{"id":4985,"date":"2018-08-31T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lizzieborden.org\/CuratorsCorner\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:37:03","slug":"durfee-yearbooks-now-only-seven-sought-by-the-frhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/2018\/08\/31\/durfee-yearbooks-now-only-seven-sought-by-the-frhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Durfee Yearbooks\u2014Now Only Seven Sought by the FRHS"},"content":{"rendered":"

I freely admit that I am not social media savvy\u2014I know the basics\u2014sort of\u2014and that is well enough for me.\u00a0 But I have become a firm believer\u2014a convert, I suppose\u2014of the benefits of social media, especially so when used for research purposes or, in this instance, to build library holdings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Case in point:<\/span><\/p>\n

A message on the FRHS\u2019s Facebook page in response to my last posting on the subject of the FRHS\u2019s \u201cwant list\u201d of eight editions of the Durfee Record<\/em>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have 1941 in perfect condition with the Class Day Program. Please PM me.<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We did.<\/span><\/p>\n

And just like that, the Durfee Record\u00a0<\/em>\u201cwant list\u201d went from eight volumes to seven.<\/span><\/p>\n

The donor\u2014a Rhode Island native, with Fall River ancestry\u2014read my blog posting via Facebook, thought about the sought-after volumes a bit, and checked her bookcase.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voil\u00e0.<\/span><\/p>\n

There it was: Her late father-in-law\u2019s 1941 edition of the Durfee Record<\/em>. A Fall River native, he moved to Tiverton, Rhode Island, in 1947, and his year book went with him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday there was a follow-up telephone call\u2014very interesting conversation, though I fear I rambled\u2014and this afternoon the 1941 was added to the FRHS\u2019s collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you to the donor and her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazing, how one thing leads to another. The donor\u2019s grandfather worked in the men\u2019s department at Fall River\u2019s iconic R. A. McWhirr Company\u00a0<\/em>department store, her mother and her aunt were employed there, and she, of course, was a customer.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the FRHS currently in the process of documenting the history of McWhirr\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>for exhibition and publication purposes, her personal and familial recollections of the store should make for a very interesting interview.<\/span><\/p>\n

And all this due to social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, regarding the Durfee Record<\/em>, we are now down to seven: 1913; 1914; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; and 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you are reading this, have a Fall River\/B.M.C. Durfee High School connection, and are a person who saves things, I have a suggestion\u2014please check your bookcase(s) or wherever else you keep old books and\/or things saved by family members.<\/span><\/p>\n

One never knows.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the sought-after-seven may be sitting there, waiting for a new home.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I freely admit that I am not social media savvy\u2014I know the basics\u2014sort of\u2014and that is well enough for me.\u00a0 But I have become a firm believer\u2014a convert, I suppose\u2014of the benefits of social media, especially so when used for research purposes or, in this instance, to build library holdings. Case in point: A message …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallriverhistorical.org\/CuratorsCorner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}