EASTON [Pennsylvania] Strolling through the space that will display artifacts from the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society’s voluminous collection, Marlowe Sigal marveled at the county’s history.
“I wasn’t aware growing up here and living in the area for 20 years how rich the history really was of Northampton County,” he said.
Sigal also marveled at what’s [...]
The home where Alex Haley spent his boyhood summers was officially opened today as a museum, and interpretive center. Haley is buried on the grounds of the Henning, Tennessee home.
Author Alex Haley, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family sparked a surge of interest in genealogy in the 1970s, is [...]
Baker, Florida
Visitors at the Baker Block Museum are seeing a new face on the block. The North Okaloosa Historical Association board of directors appointed Baker resident Peggy Hardy as the museum’s new curator.
Hardy is replacing Jeanette Henderson, who served as the museum’s curator since it’s opening in 1996 and was also a founding member of [...]
HONESDALE [PENNSYLVANIA] - A museum dedicated to preserving Wayne County’s history and Honesdale’s role as the birthplace of the American railroad will be shuttered over the winter due to a loss in critical state funding.
“The easiest way to make up for that was just to close,” said Ann O’Hara, a spokeswoman for the [...]
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg against the Bedford Museum over the sale of cemetery records has drawn in principals from the two largest law firms west of Richmond.
Representatives of the Bedford Genealogical Society, Inc. sued the museum in November. They claim the museum has misrepresented itself as the owner of the [...]
DANVILLE [Illinois] – Some local historical organizations will join forces so people can expand their personal libraries or perhaps find a good holiday gift for someone else.
The Vermilion County Museum Society, Illiana Genealogical Historical Society and the C & EI Railroad Historical Society are hosting a holiday historical book sale from 10 a.m. [...]
The following excerpt is from an article about the renovation of the McCain House, which houses the Armstrong County, Pennsylvania’s Historical Museum.
The McCain House, home of the Armstrong County Historical Museum, is getting an overhaul so it can keep on telling the story of Armstrong County’s history.
The three-story museum building’s antiques and delicate artifacts were [...]
The following excerpts are from an article in the November 2, 2009 edition of the Rapid City Journal.
The archives at Deadwood’s City Hall hold shelves filled with voting records, county inventory and appraisal ledgers, probate ledgers and other circuit court documents dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s.
Many of those documents nearly ended [...]
The Richmond Slave Trail Commission unveiled plans Oct. 19 for a slave heritage in Shockoe Bottom that would include a slavery museum. It’s hard not to examine what has been proposed by the commission, led by Del. Delores L. McQuinn, D-Richmond, and not sense that we’re at the portal of something transformative.
This is all preliminary [...]
WICHITA — The Kansas African American Museum has received a $25,000 grant to establish a statewide history and genealogy program called “Knowing Me, Knowing You.”
The program is designed for anyone with a contribution to Kansas African American history.
The grant, awarded by the Chester and Ada Franklin Scholarship Fund and co-trustees Bank of America [...]
An upcoming exhibition entitled “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas” will be of interest to genealogists. The exhibition will take place November 10, 2009 through May 23, 2010 at the National Museum of the American Indian, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
This 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the interactions [...]
I found the announcement that the Wetmore-Hardscrabble Genealogical and Historical Society has had a grand opening in the old Wetmore Post Office building to be of personal interest. My mother was born and raised in Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado in 1911. Wetmore, Colorado is southeast of Canon City in Custer County, south of [...]
Harold Stephens of Swansboro recently presented the History Place with a $100,000 gift to be used for the Jack Spencer Goodwin Research Library.
The money will be set up as an endowment named the Stephens Family Endowment and was given in memory and honor of the Rev. A. P. Stephens and Mary Stephens Stephens and their [...]
SOMERS POINT [New Jersey] – Walking through the Atlantic Heritage Center at 907 Shore Road is like going on a treasure hunt with a really good map.
The three-story brick building sits between views overlooking the Historic Bayfront District and Somers Mansion and holds thousands of documents and historical artifacts from all over [...]
Do you have an interest in Nevada & Vernon County in Missouri? Now is your chance to get a good deal on new local history volumes. The following is excerpted from a much longer article in the October 3, 2009 edition of the Fort Scott Tribune:
The two-volume set “Nevada & Vernon County Heritage 1855-2005 Pass [...]
