Grindael: RIP, A MDB Treasure

[_Jersey Girl]

Anything on fund raising?

I have made an inquiry and I am waiting for an answer. It shouldn’t be long.

Thank you. I will keep checking back here.

[_Kishkumen]

Thank you. I will keep checking back here.

I'm still working on it. Evidently the fundraiser that was posted to Facebook is no longer accepting donations. My contact is getting in touch with the family.

[_Jersey Girl]

Thank you, Kish.

[_Kishkumen]

So, the bad news is that there is no longer any formal fundraiser going on. I think we need to focus our efforts elsewhere. To cite one thing that has been mentioned: gathering grindael's best work into a kind of memorial thread.

This brings me to another topic that is being discussed elsewhere: the securing of this board's data. Those of us who value our participation here and the many memories, great conversations, and friends we have met here might be very concerned about all of this being lost.

I wish our situation here were more stable and easier to navigate. When Yahoo groups stopped storing the data of its members, I was able to get a download of all of the data from a group I co-owned back in the early 2000s. It was my pre-MBD board. Part of my history. It meant very much to me to be able to rescue the data of posts from such people as Lavina Fielding Anderson, Wayne C. Booth, and many others.

That was meaningful to me, but MDB is much more meaningful yet. I have now been here longer, and the conversation has been more sustained and interesting. It was here where we once interacted with more apologists. It was here where my transition from active LDS to former LDS occurred. It was here where I organized Kishapalooza I and II. It is here where I met and interacted with friends like gramps and grindael who have moved on from this life.

This is too important, guys. This is a community. We know each other. A number of us have met in real life. We can't let this slip away from us without a community effort to preserve it.

[_Holy Ghost]

It was here where I organized Kishapalooza I and II.

Are Kishapoloozas concerts?

[_Kishkumen]

It was here where I organized Kishapalooza I and II.

Are Kishapoloozas concerts?

No, they were just me visiting Utah. Kind of underwhelming, I know, but we had a lot of fun getting together as a group.

[_Jersey Girl]

Thank you for the update, Kish. I wish there were something more that we could do to support the family. I will collect up links to his writings from Paradise. Post a thread with those and keep the list on my computer for safe keeping as we go forward. If we go forward.

[_Holy Ghost]

Are Kishapoloozas concerts?

No, they were just me visiting Utah. Kind of underwhelming, I know, but we had a lot of fun getting together as a group.

Are there any plans germinating for a K-III?

[_Kishkumen]

Are there any plans germinating for a K-III?

Could be, if we can navigate this pandemic nightmare better!

[_Most High]

don't know if it has been posted here yet, but this is Grindaels site:

https://mormonitemusings.com/