Update

Today was my last day at Disciples of Christ Historical Society in Nashville.   June 1, 2011 would have marked five years at the Society.  I visited DCHS for the first time as a researcher in March or April 1992.  I was working on a high school history project and Uncle RD Ice suggested I might find [...]

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Pictures of Cane Ridge, 4: Barton Stone letter and sermons

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Pictures of Cane Ridge, 3: Artifacts from the museum

Museum: Ca. 1880′s pulpit: Interior of the meetinghouse showing the placement of the 1880′s pulpit in the location of the original pulpit. Exterior view of the meetinghouse with clapboards: Communion set used by Cane Ridge congregation: Walter Scott’s copy of Living Oracles.  Look closely in the second photo to see his name stamped on the [...]

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Two local history blogs

Two blogs of particular note to Nashvillians and Tennesseans are Gordon Belt’s The Posterity Project and Betsy Thorpe’s Nashville Past and Present. If you are interested in history, archives and state and local history, I think you will find these two to be right up your alley.

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Genealogical Workshop

Genealogists in the Nashville area will want to know about this event: Located in the buckle of America’s Bible belt, Nashville, Tennessee is home to several major repositories of religious records.  Denominational archives, publishing boards, and local congregations offer a wide array of research opportunities.  In addition to documenting de­nominational histories, religious archives also preserve [...]

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Oral History Collection to ACU

Click here for the announcement and here for the video describing the donation of this fine collection of material: The collection consists of 20 separate files, 12 audio cassettes and 5 audio mini cassettes of interviews. The written files contain summary transcripts of the interviews, notes, and related material about each of the individuals interviewed [...]

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Another archives blog

Keep up with Erin Adams, University Archivist at Freed-Hardeman University, here. Check out the new website for the University Archives here.

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Tweets from the Past

My colleague Sara Harwell has an innovative project afoot.  In 2007 DCHS was given a marvelous collection of material from First Christian Church, Frankfort, Kentucky.  Included in the gift were decades worth of diaries kept by FCC minister George Darsie.  In brief daily entries George recounts the ins and outs, the people and moments, the [...]

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Two Disciples websites, and a reflection on archiving

DisciplesWorld‘s website will change and evolve over the next few months.  Keep up with it all at Verity Jones’ blog here and get connected at the Intersection, a social networking site for Disciples and friends, here.  Change and evolution is the order of the day it seems. It remains to be seen what an archive [...]

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Louisville Free Public Library flood damage

Read the story and see the pictures at Library Journal. Eerie…really eerie.  Especially since as I type this we have workmen in T. W. Phillips Memorial replastering the ceiling in the Fiers Lecture Hall in preparation for painting to be followed by new flooring.   Then the crew will move downstairs for more painting, more new [...]

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