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[GWL]: The Old Rodale Press

Some of you old heads writing for Rodale in the 70's and early 80's bring
back a memory of "The Sieve".  Sometime in the late 70's Bob Rodale started
the "Sieve" mostly for internal use by OG staff; folks like Jeff Cox, Gene
Logdson, and Vic Sussman.  The Sieve was a storage room attached to the
library in the new building on Second St.  Another Jeff, a young librarian
was in charge.  He had maybe 1000 storage bins for clippings of articles
from over 1000 magazines, journals, newsletters and such from all over the
world dealing with sustainable agriculture and organic gardening.  Those
were the days of New Alchemy Institute on Cape Cod and the Integral Urban
House in San Francisco, so there were articles about living in a sustainable
property.  When I got my first book contract in 81, I was invited to use the
Sieve and I thought I had died and gone to heaven.  I spent days up in
Emmaus rummaging through those storage bins.  You want to know about raising
chickens in the backyard....there would be 20 articles on the subject from
all over the world.  Composting was broken up into probably 15 or 20 sub
categories, all with piles of articles; mostly really good stuff.  So all
Jeff did all day was read these 1000 periodicals, clip them, make copies and
file them in the bins.  If a staff person wanted stuff on a subject, Jeff
would pull the articles, package them and deliver them to the staff person.
When the staff person was finished, the pack would go back to Jeff for
refiling.  Soon after Bob Rodale was killed, and the money crunchers took
over the Sieve was closed down.  I guess all the files got thrown away.
What a treasure it was and imagine what it would be now if they had kept it
up for the past 20 years.
Oh well, time to move on.  The Internet ain't all that bad.
Jeff

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