All Grotto newsletters should be available at the NSS Library in Huntsville.
If not then someone failed to send the NSS a copy.
Preston
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From: "Logan McNatt" <[email protected]>
To: "Mixon Bill" <[email protected]>; "Cavers Texas"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] R.I.P. Speleo Digest
Thanks for the news, Bill, which will mean something only to the older
generations of cavers, many of whom probably still have their collection
of Speleo Digests. They certainly were a good resource in the pre-digital
years, and I'm glad to know that some of them are available online. Thanks
for your part in producing several of them.
On 3/20/2014 7:26 PM, Mixon Bill wrote:
I see from the minutes of the NSS Board of Governors meeting on March 15
that the Speleo Digest series, the last issue of which was for 2003, is
now officially dead. That's a shame, but it seems to acknowledge reality.
The series reprinted the best material out of grotto newsletters during
the title year, and was essentially _the_ library of American caves and
caving. It was started by the Pittsburgh Grotto in 1956. Production was
taken over by the NSS for the 1964 issue.
I edited and prepared two or three issues back around 1970. The amount of
material in each issue has more than doubled since then; the 2003 has
almost 600 pages of three-column small type. On the other hand, I had to
retype everything on a typewriter and assemble the pages with scissors
and paste. Modern technology and the ability to request files for most of
the articles from the publishing grottos ought to have compensated, it
seems to me, but nevertheless getting it out proved to be beyond
volunteers. Of course as the years went by, the interest in working on an
issue years out of date decreased. (The 2003 didn't actually come out
until 2007.)
Without the Speleo Digest, a lot of great cave explorations and maps
published locally are essentially inaccessible. Sigh. -- Bill Mixon
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