Jerry Handfield, Washington State Archivist Thursday evening May 26th, 2011 7 pm Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center 27130 102nd Ave NW Stanwood, WA 98292 Take advantage of this unique opportunity to meet Jerry Handfield, Washington State Archivist who will speak on the “Hidden Treasures of our State’s Archives”. His talk will feature the unique public records […]
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Hidden Treasures of our State’s Archives
The Importance of Preserving Family & Community Photographs !
The importance of preserving photographs…. sitting in dusty corners of antique shops, or worse, moldering away under piles of garbage at a county dump? How many shoeboxes and scrapbooks hold pictures that could answer the questions of those who seek their community’s history? We historians honor not only those who took the time to make the images and save them for “someday,†but those, like Bob Morse, who recognize the importance of adding to the community memory by saving and sharing those open windows to the past.