scrapbook day

Two scrapbook programs today, one a success, the other a bust (the person who arranged to do the evening program scrapbook workshop was not able to come.)

The library has two Madison PTA scrapbooks stored in its vault. These are among the items that will be surveyed next month by a preservation specialist, thanks to a Moose Plate grant. (Thanks to all of you with Moose plates!) These scrapbooks have some great bits of local history, but the children in the classroom photos were not identified, and that is something we can do now to preserve the information in these books for future generations. This morning, I took the two Madison PTA scrapbooks–one from 1958, the other from 1964–to Ruth Chick’s home where she and Rita Shackford, Ruth Shackford, Pat Shackford, and Shirley Colcord, who were involved with the Madison PTA at the time, had a wonderful time identifying all but two of the children in the class photos. Janice Arnold, who is in one of the classroom pictures in the later book, came by the library in the afternoon to see the scrapbooks and was able to name those two children, completing this project in one day.