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Historical Society president urges residents to add family histories to museum archive
Summary
Howard Smith, president of the Historical Society, told meeting attendees the society preserves artifacts and oral histories and can transfer video interviews from thumb drives into the museum collection.
Howard Smith, president of the Historical Society, told meeting attendees during public comment that the society is collecting artifacts and family histories and offers to transfer video interviews into the museum archive.
"My name's Howard Smith, and I was born and raised in Draper, and I'm currently the president of the Historical Society," Smith said. "What the Historical Society is is a group of people with the idea that we were going to show the history of this location through artifacts, the histories, individual histories that people wrote. We have done interviews ... with the pioneers here ... and their videos. So if your family did one of those, you can come in and bring a thumb drive and we can transfer it onto that. And then you could take that with you and become part of your history."
Smith said the society maintains a museum with clothing and military uniforms and highlighted written personal histories in the collection. "To my opinion, the greatest thing we have are the histories written most times by the individuals at the Painstones," he said.
Smith's remarks were informational and did not include a formal request for city action. No funding, dates for collection drives, or other follow-up assignments were specified during his comments.
