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Scope and Contents

A group of news clippings about ALIVE! from the Alexandria Journal was collected during the Summer of 1982, there are no newsletters for this period, due to the absence of official meetings between June and September of that year. The articles evoke a sense of crisis largely absent from official newsletters and reports.

Scope and Contents ALIVE! has had two runs of newsletters. The first was a run of simple monthly newsletters on single double-sided sheets, which included in some cases the minutes of meetings and financial reports from committees, and thus overlap significantly in content with other series. A second and more traditional newsletter, “The ALIVE! Wire,” began in Dec. 1991 and continued with “vol.2” in Oct. 1992 running concurrently with the original and continued to the present day with increasing regularity....

Scope and Contents

The ALIVE! flyers contains two types of documents. The first is general flyers about the organization, which include a great deal of general information such as lists identifying the occupants of different executive positions for each year. The second consists of flyers for specific programs and events.