This record is incomplete, and shall remain forever so. Our feeble
efforts
here to
uncover and document our history are surely doomed to
failure.
Too many
facts have been forgotten, too many events gone unrecorded
or
recorded in
error, too many secrets withheld and
taken to the grave.
Yet, we must try. For in trying we discover, bit by bit, who we are.
May God be our guide on this journey into our past;
and may this
uncertain
path lead
us to
a bright future!
-- Earl Savage 09/09/2004
