The Preston Project

* What is the Preston Project?
* Do you have memories of John Preston?
* Do you have documents, recordings, or images that are by or about John Preston?
* How to submit to the Preston Project
* Other ways in which you can help the Preston Project
* Contact information

WHAT IS THE PRESTON PROJECT?

The purpose of the Preston Project is to collect, preserve, and disseminate information on the author John Preston. At present, the project has three goals:
 

1) To collect documents and remembrances related to Preston. All materials collected by the project are offered to the Preston Archive and the Leather Archives & Museum. The Preston Project is not affiliated with those institutions.

2) To disseminate as much of this information as possible through publishing it online at this site, in particular through Topman's Timeline: A Documentary Biography of John Preston.

3) To see that all of John Preston's books are available in alternative formats for the blind. More information on this goal is available at Books by John Preston in Alternative Formats.

The Preston Project is run by Dusk Peterson. More information about Peterson is available in the section About the Editor. The origins of the Preston Project are described in How This Site Started.

DO YOU HAVE MEMORIES OF JOHN PRESTON?

And would you be willing to share them with others? The Preston Project collects written remembrances of Preston for publication at this site. The Preston Project would be interested in hearing from you if you had a chance to meet or even just glimpse John Preston. Brief anecdotes are fine; so are longer reminiscences. Whether your memories are positive or negative, and regardless of whether you knew Preston for a long time or simply heard him give a talk once, please contact this site if you would be willing to have your memories published online.

If you find it hard to collect your thoughts all in one place and would prefer to be interviewed by e-mail, just contact the Preston Project to make arrangements. And if you would feel more comfortable submitting an audio record of your remembrances – a cassette tape or an audio file, for example – that's fine too.

DO YOU HAVE DOCUMENTS, RECORDINGS, OR IMAGES THAT ARE BY OR ABOUT JOHN PRESTON?

The Preston Project also collects copies of documents that are by or about Preston. For example:
 

Letters.
Articles.
Stories.
News clippings.
Press releases.
Flyers.
Advertisements.

Images and recordings are also welcome. For example:
 

Photographs.
Art.
Audio.
Video.

If it's not on the above list, but it's related to Preston, do submit it. Obscure little documents from the period before Preston became famous would be especially helpful.

Please also visit the What's Needed page to see specific items that the project is seeking.

HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE PRESTON PROJECT

To submit remembrances or text to the Preston Project, e-mail this site. Please don't send attachments; instead, send plain text within the body of an e-mail. (You can simply copy and paste if your text is already in a file.)

If you have a scan of a document or image, e-mail this site first to get permission to send it. (Sometimes the editor has to clear out her mailbox before receiving large files.)

E-mail submissions are preferred, but if you have a photocopy of a document or something else that can't be easily submitted by e-mail, you can send it through regular mail.

Copies are fine; you don't need to send the original item. However, if you're getting rid of extra belongings in your life and wish to send the original item, the Preston Project will donate it to the Preston Archive.

OTHER WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN HELP THE PRESTON PROJECT

Suggestions of links to online information related to John Preston are welcome.

Spread the news about the Preston Project. If you belong to an organization whose members might have known John Preston, send an e-mail around or write an item for your newsletter.

During the last five months of 2004, it took approximately two hundred dollars to run the Preston Project. This covered the cost of Website hosting, photocopying, and buying older periodicals that Preston was known to write for. (These periodicals are not available through interlibrary loan. Buying them cost much less than an out-of-town archival trip would have cost.) The project's 2005 expenses are expected to be a great deal higher since the editor hopes to visit archives holding materials related to Preston. If you would to make a financial donation to the Preston Project, please write for more information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Please send comments, questions, or suggestions about this site, as well as submissions to the Preston Project, to one of the following addresses. 

E-mail:

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Regular mail:

E-mail is preferred. If you wish to send something that can't easily be e-mailed, please e-mail the editor for information on where to send it.