There are places you can donate the materials you have. Both the California Historical Society<\/a> and Special Collections at San Diego State University<\/a> have permanent collections of Temple material. We also offer the Jonestown Institute as a physical repository for them, although when we eventually retire, we will follow through on our commitment to SDSU for a transfer. If there are local libraries or historical societies that you believe might be a better fit, that\u2019s wonderful (although we do hope you\u2019ll let us know where the material is going).<\/p>\n But for the historians of the future \u2013 I’m thinking of the scholars of the 22nd century whose grandparents have not even been born yet \u2013 please consider spending some time organizing, preserving, and donating whatever it is you have.<\/p>\n Thank you.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n (Fielding M. McGehee III<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is the principal researcher for the Jonestown Institute and this website, where he manages tape transcripts, Freedom of Information Act requests, primary source documents, and general inquiries on questions concerning Peoples Temple. His other articles in this edition of <\/em>the jonestown report are <\/em>\u201cDrinking the Kool-Aid\u201d as a Tool of Education<\/a>\u00a0and Vernon Gosney: A mercurial temperament, a deep generosity<\/a>. A selection of articles and editorials for <\/em>the jonestown report is <\/em>here<\/a>. He may be reached at\u00a0fieldingmcgehee@yahoo.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The people of Peoples Temple are aging. Jonestown survivors, former members, apostates and defectors, relatives, and everyone else connected to November 18, 1978, are all 43 years older than they were then. A number of others have already died, each of them taking a unique piece of the Temple story with them. Some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":111220,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111450","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111450"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111506,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111450\/revisions\/111506"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/\u2022\u2022library-300x180.jpg\")
<\/a>There\u2019s a lyric from a Laurie Anderson song, \u201cWorld Without End,\u201d that has haunted me ever since I first heard it in 1994: \u201cWhen my father died, it was like a whole library burned down.\u201d This is what each of us carries within us: a library whose books are arranged according to our own filing system that we alone understand, a library that will never be duplicated, a library that will disappear when each of us dies. Unless\u2026<\/p>\n