Community Workshops

As this project continues to develop, I realized that I need to continue to make contact with the community. I cannot just be me sitting behind a table and waiting for the people to show up. So, I've been making every effort to engage the community by going to meeting and following up on exchanges.

The last example of this is a workshop that I am giving at the Hyde Park Free Library this weekend. Entitled - Saving your Memories: Digital Archiving your images, I'm going to show people how to best save their fragile materials so that future generations can see them. This primarily means showing people what standards are best for scanning images and then the best way to store those images.

This will take place monthly until the final project at the Drive In.

Here are the details

Saving your Memories: Digital Archiving your images
1-2pm
Hyde Park Free Library
2 Main St.
Hyde Park, NY
12538
845-229-7791

Camera's in the Community

One idea that came out of conversations recently with Greg Callahan at the Hyde Park Library was to make cameras available for people to document town life.

Last week I approached a locally owned and operated business in Hyde Park, Molloys Pharmacy, about the donation of several disposable camera to make this idea happen. Molloys and its owner Bill Irwin, being a vital business leader in the community, has graciously given a donation of 20 cameras to begin working on this part of the project.

I will be handing those out at my usual post on Saturday mornings at the farmers market. I hope that I might get the Hyde Park Townsman to do a little article on this aspect of the project.

Funding Support

I recently had a meeting with Steven Mann and Stephanie Mauri of the Dutchess County Historical Society. They were both very excited about the project and gave me several great sources for information. The Historical Society has written a letter of support and given a financial donation to help move the project forward. My great thanks goes out to them.

I also just received notice that I am a recipient of a NYFA SOS grant. This some of money allows me to continue my efforts to digitize material and cover the cost of some equipment.