If you take a look at the upper-right corner of our webpage, just under the banner, you will see a new addition.  It is a Facebook “Like” button similar to the ones that you see on your Facebook page.

This will expand your ability to share your favorite pages with your FB friends because you can just click on it while you are surfing.  The “John Doe likes this article” notice will be placed directly on your wall without you having to go to your Facebook page to do it.  Do not confuse this with the Facebook Share button that is just to the left and down from the new one.  The Share button puts the story summary and sample photo, etc., on your page with the link to the article so that you friends can see what it’s about and click right to it.  The Like button is just an extension of the current use of it that is usually found underneath the full Shared summary.

Now I’m pretty sure that I explained that properly, but I’m really not an expert on how these things work.  I have no doubt that if I left something out, one of you will be able to correct me.  So please do.  This new Like button will be found on all of the FireEMS Blogs postings by the end of tomorrow and I think you’ll be finding it on webpages all over the internet very quickly.  It’s another way to recommend to your FB friends some articles to enjoy.  I think.  Let me know what your opinion is on this stuff, I’m just a geezer who hasn’t quite grasped it all yet.

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An interesting piece of Americana turned up recently and its find was made public yesterday.  The 36-page handwritten transcript taken at the coroner’s inquest into the deaths following the famed shootout at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, was found in a courthouse storage area.  They went missing about 40 years ago, lost among the piles of uncatalogued records in the Cochise County courthouse in Bisbee.  The Associated Press reports:

The document resurfaced when court clerks stumbled on the box while reorganizing files in an old jail storage room in Bisbee, about 20 miles south of Tombstone.  Stuffed inside was a modern manila envelope marked “keep” with the date 1881.

Court officials turned the document over to state archivists on Wednesday. Experts will immediately begin peeling away tape, restoring the paper and ink, and digitizing the pages.  It’s unlikely the transcript will provide any shattering revelations, since historians have already reviewed photocopies of the document and the inquest was covered in detail by local newspapers at the time.

But history buffs said the transcript is enlightening nonetheless, clearing up fuzzy points in the copies and revealing small notes that might not have appeared on the photocopies.

The document has been missing for decades — last seen when it was photocopied in the 1960s. The pages include verbatim testimony from eyewitnesses to the shootout.

The document is legible, but the paper has darkened to an amber beer color and is brittle like a potato chip, said Cochise County Court Clerk Denise Lundin. The handwriting can be difficult to read because the court reporter was rapidly taking notes, she said.

That kind of stuff is always fun to read about.  The coroner was involved because of the deaths that occurred.  Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday had a 30-second gun battle in the corral with the notorious Clanton gang, a group of rustlers, that left three men dead, Frank and Tom McLaury and Bill Clanton.    If you want to review the story, Wikipedia has a concise account of it HERE and the current owners of the corral, which is now a tourist site, have their own website HERE.

We’d better get this equipment checked out now.  I’ve got to get some more coffee started.  See you back in the day room corral in a little while.