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EQUIPMENT YOU WILL NEED
On the Road Again

first draft by
Gerry Stoner

Objective: Carry at least a minimum of tools so that you can always access any particular item.

• a small digital camera
• a dollar bill (it can be used to provide a measurement scale for a picture or get a donut)
• paper and pen/pencil
• some sort of business card with contact information. I use a small pad with information on northerncatskillshistory.com printed on one side, and a structure for notes on the other. The headings of name, date, source, phone/email, location, and action remind me to take complete notes.
  
  

This article is one of several to help you document local history. Other articles will help you convert your interviews, documents, pictures, and artifacts into documentation of your local history that can be shared with your community.

Assignment: Most historical societies close down for the winter, and non-migratory neighbors tend to fight cabin fever by going to the Saturday or Sunday afternoon movies in Hunter, at the Power Authority, or another venue. While these may be fun, I hope you set up this alternative: host a series of workshops using this article as a focus and start to document your own local history.

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