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    From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to All on Wed Mar 24 10:06:00 2021
    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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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Thu Mar 25 05:48:58 2021
    Aug wrote --

    For the last 10 years I've been involved in building and
    maintaining a site to chronicle and archive news clippings

    Golly. what a great site!
    I can see now where I'm going to be spending some time. :)
    About all we have around here is a "Old Huntington" FB page with photos
    of buildings, people and events.
    I have worked off and on (mostly off the last couple of years) compiling listings of businesses in town over the years using the Polk Directory.
    Started just being interested in who lived in my apartment and the
    building in general over the years, what they did, etc.
    Then it became "business that were on this block", that became another
    block and soon all of down town over the years.
    I'm one of those people when told this or that business is in
    such-and-such a place I say "Oh, in the old so-and-so building" and know where it is.
    The new business/name not so much. :)
    Joe
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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to August Abolins on Wed Mar 24 23:01:46 2021
    https://wellandhistory.ca

    Thanks for sharing that. It's interesting to know that there's someone in BBSland from just about every corner of Ontario.

    The closest I've been to there (in Canada) is Hamilton. That's another fun
    city to visit. I stayed at a hotel there and was impressed with everything about Hamilton that I was able to see in a day.

    It's like the olde worlde ;)

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to Aaron Thomas on Thu Mar 25 21:40:00 2021
    Hello Aaron!

    ** On Wednesday 24.03.21 - 23:01, you wrote to me:

    The closest I've been to there (in Canada) is Hamilton. That's another
    fun city to visit. I stayed at a hotel there and was impressed with everything about Hamilton that I was able to see in a day.

    I may have been through Hamilton 3 or 4 times in my life, but
    not know that it is noted for anything but primarily as the
    steel town.

    It's like the olde worlde ;)

    What did you see there to be impressed?

    --
    ../|ug

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 to August Abolins on Fri Mar 26 08:35:38 2021
    I may have been through Hamilton 3 or 4 times in my life, but
    not know that it is noted for anything but primarily as the
    steel town.

    It's like the olde worlde ;)

    What did you see there to be impressed?

    I stayed at a hotel near the airport which I thought was a fancy hotel (but everything is fancy in Canada.) I think it was just a Sheraton but I can't remember.

    The buildings looked Victorian and it felt like I was in England. I think they have their own version of Big Ben, unless that was just a bank or something.

    I was only there for 1 night and just to board a flight from Hamilton airport the next morning. But next time I'm going to explore that city a bit more.

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