Subj : nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
To   : August Abolins
From : Arelor
Date : Wed Mar 24 2021 17:39:16

  Re: nostalgia: postcards,stories +other
  By: August Abolins to All on Wed Mar 24 2021 10:06 am

 > 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.

I am a bit disappointed, because there are lots of barn pictures in it, but I
don't get to see horses in them :-(

Also I got scared when I used the earch bar to find "horse" and I got a recipe
as a result. Thankfully, it was a recipe that used horse radish, so all is
good.


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