Robin, funny you should ask. Among items that PGCA has in its collection is a collection of Parker correspondence that Chuck received from the Board of Directors not long after he took over his Research Committee job. Ron Kirby and I and others went over this interesting group of papers years ago and discussed possibly making it available to the members. It never happened. The "Clown Catalog" in our collection is another piece of Parker history that hardly anyone has ever seen. Ed Muderlak offered to copy that catalog and make it available to members, but the BOD famously refused to allow that. Kevin McCormack and I were nearly finished with a very interesting research project that would have been shared with members. The BOD refused to let us examine a few records to complete our project. It remains unfinished. I'm sure there are other examples of the "Black Hole of Curatorship" if you are interested.
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