How To Post A Tribute
Posted by admin on September 21st, 2006 at 1:50 am (Post a Tribute)
The fastest way to post a memory or tribute to Evelyn:
- Email your message to 812d0@preservationvolunteers.com. (That’s eight-one-two-d-zero). Please remove any signatures and attachments from your email — the body of the email will be what is posted on the blog, the subject of the email will be the blog post title.
- Then click here. Your email will not be posted until you do. It should say “Mission completed” at the bottom of the page. If it doesn’t, or if you get a POP error, wait a few minutes for your email to arrive, then refresh/reload the page.
This will work for text-only tributes (no photos, attachments, etc.)
For more sophisticated posts (including text formatting, photos, etc.):
- Register
- Login
- When you log in, you will see the WordPress Dashboard. You probably want to click the link to UPDATE YOUR PROFILE OR CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD, so you don’t have to use the password that was emailed to you during the registration process.
- To write a post, click WRITE. Type in the title, and your message — a memory of, or tribute to, Evelyn. (You can click CATEGORIES, on the right, to select whether it’s a memory or tribute.)
- If you’re still writing your post, and need to take a break, click SAVE AND CONTINUE EDITING. If you are done writing your post, click PUBLISH.
Images
- If you have an image you would like to share, UPLOAD it from your computer (using the WRITE POST page). Give it a title. Once it has been uploaded, a thumbnail of the image appears.
- Click the thumbnail. Click “Not Linked” to change it to “Linked to Image”.
- Finally, click “Send to editor”. The image appears in your post.
That’s it! If you want more detailed instructions, click here.
If that’s too complicated, simply send us your memory or tribute. It will take a couple of days for us to process and post it.
Clem Labine said,
September 25, 2006 at 10:19 pm
I always referred to Evelyn as “My Fairy Godmother.” Evelyn “wanded me” more times than I can count during the 40 years that I’ve known her. Evelyn and Everett were directly responsible for my purchasing the brownstone on Berkeley Place — an event that totally transformed my life. (Of course, they had assured me that all the house needed was “a little coat of paint.”)
Evelyn’s power to sprinkle magic fairnly dust was demonstrated shortly after I moved into the brownstone. One of the 1,001 problems facing me as I wrestled with the run-down, chopped-up rooming house was the dining room door. The dining room had been converted into an apartment, and in the process the door’s original etched glass panel had been ripped out and replaced with a thick sheet of plywood.
I was in despair over this door, because at that time no one was making replicas of anything Victorian — certainly not etched glass panels. Then — one Saturday afternoon — Evelyn showed up carrying a beautiful piece of etched glass . . . which fit PERFECTLY into the vacant space in the dining room door. It turned out that Evelyn was working on an interior renovation — and the client no longer wanted that old-fashioned panel of etched glass.
Remembering the poor souls who were struggling with the wreckage of their Berkeley Place brownstone, Evelyn magically made the orphaned piece of glass appear at the precise place where it was desperately needed. This was truly the act of a Fairy Godmother. And it was just the first of many, many blessing that came my way from knowing Evelyn. The amazing thing is that there are hundreds and hundreds of other people with similar stories. Evelyn had an uncanny knack for remembering what people liked and/or needed, and then “wanding” them with their heart’s desire. More than anyone I’ve ever known, Evelyn derived her greatest joy and satisfaction from doing a good deed.
Evelyn had three middle names: Love, Thoughtfulness, and Generosity.