When his degree was finished he came back to his home town and guess what? He set up the archives dept in this town. He has been the city archivist since about 1976. What an archivist! He has set up a system that collects, catalogues and stores a wide variety of city material. Minutes from many local organizations are sent to the archives and kept. I taught at the same school for 28 years and had 24 or 25 school yearbooks. At this stage in my life I wanted to get rid of some of my treasures and I decided that I was finished with the yearbooks.. I didn't want to recycle my yearbooks so I asked the archivist if he could use them. Yes , he certainly would like them so off my yearbooks went to the archivist.
Now this guy is not just an archivist but an avid interest in local history. In fact, his interest is so keen that he has written books on our city's local history. The local history books sell like hotcakes. He has a weekly newspaper column on some aspect of our history.
Now in the process of scanning photos I've found my archives. Many photos remind me of events from many years ago in my life. I found photos to remind me of hiking and backpacking. There were many photos taken at school and somebody very carefully gave me any photos I happened to be in. There are many photos of those goofy dress up days. Many candid shots were taken of me in the classroom or staffroom.
I found very ancient photos of my childhood. I found things on my young adult life although those happened to be sporadic. And then the most precious photos were those of my kids when they were growing up. Today I got to the high school graduation photos.
So I've found my archive and I wish they were as well organized as if our city archivist had cared for them.
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| This is something I was really good at! |
