Our new best thing

My hands are covered with newsprint ink. I have been counting treasure.

My wife brought home a shoebox from the estate of her parents. Inside, carefully cut-out and stacked are nearly all 900 historical minutes from the Tri-Town news written by Afton historian, Charles Decker.  It is nearly as priceless a gift for our library as I can imagine.

I have already begun discussion with some Junior Honor Society students on how we might go about digitizing, tagging, and sharing this one-of-a-kind resource. I hope we might do justice to the vision and care of the actual archiver.