Last Call!

Yes, yes. We all wait till the last minute. Well, folks, the last minute is here!

This Saturday, March 31st, Frostburg Firemen are sponsoring the FINAL photo scanning day for Frostburg: Document 2012. This will be the last chance to have your photographs included in the official keepsake book of Frostburg's Bicentennial.

March 31st

1-4 pm

Frostburg Fire Station #2

298 East Main Street

If you or someone you know has been meaning to participate, please do so! Take a moment to find your favorite photos that depict life in our town since 1962, bring them to the Fire Station on Saturday, and be a part of Bicentennial history. Participation is FREE!

Scanning Days 3 & 4 Recap!

Last weekend, we did double scanning duty -- first at the Frostburg Museum on Saturday, then at the Frostburg Heights Apartments on Sunday. We met some more great people, heard their stories, and received more fantastic photo submissions. Brigette Thomas and Ed Dewitt helped us out with the scanning.

Frostburg native Leah Scarpelli stopped by both locations. She is a producer for NPR's Morning Edition and is putting together a piece about Frostburg's Bicentennial! She got some recordings from Michael and I and from some of the participants.

We will be making the rounds a couple more times over the next few months, but time's a tickin'! 2012 is here, folks! If you or someone you know hasn't yet taken part, please do so.

Plans for our next scanning day are in the works. In the meantime, enjoy some of our recent submissions below.

Submitted by Linda & Bernie Zlomek

Submitted by Linda & Bernie Zlomek

Submitted by Sandi Buckalew

Submitted by Sandi Buckalew

Submitted by Chuck Dicken

Submitted by Gordon Kight

Submitted by Norma Scarpelli

Submitted by Norma Scarpelli

Submitted by Carol Dinning

Submitted by Carol Dinning

Submitted by Francis Scarpelli

Submitted by Francis Scarpelli

Submitted by Peggy and John Scarpelli

Submitted by Peggy and John Scarpelli

Submitted by Peggy and John Scarpelli

Scanning Day #2 Recap!

On November 12th, Michael & I set up shop at Main Street Books to scan more photographs from the Frostburg community. Lisa Sheirer and Brigette Thomas were our trusty scanning assistants. We got another great round of submissions, talked to some great folks, ate cookies, drank coffee, and had an all-around pretty swell time.

Greg Auldridge (above left), a good friend, fellow photographer, and co-creator of our first book about Frostburg, Frostburg: Document 2002 stopped by with his wife, Kelly (behind the camera).

That evening, Michael, Lisa, Brigette, and I headed over to Dante's, and though we were only there a couple of hours, we received another healthy batch of photo submissions.

If you haven't participated yet, please join us on January 28th at the Frostburg Museum, 1-4pm. Bring your photos! We still have a lot of work to do to make this book representative of the entire Frostburg community. We also have a Facebook page. There you'll see even more images and you can chime in on some ongoing conversations about the project. Tell your friends, colleagues, coworkers, cousins, kids, parents, neighbors...

A sampling of our November 12th bounty is below. We got a good variety of images!

Submitted by Sue Gerhard

Submitted by Patricia Thomas

Submitted by Mike Snyder

Submitted by Sue Gerhard

Submitted by Marianne Jeffrey Zeltner

Submitted by Les Sattinger

Submitted by Mary Anne Jenkins

Submitted by Patricia Thomas

Submitted by Howard Mendelsohn

Submitted by Darlene Shelton

Submitted by Charles Walker

Submitted by Mike Snyder

Submitted by Kirsten Getz

Submitted by Lindsay Wilson

Next Scanning Day - January 28!

Our second scanning day was a success! We scanned hundreds of photos between our time spent at Main Street Books and Dante's. We still need to collect a lot more to make the book even somewhat representative of Frostburg's past 50 years.

First scanning day!

On Saturday, September 24th, we spent the day at the Frostburg City Library where we welcomed our first submissions. We worked with more than 20 participants who came to the library and shared their photographs.

Mark your calendars: We'll be back soon for round 2 of scanning, this time at Main Street Books and Dante's. Bring us your pictures! Remember, all photos should date from 1962 to the present.

November 12th
Main Street books, 10 am - 5 pm
Dante's Bar, 8 pm - 10 pm

Frostburg: Document 2012

THE BACKSTORY

In 2002, along with our friend Greg Auldridge, we created a handmade book of black-and-white photographs: Frostburg: Document 2002. You may have seen the book at the the Frostburg City Library, where for nearly ten years it has remained on a table for browsing. The book's 72 photographs were conceptualized and sequenced to be "read" as a photographic journey through the city: the book begins with an image shot during an early morning walk along Grant Street, takes the "reader" up the hill into town to eat breakfast at the Princess Restaurant, stops by Main Street Books and other shops, and eventually the book ends, late at night, with an image of a full moon, shot at nearly the same location on Grant Street.

For us, the purpose of the book was to document the city we loved and to make a record that we could refer to years down the road. Made in an edition of five, we donated a book to both the Frostburg City Library and the Lewis J. Ort Library at Frostburg State University. At the time, we promised to produce a similar book every ten years. Well, ten years is just about up, and we have begun planning our next book!


FROSTBURG: DOCUMENT 2012

Fortunately for us, the anniversary of Frostburg: Document 2002 coincides perfectly with Frostburg's Bicentennial. For our next book, we are requesting pictures from the Frostburg community to make Frostburg: Document 2012. We are asking that people scour photo albums, trunks, and attics, and submit their most meaningful pictures for inclusion in the book. Our goal is to tell the story of the Mountain City’s 200 years through photographs of family picnics, school portraits, birthday parties, a child’s first bike ride, holiday dinners, first cars, proms and pets. Frostburg: Document 2012 aspires to be a community photo album that traces Frostburg’s rich history through pictures of its people, families, and communities.

Frostburg: Document 2012 will be professionally bound and printed, and participation is free.


PHOTOGRAPH SUBMISSIONS

Participation in Frostburg: Document 2012 is free and open to the public, and all participants will receive credit for their pictures. We are looking for pictures that represent the past 50 years of Frostburg's history. There will be a number of opportunities to submit photographs in the coming months, and they will be scanned on-site. The first submission date is as follows, further dates TBA:

Saturday, September 24th
Frostburg City Library Community Room
10am - 5pm

Photographs can also be submitted by mail, and will be scanned and promptly returned. Send to Michael Lease & Kim Wolfe, 3409 Chatham Road, Richmond, Virginia 23227.

Please contact us regarding email submissions.


SPREAD THE WORD

We need your help! Each of you are important to the Frostburg community and we are hoping that you'll encourage your friends, families, neighbors, coworkers, and customers to participate in Frostburg: Document 2012.


Thanks!