Wishing/Personal Connection

I'm old. My personal approach to inquiry has been shaped by 47 years of life, 28 years of marriage, 5 children, 3 mortgages, 1 special needs child who died, 20 years of undergrad work (interrupted many times), 2 trips to Europe, over 15 family vacations, several major appliance purchases, 31 years of preparing my own tax returns, 18 years serving as secretary on the Board of Directors of my family's company, at least 30 job interviews, and probably 12 different jobs in my life. Sheesh I'm feeling older by the minute.
My point is, I've always employed inquiry in my personal business, I just thought that's how everybody did it. Reading Consumer Reports before purchasing, investigating a company before interviewing there, reading all I could about Downs' Syndrome, finding out what the hell embalming is all about, learning traveler's French and Italian, art history, how to go to mass at the Vatican, how to avoid 4 hour lines at the Uffizi, parliamentary procedure to avoid sibling battles.
I can't say my approach to inquiry has changed from this project, because the topic was another one I am interested in. When I'm interested, I plow forward and find what I can. I think the step and stage that I've never really cataloged is creating diagrams and building charts and the like. These things I've done in my head, but never labeled the process.

In some ways, I feel I failed in the project because I didn't find people who know what's going on for the bicentennial. I did finally hear back from the Corydon people, but they said that statewide, nobody is really organized. Then I looked back and saw that Ohio & Tennessee didn't start efforts toward their event until 5 years before - so perhaps I'm a little early.
BUT - that's actually part of the success of the project, because I found out that I haven't missed anything yet! And I know where to keep checking for info once it starts coming out.

If I had thought of contacting the Superbowl 2012 people, I bet some interesting conversations could have started up about sites and architecture. What a great idea to collaborate so we don't have redundancy - save money!
Most of the organizations related to 2016 are part of IN.gov, or housed in the capitol - it may have been a whole lot easier to just spend half a day downtown interviewing and asking - I may have gotten the same answers, but it would have saved me screen time, and the day would have been a pleasant one.

I wish I would have read the last page of the project guide earlier because I didn't include many references to professional literature. Duh! That's rule #1 - read all the instructions first!!
I'm going to go attach my files now and be done.
Just found out the deadline was extended, but I worked so hard over the weekend, I just need to be done now.
Ciao!