Scientists at HQ regularly apply for patents in many diverse fields - digital display, note-splicing and vocal chord regeneration, to name but a few. But the Humanities seldom take a humble back bench to the Technologies, dazzling as those may be! The Museum, still housed offsite in a small building near Bremen, is soon to be annexed, and then scholarly researchers may gain more regular access to a treasure-trove of unexamined memorabilia, manuscripts and oddities such as the "Tortilla," and the Fasols displayed on Page 1.

 And Sacred Harp goes ever onward. New music is actually published only every half-century, but the Composer's Shack at the main gate hands out more than three hundred sheets of "official" music paper every Thursday between 6:00 and 7:15 A.M. (Only a dozen or so are pawned thereafter.) A fortunate few compositions are eventually disseminated to growers worldwide (see Mysteries page).

 According to a study by the independent Arbacoochie Foundation, the future holds bright hope, as it is these very standards which have made Sacred Harp the world's "preeminent shape-note social activity whose literature has a burgundy cover". Built upon such strengths, Sacred Harp can only prosper and thrive.