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Technospeak I BRING TO YOU an historical note: peared. (It had to be retyped.) We spent imagine what the man thought was being The American Museum of Fly hours and hours fiddling and adjusting said to him. Fishing has now entered the com- and commanding our monster with The memory of that scene and some puter age. The issue of The Amer- timid authority only to have our efforts minor technicalvictoriesfueled us through ican Fly Fisher you hold in your erased or twisted into bizarre symbols by the home stretch of production, so we hands marks the near completion some secret logic (illogic is more like it). were finally able to print the Spring 1991 of our transition from the relativelv Finally, after months of stretching our issue of The American Fly Fisher, which primitive method by which we formerly brains to the breaking point - having left was devoted to the salmon in honor of published this journal to our almost- the office many days with pounding our new exhibit "The World of the Salmon." hearty embrace of modern technology. headaches and crabby children attached Though there are still some technical And what a saga it's been. No more will to our legs -but more grimly determined snags to work out, this issue, Summer 1991 we send off manuscripts edited in blue to persevere, it was decided that we would (volume 17, number 2), was produced pencil to some nice, distant typesetting purchase a new font that would supply with less travail and hand-wringing, and operation, to be returned for corrections us with an elegant typeface and a new a full and interesting one it is. It gives me and rough layout. No - with this new "look for the journal. But once it was personal pleasure to feature a profile of system we will assume entire technical installed, more nagging, seemingly un- the Derrydale Press and Eugene Connett, responsibility for production, from solvable problems cropped up, the biggest the famed publisher, excerpted from the manuscript stage to makeup of the final of which was the three-quarter em dash. book The Derrydale Press by the Angler's pages used by the printer. A three-quarter em dash is a small, and Shooter's Press. Not only is the ex- Comfortable as we were with the status simple typographic feature that is not cerpt a fascinating picture of an ad- quo, the art director, Randall Perkins, and quite an em dash, but a little bigger than mirable man and his remarkable publish- I circled warily around the newly pur- a mere hyphen. An unassuming feature ing achievements, but my former boss chased ivory-colored machine compo- that no one gives a second thought to Nick Lyons graciously agreed to write an nents of our desktop publishing system until one cannotget the computer to print eloquent introduction that provides us last fall. It sat unconnected for months it, because, of course, it is not on the with a unique perspective on one facet of in our oftices until we could put off our standard keyboard and one must punch the publishing industry so important to postgraduate studies no longer. Tutored in several obscure codes to obtain such the very being of this museum: the pub- by the inimitable Fred, who sold us the "special" font features. One cannot even lication of sporting books. damn thing, I dug into battle with a fussy, get the computer technicians to under- John Monnett has written a grand his- obstinate scanner that is supposed to read stand: a) what a three-quarter em dash is torical account of Lewis B. France, an manuscript pages and convert those ("It's right in your brochure!!"), and b) attorney whose articles on fly fishing in words into computer files I can access. our need for such a dash. the West put Colorado on the map in the Randall, attempting to format the mag- So simple, yet so hair-pullingly impos- late 1800s. Controversy seems inherent to azine's typographic design, purchased a sible. A sinking Randall confessed her son our fly-fishing world: in our Notes & 750-page "tip" book that was supposed heard her muttering something that Comment section, David Zincavage takes to untangle the jabberwocky of the 520- sounded suspiciously like "three-quarter exception to Colonel Bates's theory about page manual provided to her. em" in her sleep. the Jock Scott originating from Lady Yellow Post-Its bearing scribbled, unin- And then one memorable morning Scott's locks (Fall 1990). We were sad- telligible notes were stuck to every surface Fred was persuaded by us to call - yet dened at the end ofApril by the loss ofthe of our office, like so many desperate but- again- one of the many emergency legendary Lee Wulff; Joe Pisarro has writ- terflies, for we not only had to learn the numbers cited in the brochures. (These ten a warm remembrance of our friend. language of our new computer system, joints are usually in California, three And you'll find other pearls inside as well. bewilderingly enough like Chinese in hours behind our local time.) He waited I hope you enjoy our efforts. Despite and of itself, but become proficient with until a decent hour and dialed, while we my cynical tone, we are only slightly three layers of computer programming, fooled ineffectuallywith the machine and bruised from all the aforementioned in- all the while trying to honor our duty- listened with half an ear. "Hello," he said, tellectual combat with technology; the bound promise to publish this journal on "We have a blah-blah-blah system and we truth is we are genuinely excited by the schedule. We didn't even know how to can't seem to find the three-quarter em possibilities that lie ahead for this hand- phrase questions to the computer tech- dash." A pause. "Ummm, yeah. We don't some journal. nician's answering machine (you usually know how to get the three-quarter em And now when you browse these pages don't get a human being until the third dash." Silence. "We need to access the and come across a three-quarter em dash stage of telephone query), and we soon three-quarter em dash!" Silence. "We want -the dashes that precede and end this discovered the truth of the idiot's maxim: to insert a three-quarter em dash!" A clause - you'll have an inkling of just if you can't pose the question, you don't curious, thoughtful silence. "Who am I what went into its birth. get the answer. talking to?" A most profound silence. We'd like to hear from all of you. Oh, During the "learning curve" (as our Then, slowly, "The Silver City Cafe??!" and might one of you know how to insert excruciating process is termed by faintly Click. a semi-bold umlaut? sadistic comvuter whizzes)., , one entire Yes. he had been talking" to a dishwasher MARGOTPAGE article scheduled for Spring 1991 disap- at some California fern bar. One can only EDITOR THEAMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLYFISHING Journal of d~he~merican Museum of Fly Fishing Preserving a Rich Heritage SUMMER 1991 VOLUME 17 NUMBER 2 for Future Generations 2 TRUSTEES In Memoriam: Lee Wulff 1905-1991 .............. Foster Bam Ian D. Mackay Joe A. Pisarro William Barrett Bob Mitchell Bruce H. Begin Wallace J. Murray I11 Paul Bofinger Wayne Nordberg Recommended Reading: An Angler's Album ......... 4 Lewis M. Borden I11 Leigh H. Perkins Robert R. Buckmaster Romi Perkins Tom Rosenbauer Donn H. Byrne, Sr. Allan R. Phipps Roy D. Chapin, Jr. 0.Miles Pollard Calvin P. Cole Susan A. Popkin Lewis B. France: Pioneer Fly Fishing Writer ......... 6 Peter Corbin Dr. Ivan Schloff Charles R Eichel Paul Schullery John H. Monnett G. Dick Finlay Frederic A. Sharf W. Michael Fitzgerald Stephen Sloan Arthur T. Frey Wallace Stenhouse, Jr. Gallery: Glenn Miller Rod and Larry Gilsdorf Arthur Stern Edward R. Hewitt Fly Collection ..............11 Gardner L. Grant Dr. Ralf Stinson William Herrick Forrest Straight Curtis Hill John Swan Eugene V. Connett I11 and The Derrydale Press 12 Dr. Arthur Kaemmer James Taylor ....... Robert J. Kahn Ralph J. Tingle The Angler's and Shooter's Press Woods King 111 James W. Van Loan Martin D. Kline Sam Van Ness Me1 Kreiger Dickson L. Whitney The Barton Dry Fly Reel ....................20 Richard F. Kress Earl S. Worsham David B. Ledlie Edward G. Zern Jurgen Preylowski OFFICERS Chairman of the Board The "True" Original Jock Scott ...All Three Leigh H. Perkins ofThem ............................22 President Foster Bam J. David Zincavage Vice Presidents William Herrick, Arthur Stern Museum News ........................ 27 Treasurer Wayne Nordberg Secretary Letters .............................. 30 Wallace Murray I11 Assistant Secretary/Clerk Contributors .........................- 32 Charles R. Eichel STAFF ON THE COVER: Executive Director Flyfishing in nineteenth-century Colorado, near Silverton. The writer Lewis Donald S. Johnson Executive Assistant B. France introduced many sports of the Gilded Age to the streams and high Virginia Hulett lakes of the Rocky Mountain West. Photograph courtesy of the Colorado Curator/DevelopmentAssistant Historical Society. Alanna D. Fisher Research/Publicity Joe A. Pisarro The American Fly~Fisher The American Fly Fisher is published Editor four times a year by the Museum at P.O. Box 42, Manchester, Vermont 05254. Publication dates are winter, spring, summer, and fall. 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