RECENT NEWS
Live After Five, Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The North Canton Heritage Society along with the YMCA Child Care will host the Chamber of Commerce activity, Live After Five. The meeting will be held from 5 - 7 p.m. at both the Heritage Society and the YMCA Child Care Center. The meeting features refreshments, tours, entertainment, and door prizes. Cost of the ticket is $4 in advance at the Chamber of Commerce, or $5 at the door.
Annual Meeting, Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Attendees to this year’s event got an “up close and personal” tour of the NCHS’ new timeline exhibit, “From Crossroads to City” by Matthew Peek, its creator. Matthew, of Hartville and a senior at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson, KY, has spent the past three summers as an intern with the Society. He, with the direction of NCHS Executive Director Kathleen Fernandez, researched, designed and created this incremental history of New Berlin/North Canton from 1814 to the present which uses artifacts and photographs from the Society collections, some of which had never been on display before. Matt took participants through the timeline, highlighting specific parts of the separate exhibit cases and of the Community Building/YMCA and the Hoover Company. Matt kept the audience captivated with his fascinating stories of our community's past.
About fifty Hoover High School sophomores in U.S. History classes attended. They were very impressed with the presentation, and fascinated by the rich history of North Canton.
Part of the Crossroads to City Exhibit at the NCHS
Membership Quilt
Work has begun on the 2008 Membership Quilt by the members of the Heartfelt Quilters of the North Canton Public Library. Fabric has been selected, including a print with stylized dogwood blossoms, symbolizing the “Dogwood City.” A “rail fence” pattern will be used, with members’ named written on the “rails,” or thin strips of fabric. The quilt will be lap-sized and, when finished, will be placed in the hall display case at the museum. Over 150 members have signed up to be part of the quilt.
A special thank-you to the Heartfelt Quilters and Sarah Olson for their invaluable help with this project.
Sun Project
The Heritage Society, in cooperation with the North Canton Public Library, is working to make the 1940s editions of the North Canton Sun usable to researchers. Click on the Excerpts From Patchwork link for more details.
Photo Reorganization Project
Thanks to the hard work of intern Zach Dunne, a student at Kent State University Stark Campus, the Society’s photo reorganization project is almost halfway complete. The collection of more than 2,500 photographs is being scanned and entered into a computer database. Each photo is then placed in a mylar sleeve and acid-free folder. Names, places or dates can be entered into the search function of the database, and the resulting photo can be seen on the computer screen, and doesn’t involve the use of sometimes-inaccurate card files or the handling of often-fragile photos. The computer and filing materials were acquired through a grant from the Ada and Helen Rank Foundation. Zach’s internship ended on February 1, but intern Ashley Johnson, a freshman at KSU Stark, is continuing his work.
Other News
We still have copies of the pictorial history, North Canton: A Place In Time available in our gift shop. Consider the purchase of this or one of our many other items in our gift shop.