Back to life

MINNEAPOLIS — The Bible was stained and worn, with missing pages and detached covers and an exposed spine.
Phil Handy had found it in his aunt’s Florida attic, wrapped in thin brown paper. The book was unassuming, the size of a fat brick. But for years, Handy had heard rumors of a family Bible dating back to the Revolutionary War and containing handwritten genealogy information, including dates of birth.
“The thought immediately flashed — could this be it?” Handy said.
Gingerly, he opened it to find handwriting. It was faded, but it was there.
Handy, 76, brought the Bible home to Minnesota and began searching for a book conservator. A call led to an e-mail led to a studio, in a garage loft in Stillwater, home to Valkyrie Conservation. In May, months after dropping off the book with conservator Bailey Kinsky, he returned to see the pages he was once too scared to turn.

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