Welcome, and thank you.

I want to be plain with you about what you just did, because it matters and because I do not want it misunderstood. You did not buy access to anything. Everything this press publishes, the free Sunday paper and the longer Rest of the Story alike, is free to every reader, and it will stay that way. You did not pay to get in. You paid to hold the door open for everyone else.

You are a Founding Member of TurningPoint Press. Your name belongs on the Founders List, the permanent record of the people who were here first, before there was much of anything to be here for. That list does not expire, and neither does your place on it.

Here is what your support actually buys. Not a paywall. The work behind the words. The hours in the archives, the primary sources read closely and honestly, the care it takes to tell a forgotten life and tell it true, and the discipline of marking plainly where the record ends and the reconstruction begins. That kind of history does not get written unless someone decides it is worth paying for. You decided it was.

So read everything. Share it freely. None of it is locked, and none of it ever will be. What you have given is the footing under all of it.

I am glad you are here at the start. More soon. We are just getting going.

Warmly,

Christopher B. Gordon

Author, Founder, and Editor, NowWeKnowEm

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