Volume 9, Number 8 - Summer 1987
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Random thoughts presented in an unorganized way.
It used to be that when I went to write I sharpened a lot of pencils and stared at my yellow legal pads for a long time until some idea began to come into focus. Now I stare at my computer screen for a long time but I don’t have to sharpen as many pencils. Technology is wonderful.
It looks like a dues increase for the Society is inevitable. The good people at S of 0 press who have been printing our Quarterly for some time now say they will have to charge us more just to meet their own increased costs. It will cost us more to publish the Quarterly than we take in in dues. We’ll talk more about this at the next quarterly meeting. Any increase would not take effect until next dues-paying season.
The Taney County Historical Committee (n6e the Steamboat Landing Committee), composed of very active members of the Society, planned and carried out a first-rate celebration of the Sesquicentennial of the founding of Taney County. Wide spread involvement and good attendance from all over the County and beyond. The Society had a booth.
The Society, the Ozarks Genealogical Society, and the SMS University Center shared a booth during the two weeks of the Silver Dollar City Spring Crafts Festival. We all got along just fine, and talked to a lot of people who are interested in genealogy and history of the Ozarks.
The tourism industry finds history good business. Visitors to a community are always interested in learning about historic places, people, and incidents.
The entire town of Caledonia, up in Washington County, was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The people of Caledonia are very proud of their historic buildings, are doing a lot of exciting historic preservation work, and hope to realize some economic gain from their efforts.
I was delighted to learn from Editor Charlotte that an essay from a recent college graduate is to be included in this issue of the Quarterly. We need more research and writing about the Ozarks. Isn’t it good that younger people are investigating their own land and people?
Last random rambling—I see an increased awareness in our society of the significance of history, and a desire for help in understanding and using history. This provides an opportunity for individuals and Societies, such as ours, to provide research, knowledge, information, preservation, and interpretation about the area we know and care about, the White River Valley.
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