The Enoch Pratt Free Library has many excellent resources for those digging into state, local, and family history. Those materials include microfilm reels containing practically every extant newspaper in Maryland, including all the county weeklies. In the serials department, you will also find the Evening Sun and the Baltimore News American, papers which genealogists and…
Putting the Spotlight on Local History Increases Audience
“The New York History Blog,” one of the newsfeeds we follow, shared a post a couple of years ago about attempts to celebrate the Empire State’s past through “history month.” Created by a 1997 law, the initiative resulted in some activities, but largely enthusiasm waned after a few years Bob Weible, the State Historian of…
Pop-up For a Show and Tell About World War II at Cecilton Library
Many heritage institutions across the country are trying a new participatory approach to stimulating conversations about the past. Called “pop-up museums,” the idea is that people bring personal objects and stories to an event. As the activity unfolds, anyone may stand up to discuss their item or share a story. This type of approach stimulates the…
Getting Social in the Past Lane on Delmarva
Since the Delmarva History Facebook (FB) page launched on October 24, 2013, the number of likes has grown steadily, the pace accelerating as the website matured. And when we surfed over to update the curated newsfeeds on this Wednesday morning in early February, we noted the landing page had passed an important milestone, 1,500 likes….