Subj : nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
To   : All
From : August Abolins
Date : Wed Mar 24 2021 10:06:00

Hello All!

For the last 10 years I've been involved in building and  
maintaining a site to chronicle and archive news clippings of  
births, obits, marriages, and postcards, etc.. primarily of the  
Welland Ontario region.  It has since expanded into three  
"sections" (Main, Tales, Events) each requiring their own CMS  
installations.

If you are interested in exploring photos of barns and churches  
all over southern Ontario and other pieces of history ..then  
check out:

 https://wellandhistory.ca

The S)earch feature works fairly well.  Look up names, places,  
dates.  Even content of Comments is included.

I'll admit, that a fresher CMS design would be ideal (this *was*  
innovative for its time 10 years ago afterall!), but the  
original intent is primary an archive.

It is a project where the founders prefer to be known as "S & B"

Every newsclipping was cropped, resized, reshaped. That's over  
10,000 now.  Every post was planted and re-edited when required  
- those exceed 11,000.

It runs on an older Wordpress version. I'd love to have a better  
photo gallery. But it will have to do for a little while longer.  
Porting to a newer WP would be *another* project!

And that's a little glipse of my world.

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 * Origin: Time moves in one direction, memory in another. -WG- (2:221/1.58)

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