Bringing Fabius History to Your Living Room
For 35+ years members of the Fabius Historical Society have been
collecting, copying and digitizing, photos, records and scrapbooks. Each year the
society displays some of the collection on Memorial Day but has never had
space enough to display everything. Few people even know the vast extent of
our collection and here is a chance to learn more.
The first Historical Society meeting January 2nd 2016 at 1pm at the Fabius
Community Center, Route 80 in the Village, Bill Casey and Vaughn Skinner
will demonstrate the efforts the society is making to store and display the
collection. This demonstration about our local history will show that our
collection can be viewed, copied, downloaded or printed as easily as
reading email or doing a Google search, well almost as easy!
The project will never be completely finished as “new to the collection
items” always will appear, but loaded and ready for viewing are past
newsletters (contain some great research information), vintage area photographs,
obituary collections, historical maps of our town, the tribute collection of
David Pilcher’s artwork, Fabius-Pompey Alumni Directory, Fabius Town
Records, and best of all, much of the 60+ scrapbook collection. In the
presentation, Bill & Vaughn will demonstrate how the scrapbook materials are
nondestructively digitized and loaded for public viewing. As this digitizing of
materials is very time consuming, we are always looking to involve more
people.
We hope you can attend this Saturday January 2nd 1pm presentation and
learn to make full use of the Society’s Fabius History collections. Please
consider bringing a young person or people, to come with you, since this may
be a good opportunity to develop an interest in history for the younger
generation.
Just want to view the collection use the weblink:
http://tinyurl.com/odcv5hw.
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Bill Casey
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Bill Casey
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PO Box 36
Apulia Station, NY 13020
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