A perfect song for Fathers Day:
Whether your seldom-viewed but irreplaceable videos are of holidays past or baby’s first tottering steps, the clock is ticking on footage saved to aging analog tapes. This year, resolve to preserve and share this stored legacy—digitally. Here are ways to make it easy.
Lynda Angelastro has written a great article describing options for digitizing your precious video moments.
Venice, city of masks, city of mystery. After the success of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, author John Berendt searched for another city, another subject. He chose the island city of Venice; in his words, "uniquely beautiful…isolated geographically and emotionally…inward-looking….steeped in tradition." When he arrived in 1996, the city was almost smoldering in controversy: Just three days before, La Fenice, its historic opera house, had gone up in flames, and this city of canals was awash in rumors and accusations about the fire's cause. As Berendt immersed himself in Venetian culture, he learned that secrets and quarrels were seldom far beneath the surface. In City of Falling Angels, he reveals Venice as a festering hive of eccentrics, connivers, and provocateurs; a mazelike city where mysteries unfold upon mysteries and where even murder is a matter of opinion.
Just getting started, but it looks like it will be just as good as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - one of my favorite books. Funny, it's not available in the Kindle store but Barnes & Noble does have it as an ebook - and a lendable one at that!
In two years, students, historians, and anyone else curious about nearly a century of history should have 100,000 pages of Tennessee newspapers at their fingertips. The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize local newspapers from 1836 to 1922.
"This is telling what the people of the time experienced at the time they experienced it," says JoAnne Deeken, head of technical services and digital access at the university system's libraries. "We can relive it through their eyes."
The state's history during the period covered by the project includes the forced relocation of American Indians, known as the Trail of Tears, which began in Tennessee; the Battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War; and the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women's suffrage the two-thirds majority it needed to pass. Tennessee is "a very important state during this time period," Ms. Deeken says.
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This week in our Photo Monument column Gale Wall shares a link with us to Lettering in Marble from the Vermont Marble Company, published in the 1920's. Hop on over to the GYR Online Journal and read the booklet and the next time you see a marble headstone you just may look at it a little longer.
So more than blogs, more than electronic books, portable documents, or just plan web pages, E-Publishing will be the combination of a widespread Internet reaching all over the world to a variety of devices ranging from tablets, to laptops, to cellular telephones. Once all of these devices have access to electronic documents, then we will experience a renaissance in the written world.
A fascinating article . . .
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If you're looking to scrapbook some family history, check out these sites for an affordable way to do it.
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Just got some beautiful white acre peas, local blueberries and the biggest Ruskin tomatoes I've ever seen. Don't you just love summer!
New Article on the GYR Online Journal
This week in our Tech T.I.P. column Denise gives up tips on managing our blog archives. Hop on over to the GYR Online Journal and read the article.
This week in our Tech T.I.P. column Denise gives up tips on managing our blog archives. Hop on over to the GYR Online Journal and read the article.