Feb 11, 2010

Harnessing history after snow melts



(Baltimore Sun) So you lived through the great snow of 2010. But will you remember it by anything other than a blinding snapshot of white?" All of this will be ephemera and will disappear unless there's some effort to collect it and institutionalize it," said Maryland archivist Edward C. Papenfuse, who's pushing for an electronic archive. "It's very important from the standpoint of understanding community history." Not to mention personal history. Continued


Photo: Port Deposit ice gorge, 1910.

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