You probably can't help but notice this is the June - July issue, our first bimonthly edition. While it's been a wonderful and rewarding experience for our all-volunteer staff to make a monthly ezine for and about Concord, it's been TIRING, too. We hope that going to an every-other-month format will allow us to have glorious summertime fun and leisure.

Concord History and the History of Families
When we first started it, we had no idea this ezine could so intimately touch families living all over the world which have connections to Concord history. But we get a steady stream of emails about how something we have published has filled in a missing part of some family's long-searched-for history. And in turn, we get to hear a side of the story we missed.

The followup article about the mural in the Concord Post Office is a great example. The author tells us the added information she read here has given a sense of peace and closure to several generations of her family. If you have learned something about your family history here, please contact us and let us know about it.

This Edition's Art
Do you find it hard to stop looking at the beautiful artwork on this page? We do. We keep coming back to gaze upon it again, and again. Not surprisingly, it's from one of our favorites, Miz Kitty of Full Moon Graphics. We mere mortals can only envy her talent.

Other highlights include an etching from Concord's Andrea Menna Taylor, who illustrated our November, 1998 edition. Lisa from Set City was missing from the 'Net for a while, but thankfully she is back with lots of new offerings, several of which can be found in this edition. And it just wouldn't be summer without summer flowers, several graceful examples of which you find here being from Bren's Original Backgrounds.

More Y2K Preparation
Residents throughout Concord and neighboring communities are continuing to get to know their neighbors, strengthening their local ties, and preparing for possible disruptions due to Y2K, blizzards, and power outages.

We are becoming particularly concerned about the lack of readiness on the part of many foreign countries, especially those upon which we depend for oil. While fuel stockpiles may hold come 1/1/2000, inability to bring in new supplies could potentially cause shortages thereafter.

In this issue, we continue our commitment to providing the great information with a local focus by local authors starting here.