This week I attended a Richard Stockton College workshop on the future of local history in the digital age. The valuable session included an excellent roundtable discussion where humanities scholars, historians, and librarians talked about the profound implications as technology changes the way we access the resources in museums and special collections libraries.
Category: Collections
Acquiring Delmarva History Materials at the Paper Show
I always look forward to the last Saturday in January because Singerly Fire Company holds its annual paper americana show on that date. The Elkton organization has sponsored these shows, which bring over 30 paper, postcard, photograph, and advertising dealers from the tri-state region to Cecil County, for 20 years now. I’ve never missed one for it’s a great place…
Digitizing Old Sounds
One tradition for kicking off the Christmas Season along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through northeastern Maryland was the annual lighting of the “Holly Tree by the tracks.” The B & O held the first public ceremony in 1948 when thousands of people gathered to ring in the season as lights from thousands of bulbs on…