Now and Then -- John Peabody Harrington: A man obsessed (fwd link)

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Now and Then -- John Peabody Harrington: A man obsessed
By Nancy Alexander, President, Highland Historical Society, Special to Highland
Community News

Who is John Peabody Harrington?

He was a linguist and ethnographer, whose obsessive life's work lay not in a
single great discovery, but in the preservation of millions of words and
customs of Native Americans, which even in the early 1900s, were becoming
extinct. His work has become of increasing value to the many Native American
people who are trying to piece together their languages and customs.

Full article link below:
http://www.highlandnews.net/articles/2008/02/21/entertainment/04harrington.txt