Bog turtle: Fascinating to read that you were the publisher of the Record Bee newspaper in Lake County California from 1981-1986, in which county my Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic field site is located. Thanks too for your good wishes concerning subsequent research there.

Dear Betsy, and John, 

thanks for your email, and for reaching out too, Betsy. My mother may know Liz Perkins, but I don't recall her from when I sang in the 1st Pgh UU choir there in 2006-2007 (during when my father had a brain injury). Having also sung in the UU Choir in Palo Alto about 4 years ago, I only knew of one person from the 1st UU Church of Pgh there. Ma, Betsy sends a warm hello to you and Liz Perkins at the 1st UU Pittsburgh :-)

Since John and I have both visited Harbin some, Harbin Hot Springs, my Actual-Virtual ethnographic & STEM field site, became a first church, first in 1975 (HCC, and not affiliated with any others) after you would have been there, John, (and a 2nd church which ordains ministers in 1996, NACOB), but it may have been a bit of a hippy tax dodge as a church in CA, in my interpretation, too. Any recollections of HCC from your role at the Record-Bee in Lakeport? Soaking in the warm pool, however, there (some call it a sanctuary) is wondrous - and has parallels too with un-programmed Quaker Friends' Meeting regarding (what I'll call as a de facto relaxation response) meditation, deeply communal, connecting, cleansing, and releasing ... and informs aspects of my ethnographic interpretation of Harbin's alternative cultures or discourses. Hoping to facilitate this virtually in a realistic virtual Harbin even.

John, David Thurston, with whom I've visited Harbin (about 10 yrs ago, and who also visited me in Canyon CA 94516, from which I've recently moved into 'safe house') says he's in communication with your brother Bill, fellow Wesleyanite, in DC, he just wrote ... (And I hope CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, of which I'm sure he head, will also emerge from CC-3 Yale OpenYaleCourses - oyc.yale.edu/ - and per WUaS Monthly Business Meeting process, eg - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/yellow-billed-stork.html?m=0). Please let UUs and contacts know of these online free-to-students' PhD and 4yr Bachelor degree opportunities, Betsy and John (emerging from MIT OCW's ~2400 courses first in English. 

Betsy, the MacLeod's Piney's house and garden are gradually growing in beauty this year, :) after the autumn, winter & spring past. Cuttyhunk's beauty comes into conversation with this process :)

Friendly regards, Scott

PS

Can't go up to the Harbin pool area here yet, but you can Visit the Harbin Gatehouse in Google Street View here, and 'walk' down the road a spell,l too, and also walk around Middletown ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

PPS 

John, are you somehow in communication with the Lake County Record-Bee or Harbin people today ? Could the Record-Bee possibly help even  grow a #RealisticVirtualHarbin for history, and journalism, and for visiting virtually too!

Here again are some related #Hashtags Harbin regards - 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1401252415051997185?s=19 - and a picture from about just before it burned down recently. Was this anything like what you recall when you visited there in the 1980s?  

Warm regards, Scott

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 8:29 PM Betsy Mead Tabor <familytabor@comcast.net> wrote:

Dear Scott ~ I appreciate your reaching out. Thank you!

I was glad to see tomatoes growing on the deck a couple of weeks ago and, whenever walking by, imagine taking on the weeding of your mother’s flower garden. Please do tell her and pass along a warm hello to her and Liz Perkins at the 1st UU Pittsburgh :-)~ With warm regards, Betsy

On Jul 2, 2021, at 4:48 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:

John, 

great to talk with you at Jim Lovell's memorial on Cuttyhunk, and to learn also that you had visited Harbin Hot Springs in the first half of the 1980s ... 

When again were you the editor or similar of the Record Bee newspaper - https://www.record-bee.com/ - in the city, nearby-to-Harbin, of Lakeport in Lake County, CA? 1981-1985 did you say? Are you in communication by any chance with Record Bee or Harbin people to this day? The Founder of Harbin, Ishvara, or Bob Hartley visited Cuttyhunk in the 1950s I think and knew Jim and Flora Lovell too I recall learning. Did you ever communicate with them about all of this :)?

Am seeking for people to visit virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... And anywhere on earth too ... Whenever year they'd like to, in a realistic virtual earth / Harbin -

Think Google Street View with Time Slider, Maps, Earth, in ever unfolding AI dimensionality, and for STEM and ethnographic research too - 

Visit the Harbin Gate House here in Google Street View ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~)

Seeking too to publish my second Harbin Ethnographic book from text in the sidebar from here too - http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg + both to paper, and in a digital format, in many languages eventually.

Nice to visit with you and Carolyn Powers esp at the Cuttyhunk Church ... My mother in Pittsburgh is active in the 1st UU Church there, - and please give my regards to Betsy, your UU Minister wife. :) Any interest in visiting Harbin again virtually, and in the 1970s & 1980s perchance and for visiting, for history, and journalism too?

Here are some related #Hashtags Harbin regards - 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1401252415051997185?s=19 - and a picture from about just before it burned down recently. Was this anything like what you recall when you visited there in the 1980s?  

Best & Friendly regards, Scott

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