OK Jake, see what happens when you ask a simple question on-line. Did you see the list when someone asked about privies? Some of the best free info I've gotten in years (the worst puns, though)! So here I go stepping off your topic into the abyss. Lucy Wayne notes that HA's have been charged with being scholastically in-bred (our work is supposedly buried in obscure journals, filled with Jargon). Lucy, I think this is ludicrous, don't you? What specialized profession isn't represented by obscure journals and jargon? As an architectural under achiever who has struggled with the vagaries of architectural typology, I find this criticism coming from an architectural historian laughable. As to how our work relates to the public, I want to know why we all have to have public education as our primary mission. I don't have much time for it and I don't think I am very good at it (I could certainly never compete with Babits and Wilde-Ramsing). I am very grateful to those in the SHA who have worked so hard on our public forum and we need to support these people so they can get more information out the door. How many of you go to the public sessions at the SHA meetings? It's not the quantity of exposure of the History Channel, but there sure were a bunch of curious kids and adults poking around those artifact tables in Atlanta, and I didn't hear one complaint about jargon. As an aside to this aside, I still think we should lobby the hotels for lobby space so we can put some of the posters where everyone (that's the public) can see them at any time, whether they want to or not (call it the lobby lobby). We may need to continue being creative and pushy, but the SHA membership is doing a great job at public education (don't some of you even work as teachers and interpreters?)