Re: Disaster Recovery in 1871

Oct 10, 2005 0 Replies


Now that was the story as told by Laura Fermi, eighteen years after it


> happened, and twenty-five years (my first relaying of it) after I
> heard it and now forty years (my second relaying of it.) Is it a true
> story or not? Or was Mrs. Fermi a wee bit forgetful that night? Or
> did I have too many shots of brandy or some other after-dinner liquor > in me? PAT]

Well, I sent the original article to friends who were stationed near Alamogordo several years ago, and they found the house.


[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I seem to remember you writing here to tell me about them finding the house which had formerly belonged to the switchboard operator. I do not remember if your report said the house was still telco property and in use (for something else, obviously) or not. PAT

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