Film history fascinates me. I was first introduced to silent film while in my teens via a 1980 Thames Television thirteen-episode documentary series called Hollywood: A Celebration of the American...
Plans are underway to convert the small – but not too small – center room on the east side of the second floor of the museum building for use as a gallery for Mini Exhibits. Change is a very good...
The newest on-line feature exhibition by the FRHS, “MUGS: 1911-1948,” is now available for viewing on the FRHS website. As mentioned in a previous post, the exhibition opens with a brief –...
“Mug shots – gritty depictions of human drama in a pure, unadulterated form, captured in the medium of vernacular photography, that is, images taken by little-known or amateur photographers.”...
One of the things I most enjoy about my work at the FRHS is the research – the thrill of the hunt, actually – that goes into bringing to fruition the desire to “put a face to the name.” Case...
