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As Williamsburg hunkers down for the long, hot, humid summer, Uncommon Sense anticipates a busy summer and fall. After a terrific annual meeting in Quebec in June, we now look forward to the upcoming Warfare and Society conference, with reports on what to expect from the meeting and its host city in G. Kurt Piehler’s “All’s Fair in Love and War in Colonial North America and the Caribbean!” and Elaine G. Breslaw’s handy guide to “Research Opportunities for Early Americanists in Knoxville”.

From further afield, we welcome Lorena and Peter Walsh’s entry into our “Adventures in Teaching” series. During several semesters of teaching at Tumaini University in Iringa, Tanzania, they kept friends and family updated with regular reports of their experiences; we are delighted that the Walshes agreed to share some of these stories with Uncommon Sense as well. We are also pleased to present “The Gift of Singing and the Gift of Scholarship,” an especially graceful invocation offered by Jon Butler at the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Dinner this spring.

David Shields, chief channeler of Captain John Smith, treats us to his review of The New World. Having had a taste of Hollywood hysteria during the filming, which took place in these environs two years ago, we denizens of Williamsburg were left to wonder whether this latest cinematic vision of early Americana would trump its notorious Disney cartoon predecessor in credibility, entertainment, or eye appeal. And, for a memorable look at a surprisingly forgotten bit of Institute history, curious readers will enjoy delving into Part I of Joan and Jim Wrenn’s intriguing “Bowling Them Over: The Institute and the “Americana Series”.

Lastly, we are grateful to Gil Kelly, to Paul G. E. Clemens and Laurie A. Rofini, and Gordon Wood for their remembrances of Matthew Hodgson, Lucile Lewis Simler, and Lance Banning.

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As this is the last issue of Uncommon Sense that will be produced under the coeditorship of Mason and Wrenn, the former (who is staying) has a few words to say about the latter (who is leaving). After thirteen years in which she has enriched a variety of Institute publications with her editorial, cartographic, and indexing talents, managed JSTOR, become a skilled finder and compiler of images for conference brochures, saved us from ourselves on occasions too numerous to mention with her finely honed proofreading ability, and made many an Instituter’s birthday truly memorable with an incredible cake, Becky is departing for graduate school at the University of California, Riverside. To say that we will miss her and that she goes with our very warmest good wishes are serious understatements, but sometimes words fail even the wordsmiths. Institute authors will be glad to know that they won’t have to do without her maps, as Becky has agreed to continue producing them. But those of us she leaves behind at the Institute are going to have to do without her presence, and getting used to that will take some doing. California may be her native state, but we like to think her real home is here and that she will come back to see us.

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