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To find our most recent articles, see the table below, or use our Recent Master browser. See "At A Glance" in the sidebar to find most recent department updates. Legacy HTML articles may be indexed in realtime from the sidebar under "Permalinks-Summitlake." Sidebar information and links are available in all Wordpress departments.

News in a NutShell

1. Want to leave a Comment? Every Department post is announced (in excerpted form) right here on the HOME page. Depending on the coverage scope you want for your comment, you can submit comments under the Department post (for that department's viewers), or under the HOME announcement (for all home page viewers).
2. Can't find an old legacy HTML page? It may have been converted to WordPress. Look in the sidebar links for its department.
3. "What's New" site news and major new postings are announced here in our HOME department.
4. The easiest way to see what's new? Subscribe to RSS.

• The first Home Page
• The last HTML Home Page

This website was originally uploaded to the Best.com server, from a Power Macintosh 7100, on October 18, 1995. The appearance, content, client platform and a lot of the methodology have all changed since then. The host server has been changed (or acquired) six times.

We've been hosted on the WestHost servers since November 2002. Much of our legacy HTML content has been absorbed into the WordPress databases. The basic concept of this site has always been to feature the original written word on the web, and we're still committed to that. The following credits, excerpted here, were first posted on November 25, 1995.

Special thanks to my friends at Poor Richard's (now LDResources) for encouragement and direction ... Thanks to Ted Wagner, for egging me on. And most of all, thanks to Bob, who added both his enthusiasm and his patience with this 14-year ongoing project.

A special heartfelt "thanks!" to my friend Al, who has been a pioneering booster and supporter of these pages since the very beginning.

In recent years, support and contributed material from readers and fans have helped Summitlake.com mature and broaden its scope. To Al, Dave, Swan and Gary in particular, our thanks and gratitude. To Joe Tranchina, who taught so many of us the thrill of the written word, everlasting thanks for your inspiration and leadership. To all of you who write in or post comments, and those Guest Authors who grace our pages, your extra input helps us focus on our readers.

User Reference In A Nutshell

1. Registration. Users may register in each Summitlake department used frequently. Registration requires a real name and email address. E-mail addresses are not posted to the public domain (you would have to intentionally include an email in a comment). Some privileges do come with registration, such as the ability to update your Profile, and queue Comments.
   More Info: see our Register link, in the sidebar of most site pages.
2. We do not allow commercial URL's in registrations or comments for obvious reasons.
3. Subscribe to our RSS feeds. Users do not need to register to subscribe to RSS. How? See How to Subscribe to RSS.
4. Comments. Comments are generally queued for moderation. Users need to be registered and logged in to post a comment. Comments may be disabled on a page after a period of time, indicated by the caption Comments Off.
5. But you can click the Write Us button at any time.Users do not need to register in order to use our write form.
6. More Info: see our Posting Guidelines link, in the sidebar of most pages on Summitlake.com.
7. Site Navigation. We provide several different ways to help you browse the site.
8. More Info: Visit our Site Navigation page link, in the sidebar of our HOME department pages on Summitlake.com.
9. Manuscripts and Submissions. We encourage submission of original articles, creative writing and photos that have not been published elsewhere.
10. More Info: see our Manuscripts page link, in the sidebar of our HOME and WRITING department pages at Summitlake.com.
11. About Us: Summitlake.com is a small, privately operated and controlled, noncommercial web site. We provide a home for original creative content. Cookies are used on interactive "login" pages (for example, to leave a comment) but are not used for general browsing. No user information is ever sold, mined or given to others. We do not use cookie "tracking".
12. For more information: see sidebar links under "Pages", including: About This Website. We use WordPress® to serve up most content. Most new posts are open for comments to registered users. We hope you enjoy your visits to our site. Thanks for stopping by!

Regards always,