Fredonia <3

I adore this town. So much. ^_______________^

I stopped in to the Darwin R. Barker Museum (on the corner of Main and Day streets, attatched to the Darwin R. Barker Library) today, hoping the upstairs would be open so I could get a photo of an old bookshelf I remember being up there for a background image on my project. As I was poking around the Victorian room, taking a few quick photos, one of the women working there came up to talk to me. I mentioned I was looking around for ideas and inspiration for a project I was working on for class, involving a story of some students at the Normal School around 1900...and before I knew it, I was ushered into the research room and had a polio of old class photos, dating back into the 1800s. ^___________^ Then a file was pulled out, full to the brim with old papers from the Normal School, play programmes and commencement programmes and all sorts of awesome things.
I was overwhelmed. *giggles* I didn't look at anything today, as I hadn't any paper with me to take notes, nor had I planned on staying there long (I'm definitely in need of a nap, I think), but I think I'll head back tomorrow afternoon, when the upstairs will be open, and will immerse myself in 1900 Fredonia. Oh this is far too fun. *laughs* I need to get going on the actual website end of it though.....
I had noooo idea there was that much in that little room in there, I'd peeked in there before but hadn't the faintest what sorts of wonderful resources were stashed in there, that's so fecking cool. And the people were so nice and friendly, and so trusting too, giving me permission to go through all these things with no hassle at all...
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