Results tagged “microfilm” from York Town Square

Scott Blanchard, Sunday editor at the York Daily Record/Sunday News, e-mailed me this week that someone was "tweeting" from a Civil War conference in Gettysburg.

(S)ome interesting stuff on there," he wrote.

Indeed.

I checked out the link he sent and found that Blue Ridge Country magazine editor Cara Ellen Modisett was posting on Twitter impressions from the "Panel discussion at the Journey Through Hallowed Ground's Annual Conference."

You can see her 'tweets' at http://twitter.com/BRCeditor (you might have to go to second or third page). She even provided a twitpic on the panelists at http://twitpic.com/ajqsm.

It's an example of how technology is helping disseminate neat stuff on the history front... .

This front page is an example of the treasures found in microfilm. It shows TMI shortly before the accident in 1979 disabled Unit No. 2. It is possibly one of the last newspaper photographs to capture the scene in which steam was rising from No. 2's cooling towers. Today, steam rises from Unit 1's towers, and Unit 2's stacks are partially dismantled.

The availability of newspaper microfilm is among the questions most posed to the York Daily Record/Sunday News.

Lee Hoffheins from Glen Rock, for example, e-mailed us this week thinking Daily Record archives went back only as far as 1985.

He was in luck... .