Because I am doing research on the history of the National Institute for Conservation/Heritage Preservation, I have been spending considerable time going through issues of the AIC’s newsletter beginning with volume 1 (1975). While doing this, I have had to force myself to stay focused on the research at hand and not get sidetracked by the wealth of information about people, meetings, exhibitions, publications, and disputes. I would recommend that anyone who is interested in knowing where the field came from and how it got to where it is today, spend some reading older issues of the AIC newsletter.