Part 2 in our series on preserving family photos. This week, we unpack our box and get organized, making both a qualitative and quantitative survey of the historical materials we'll need to identify, catalog and house.
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Preserving Family History
Time for spring cleaning. On Friday afternoons, I'm going to work on accessioning - organizing, labeling, housing and cataloging - a box of photos from the Hamilton County Historian's collection. Just one box, for just one hour. I invite readers to join me. Pick a box, pick an hour, make a start, and let me know how it goes.
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Hamilton County Bicentennial
The Hamilton County Bicentennial kicks off April 12, 200 years to the day after the provisional creation of the county in 1816.
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Announcement: Historian’s Office Wins Humanities Grant
The Historian’s Office is excited to announce that it has won a grant from The Common Good: Humanities in the Public Square to fund a project called “The Arcadia Factory: A People’s History of Hamilton County.” The grant will support public programming in cultural institutions across the county encouraging a broad public dialog about the challenges and opportunities created by our changing demographics.
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Reflections: "Demographic Trends in the Adirondacks"
A preliminary summary from a forum entitled "Demographic Trends in the Adirondacks," hosted by The Rockefeller Institute of Government and The Adirondack Research Consortium on 7 October 2015.
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