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Night at The Museum - Springfield, Ohio
March 21, 2009 marked a very successful event in Springfield Ohio. It was a cooperative venture between The George Rogers Clark Heritage Association and The Clark County Historical Society. The GRCHA provided over 50 people in costumes from a variety of eras. The historical society provided the venue - The Heritage Center of Clark County and additional volunteers.
The waiting area featured tables about historical venues in the area. Says Pam Cottrel of the GRCHA “Teddy Roosevelt was outstanding. We also had a great Orville Wright. Some familiar faces from The Fair at New Boston could be seen in totally different time periods but we still had the Ratcatcher and the Shuirrs set a tavern next to the original Black Horse sign. The GRCHA Liberty Dancers performed in the entrance hall! When we put on the Fair in September the historical
center volunteers will help us out with additional manpower. I think cooperation between historical groups is really important in this economy.” Learn more about Night at the Museum on their website at www.grcha.org
Fort Boonesborough Trade Days
Fort Boonesborough hosted it’s annual Trade Days over Memorial Day Weekend. Re-Enactors camped both inside and outside the Fort as a record number of visitors for Trade Fair Weekend came through the gates.
The weather was perfect and The Fort Boonesborough Foundation was on hand selling food and drinks. Authors Dale Payne and John Curry were on hand signing and selling books. Several of Saturday’s visitors were seen back on Sunday - “because they had such a good time!.”
Movie Premier Held in Lexington, KY for new Documentary Film
By Kathy Cummings
Re-Enactors arriving by Limo? It was an unusual mix Thursday evening as the Documentary The Story of McConnell Springs was shown at the Kentucky Theater. Narrated by award winning narrator Peter Thomas and produced by Michael Breeding Media the film will air in June on KET (Kentucky Educational Television) . Shot over the last two years primarily at Founder’s Day at McConnell Springs and other locations the film tells the story of early Lexington and it’s founders. Steve Caudill portrays William McConnell and Tony Richardson is his brother Francis McConnell. Also on hand last evening and featured in the film was Shawnee native re-enactor Greg McDonald.
The Pioneer Times/Graphic Enterprises Web Site Celebrated it’s 5th Birthday in March. In those 5 years we’ve added a lot of information to the site and learned a lot about the world wide web. The internet age has changed too. At first we basically used small photos and geared everything towards a low resolution screen. We figured the majority of web visitors were using dial up.
Those things are now drastically different. Statistics show that the average web visitor has gone from a 800 x 600 to a 1280 x 960 screen resolution. Dial up is
The first web site had about 10 pages - todays site has over 400.
now in the minority, and video and sound, flash files and more are now the order of the day.
So we’ve expanded our page size and will be reworking some of the older pages over the next few weeks. So bear with us through the transition. Email your suggestions and comments.
And watch for coming events! Because spring is here - and we’ll be taking to the road in the next few weeks. With more photos, more stories and more newsreels.
New Index Completed on Web Site
Phase II Completed on Pioneer Times
Last year we embarked on a “face lift” for this web site. The first phase consisted of a cleaner look, easier accessibility and a wider screen size to better take advantage of today’s newer screen technologies. Yesterday we finished the second phase of this project. All articles that
have been added over the years to the news section of our web site have been reorganized and listed in a Table of Contents. By clicking on the Pioneer Times button the viewer will be taken to a list of all the articles that have appeared on these pages. “We have had many requests from people looking for past articles” said Jim Cummings.
Now they will be able to read through the news portions of the web site by year. Although some of the articles are a bit dated there are many feature articles that are not. Features on people and locations still provide valuable information. In addition to the news stories all of the Re-Enactor of the Month Features are loaded and indexed.” Almost completed too is the last phase - which is an index and search engine feature that will be a combined index of articles, photo pages, advertisers and our web connections.
April 25-28th marked the 16th Annual Grassy Run Rendezvous. Hosted by the Grassy Run Historical Arts Committee the event takes place in Williamsburg in Clermont County Ohio.
In addition to the traditional events this year’s event was dedicated to SSgt. Matt Maupin a Clermont County native who’s funeral was taking place this same weekend - after his death in Iraq four years ago.
