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!