The Archive
Reading room closed · Accession in progress
The next batch of files are being checked against the ledger. The room opens on the first of every month.
There are 4 accounts in preparation, given to the Institute. They are testimonies: a person came in, sat down, and said what had happened to them, and somebody wrote it down. We print them whole, including the parts that do not fit, with the investigator's notes underneath.
They will be filed by the date of the report rather than the date we publish them. The first one you read will therefore be the oldest thing that happened, which is not the first thing anybody found out about. That ordering is the point.
In preparation
Opens 1 October
She ran the post office. She dealt in facts. She went the long way home all that winter.
Opens 8 October
The physician who went looking for a diagnosis and found a pattern instead.
Opens 15 October
Eleven seasons reading the same drainages, and one afternoon that did not fit any of it.
Opens 22 October
The county wrote its explanation in eleven days. He has been writing his ever since.
The founders' own accounts open first, one a week. After those come the files they collected from other people, also one a week, with a new batch beginning on the first of every month.
Members receive each account on the morning it is released. The app is free.
In the meantime: the field guide, or the eleven people who started this.