Graham Archivist Project seeks to capture history
The Graham Community Foundation announced a new project Saturday to share Graham’s history with future generations. The Graham Archivist Project will feature years of Graham’s history compiled by Young County and Graham Historian Dorman Holub into exhibits at the Old Post Office Museum and Art Center.
The project is seeking to build, archive and continue the history of those who have contributed to the legacy of Graham. The public is invited from 3-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 1 to an event for the display at the museum. The items will additionally be on display at the OPOMAC through October. The current project is to record and grow the history of Graham, with initiatives such as interactive touchscreen kiosks which will be permanently placed at the OPOMAC.
“Those kiosks are really unique because they’re an interactive book of 10 men and women who made a difference in Graham’s history. Some you’ll know, and some you won’t know. But that’s the joy of history. The joy of history is to remind us of who had come before us, who is with us right now and what our future is,” Holub said. “(...) So that little book, I think it took me about a month to do (...). But yet there is so much potential, because what we can do is take a photo and say, ‘Here’s what’s in the background and here’s the history of that. Here’s the history of the Methodist Church, the history of Presbyterian Church, the history of the Catholic Church, the history of the churches in town, the history of people, the history of the places, the history of the events,’ and it may be even more than that.”
On display at the museum Saturday, Sept. 24 were expanded pages of The Graham Leader lining the walls with Graham’s history. Holub said one of the potential project additions will be QR codes on the expanded copies of The Graham Leader to help the community know more about the history of Graham.
“I tracked everybody that’s in these (Graham) papers. So I know who they are and I know their children and families because I’m really interested in what influence they made in Graham’s early history,” Holub said. “Then there’s the photos that you see in the gallery. Most of these photos belong to the Post Office Museum and what had happened is we had those in different locations of our building, but we didn’t have any cutlines. You know, that if you don’t know what a photo is, it is just a photo. Then what we did is we added all the cutlines because we wanted you to know these locations.”
For the full story, see the Wednesday, Sept. 28 edition of The Graham Leader.
