tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post3329529119996711673..comments2024-03-21T00:25:49.444-04:00Comments on Disability Studies, Temple U.: RIP: Paul Longmore (1946-2010)Mike Dornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-68717460770459009492010-08-11T14:03:52.689-04:002010-08-11T14:03:52.689-04:00Back in the early 1990s I was a graduate student i...Back in the early 1990s I was a graduate student in history at Stanford, struggling to find a good topic for a research paper– and, as graduate students do, struggling to find my way. Paul, a visiting professor at the time, shared a newspaper article with me — an interview with a young woman in the mid-1930s, in which she described her sit-ins at WPA headquarters. What followed was a close Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-42058025663647343842010-08-11T12:17:52.697-04:002010-08-11T12:17:52.697-04:00Dr Longmore's work is so important to me, and ...Dr Longmore's work is so important to me, and it's made such a difference in my scholarship, I cannot believe he's dead.J. Pearcehttp://disabilityhistory.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-90697832501771325882010-08-11T10:20:58.503-04:002010-08-11T10:20:58.503-04:00Thanks, Penny (and thanks for replying to my email...Thanks, Penny (and thanks for replying to my email in the middle of it all). I wrote a post to remember him too, <a href="http://righttodesign.blogspot.com/2010/08/remembering-paul-longmore.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Besshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04691600265011800746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-5617491125504725612010-08-10T22:57:07.216-04:002010-08-10T22:57:07.216-04:00Also check out episode 8 of the Making History Pod...Also check out episode 8 of the Making History Podcast, where Jana Remy interviews Paul Longmore (it's still on my iPod):<br />http://janaremy.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=463093#Penny L. Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00102296070193780691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903764.post-40586212099403865632010-08-10T22:45:53.250-04:002010-08-10T22:45:53.250-04:00Thanks for sharing your experiences with Paul. I ...Thanks for sharing your experiences with Paul. I know he was a supporter of all you've done Penny including our blog. I am grateful that as a fellow 'non-historian' stranded in the East, I have enjoyed occasional opportunities to chat with him.<br /><br />Even more than these brief conversations, I have enjoyed following his work through the wonders of online streaming and feature Mike Dornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373835106026166507noreply@blogger.com