More to the Story: Bring News Clips and Photos to Library Center on Nov. 4; Dan Woodward Gallery Talk Oct. 29 at Library Station
Do you have a “family keepsakes” shoebox with newspaper clippings and newsmaker photos from the past? Need some help shedding light on who, exactly, those people are, and why in the world they were wearing togas?
You don’t have to lose those stories – quirk or stone-serious – to history. You’re invited to pack up those clips and photos and take them to the Library Center anytime from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 4, for a sleuthing session called “More to the Story: News Clips and You.”
The Library and the News-Leader have partnered on this event to help piece together a richer history of the Ozarks. We’re asking people to bring in those saved clippings and share the stories behind them with News-Leader reporters. Their goal is to publish some, and archive all for history’s sake.
As for solving the mysteries in your collection, the Library’s Local History and Genealogy Department staff, excellent sleuths, will be there to help you research unknown aspects of those stories, or identify the people and places in your preserved news clips. Library staff will be able to provide digital copies or photocopies of your worn clips, too. And you get to keep your originals, too.
How good are you at sleuthing? We could also use your help. That day at the Library Center we’ll also display posters with old local news photos that we’ve been unable to identify as yet. We invite you to weigh in so we can add them to the archive for everyone to enjoy.
For questions about the event, contact the News-Leader’s Stephen Herzog at 417-836-1219 or sherzog@news-leader.com.
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Speaking of history, Rolla native and artist Dan Woodward will give a gallery talk about his work focusing on Missouri Civil War events and sites at a talk, “Impressions of The Civil War in the West,” at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, in the Library Station Frisco Room.
A selection of Woodward’s pieces is also on display in the Library Station’s reading room through November.
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