Did you ever want to reread that article about what could go wrong at the Southern Circuit. You remember it was in Flashes sometime in the middle of 1995. Or you want to find that article about gybing techniques but aren’t sure where to find it? The Class website can answer those kinds of questions for you. Choose the menu item The Class, then History Index.
You will be brought to visual menu of choices. Use the EFlashes link for old copies of Flashes and eFlashes; find Yearbooks under theYearbooks link.
Click on the eFlashes link. Note that Flashes ended in 2002; eFlashes went into 2021.
Let’s find that Southern Circuit article! Click on the 1990s link, and you will see all the issues for that decade.
You’ll need to hunt a bit to find the right issue. The Southern Circuit ended in March, maybe the article was in the May issue. When you click on May you'll be brought right into that issue. Press the Ctrl and F keys (Find) at the same time to search thru the May issue. You could search for Circuit and then keep pressing the Enter key to walk thru every time that appears. Or scroll to the bottom of page 3 and see the What’s Inside table of contents. The article isn’t there.
OK maybe the author slacked off and did not have the article ready until the July issue. Go back to the list and this time select the July 1995 issue. Use Ctrl-F to search it for Southern Circuit. Voila – 4 hits and all in an article 12876 Shakedown Cruise – Known to Others as the 1995 Southern Circuit.
Yearbooks work the same way. Back at the History Index, click on the Yearbooks link, then select the decade and then year that you want and click right to that yearbook. Note the yearbooks are pretty large so may take a few seconds to load. Just like with Flashes, you can use Ctrl-F to search the contents of the yearbook.
There is currently no ability to search across all the Flashes or Yearbooks. We can always hope for that in the future.
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