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.
Posted
by:
Bill Casey