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The Ohio Association of Historical Societies & Museums

I belong to several genealogical societies and a bit more than a couple of historical societies. For a bit more than a year I have been given by the pass-it-on method, a publication of the Ohio Association of Historical Societies & Museums called The Local Historian.

In a recent issue, among many things, I read about History Museums were about collections. Further, that these collections need to be accessible and interpreted. The "stories" that relate to the articles in the collections need to be told.

In telling the stories of the articles History Museums help develop understandings of the past.

In the past museums collected things, primarily for the sake of preserving them. The new look of museums looks at their collections and extracts the best information from them in order to provide learning experiences or opportunities. To help make these "stories" meaningful links and information between the time period of the artifacts and today are analyzed and told in ways that make them relate to people and relevant to lives. We see an influx of "hands on" displays as an example.

The publication informed me that there were more than eleven hundred Ohio Historical Markers in the state. These markers identify, commemorate, and honor important people, places, and events that have contributed to our state's history. There are a few of them illustrated on the world wide web, but I was thinking that it would be wonderful to have an on-line "museum" illustrating them all.

In March [2006], a year long celebration of the 200th birthday of the National Road began at the National Road-Zane Gray Museum. The celebration will include road rallys of vintage automobiles, and a 700 mile long yard sale.

The Ohio Historical Society has sponsored three new Ohio Historical Markers. One in the village of Tadmor in Montgomery County. Another at Norwich, in Muskingum County where in August of 1835, the first traffic fatality occured. The victum, a librarian for the American Antiqauarian Society of Worcester, MA, is interred in a small cemetery on the west end of the town. In Springfield, the Pennsylvania House will also sport a new historical marker.

The October Timeline magazine, another publication of the Ohio Historical Society will feature about the National Road.

How many of your ancestral families traveled the National Road which was authorized by Congress in 1806? Have you realized that this was the FIRST federally funded interstate highway? This was the first road which really opened Ohio's products to the eastern markets.

"History for History's Sake is History" is a headline phrase which speaks volumes. The next time you visit a museum look for items which tell "stories" that you can use for "meat" on the "bones" of you family histories.


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