To quote myself:<blockquote>It seems that one could begin almost
anywhere, on almost any shelf in the library, and follow trails of
references and
felicitous serendipities. The thing is to begin, and to build an edifice
out of interest and engagement.</blockquote> The 'anywhere' includes
documents like this one, which can be "read" for their implications, and
treated as <b>stories</b>:<hr width="30%">
<center><img src="shultz.jpg" width="85%"><blockquote>Perhaps the best
known images of the Johnstown Flood are of the John Shultz house. Pierced
by a tree, the house
became an instant icon of the Flood and was a curiosity to many who
traveled to Johnstown to see the devastation of the
  flood first hand. Many posed sitting or standing on the trunk of the
tree. The Schultz family all survived the flood.<p>(from
http://www.ctcnet.net/jaha/pages/photos2.htm)</blockquote></center>