at Brown University’s John Hay Library going through their H. Forty-five minutes south, I spent a morning at the Newport Tower Museum listening to the owner’s unique take on the provenance of the eponymous colonial-era windmill across the street. Moving to Fall River, Massachusetts at the start of 2022, I had a chance for some additional research day trips. 3 Be on the lookout for an upcoming episode about my Glawackus hunt on The Impossible Archive, a podcast I co-host with Contingent editor Bill Black. Visiting my parents in my hometown, I spent a more productive morning at the Historical Society of Glastonbury looking through their collection related to the Glawackus, a local cryptid from the 1930s. While living in Queens, I made a half-day trip to the New-York Historical Society to look through their Flat Earth-related documents (a bust). Since the outbreak of the pandemic, however, I had still managed brief sojourns to local archives. Needless to say, that trip never happened, even before the University of Cape Town’s special collections were ravaged by a 2021 fire. In fall 2019, I began to plan my return to the archive the following summer, hoping to make it to Cape Town, South Africa, to begin work on what would be my dissertation spinoff, a monograph on the history of the Flat Earth movement. 1 My last major research trip had been for my dissertation and was in 2016. All photos provided by the author.Įven before the COVID-19 pandemic began, I considered my time at “the archive”-that place where scholars sift through records and publications-to have come to a pause. The University of New Hampshire Dimond Library in Durham, NH.
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