The Archive Project
For many years the old general store drawers served as place to store documents and photos related to local and library history. Wooden drawers are not ideal for paper and photographic materials, so we have begun an archiving project. The goals of the project are three-fold:
*Discovering and documenting, through written record and digital images
*Putting materials into archival storage
*Creating access to the materials through programming, rotating exhibits, and the creation of a digital catalog.
Thank you to the Vermont Community Foundation’s Northeast Kingdom Fund for their generous support of this project!
If you’d like to volunteer to help with this project, let us know by stopping by the library, sending an email or filling out the form on our volunteer page.
Bunnee Grant’s Films
In 2021 we received a donation of 16 mm films taken by Bunnee Grant, an amateur photographer and filmmaker who worked with with Miss Jean’s family most of her life. These films were shot in the 1930’s, 40’s and 50’s, and include footage of local farming (haying, sugaring, cutting oats), winter scenes in East Craftsbury, as well as films of some of Miss Jean’s Shakespeare productions. On November 19th, 2021, we reviewed 30 of these films using two manual film viewers with the help of Rachel Onuf, the director of Vermont Historic Records, Fred Pond from the Vermont Historical Society, and Mary Albee. The films were declared to be in good condition and of good quality. We are excited to get these films digitized and accessible to the community! Thanks to a grant from the Craftsbury Community Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, we were able to have the collection digitized.
Photo, L to R: Mary Albee, Tom Warnock (library volunteer), and Fred Pond reviewing Bunnee Grant’s films with manual film viewers
This summer we were very lucky to have Simmons University student, Lila Crum, working with us in the library archives. She is studying for her Masters Degree in Library Science, with a concentration in Archives Management. She created a finding aid for our correspondence collection (775 items and counting) which you can view here. Thank you, Lila!