{"id":3415,"date":"2017-11-11T19:18:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2022-02-16T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:40:05","slug":"who-signed-the-guest-book-day-11-bahai-blogging-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/3415","title":{"rendered":"Who signed the guest book? Day 11 Baha&#8217;i Blogging Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Things I find when cleaning out the Wilmette archives. Look at those top two names!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/8226316381\/in\/album-72157630083024770\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8350\/8226316381_9cf9a6b806.jpg\" alt=\"Things I find when cleaning out the Wilmette archives. Look at those top two names!\" width=\"368\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a>When I lived in Wilmette, I served on the Local Spiritual Assembly for a few years and also served as the Wilmette Archivist. This title was more of an honorary acknowledgement of my natural interest in old things and my organizing ability as the Wilmette community had to move its boxes and books to a storage unit when the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=ms_oOG6ytKEC&amp;pg=PA95&amp;lpg=PA95&amp;dq=%22Baha%27i+home%22+wilmette&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=l_Pz2mci4R&amp;sig=kROHpITF6p0YXfu0IfDHg9OezwQ&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiXs-WI17TXAhWK2YMKHb1kCj4Q6AEIUzAI#v=onepage&amp;q=%22Baha'i%20home%22%20wilmette&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baha&#8217;i Home<\/a> was turned into an office for the Baha&#8217;i National Center. I often regretted not taking more photos and spending more time with the papers in those files. I would love to have the time to completely digitize them and allow people to search through them.<\/p>\n<p>One day I found a guestbook that had a few names on the first page that I recognized. As a child I heard stories about these individuals, and it looks like they came for a visit on the same day from opposite ends of the country. They were both serving as members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada at that time (it split into two different Assemblies in 1948), so I&#8217;m guessing they were in town for a National Spiritual Assembly meeting. It was really special to come across this and imagine them in town, attending some Baha&#8217;i gathering, and signing that guestbook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/338px-Amelia_Engelder_Collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3419 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/338px-Amelia_Engelder_Collins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/338px-Amelia_Engelder_Collins.jpg 338w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/338px-Amelia_Engelder_Collins-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 101px) 100vw, 101px\" \/><\/a>January 11, 1943: <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaikipedia.org\/Amelia_Collins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amelia E. Collins<\/a>; Phoenix, AZ<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/330px-Louis_Gregory.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3418 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/330px-Louis_Gregory.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/330px-Louis_Gregory.png 330w, https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/330px-Louis_Gregory-220x300.png 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>January 11, 1943: <a href=\"https:\/\/bahaikipedia.org\/Louis_Gregory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louis G. Gregory<\/a>; Eliot, ME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lived in Wilmette, I served on the Local Spiritual Assembly for a few years and also served as the Wilmette Archivist. 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