Cuke Press
A Brief History of Tassajara
Foreword
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Marilyn's Intro & Acknowledgements
On Producing This Book
A Brief History of Tassajara
from page 171
This book
was originally put together as a scrapbook. Pages were added with text typed
around photos taped to the pages. The material was saved in a three-ring binder
at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. This was in the 1980s before easy availability
of digital files.
Mark Stromberg, Resident Director of the Frances Simes Hastings Natural History
Reservation of University of California Berkeley in nearby Carmel Valley, was a
friend of Marilyn McDonald interested in seeing her research preserved. He
scanned the pages in 2011 with Marilyn, who was by then living in Santa Fe, New
Mexico. The scans were combined into a
pdf
file.
In August 2017 the text from this file was transcribed in Indonesia by Alice
Dill Wedland, with help from David Chadwick. The transcription was edited by
Marilyn’s son, Lawrence Burns, in January 2018. That same month, Mark Stromberg
optimized each scanned image and combined them with the digital text file into
six by nine inch book form. The manuscript was further edited and developed by
Peter Ford and David Chadwick with Lawrence Burns’ oversight as a Cuke Archives
project. Andrew Main expertly copy-edited and assisted with design and
production. David’s wife, Katrinka McKay, Paul Spier, Arnie Kotler, and Michael
Katz provided valuable suggestions. In Indonesia, Ketut Sastrawan and Jonathan
Latupeirissa gave indispensable technical assistance.
Mark Stromberg and Marilyn McDonald were able to archive all background
materials, original photos, brochures, clippings, etc. at the Bancroft Library,
University of California Berkeley. These materials can be found there under the
name of Marilyn McDonald.
page created 18-08-16