There are a few things I am not the slightest bit interested in, like marine biology. Then there is a whole broad category of things I'm curious about, from landlord/tenant law to poetry in Spanish.
The project I'll be documenting here will be about the other end of the spectrum, the things I'm passionate about: stories and history. Combine these in the wrong way and you get historical fiction or a Jane Austen fan; combine them in the better way and you get a somewhat bizarre love of The Daily Evergreen archives.
Primarily I'm devoted to journalism. But it makes me a better journalist to know about the history of the area I'm covering, and I like seeing how things have changed and feeling that connection with people in the past who did the same things I do now.
Plus the archives are funny. Students and the administration have been doing zany things since the beginning of time, apparently, or at least 1895 when the Evergreen started printing. This is where pie delivery comes in. One of the first times I pulled a large, dusty archives tome from the shelf, I came across an advertisement from the 1920s offering pie delivery all around Pullman. Not like pizza pies but actual cherry, apple, pumpkin, etc. with a flaky pastry crust.
So this is the value of getting lost in the archives, finding out where we've come from to better determine where to go in the future. Like pie delivery, only more useful.
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