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COUNCIL: MHHS alive and well From page 1A business owners with their comments about why they chose to base their business in Mount Holly. The third video that Bailey showed the council focused on Mount Holly Parks and Recreation facilities and activities such as the Sole Patrol. Upbeat music added to the polished and professional appearance of the videos and projected a positive and upbeat image of Mount Holly. “My hopes for these videos are they be utilized as a tool to promote all that Mount Holly has to offer,� she said. After seeing Bailey’s videos, Mayor Bryan Hough declared he was “amazed�. “It’s fantastic when you see your town like that,� he said. Another presentation to the council came from Roy Vogel with the Mount Holly Historical Society. Vogel touched on what the MHHS had been up over the past several months as well as where it hopes to go in the future. “The Mount Holly Historical Society is alive and well,� Vogel said. “It is a well-oiled machine.� The MHHS is housed in the former city hall building on Main Street and Vogel thanked the council for the use of the space. MHHS accomplishments Vogel cited included boxing up and cataloging archival materials, creating a replica barbershop in the museum, beginning the Mt. Island Mill display project, renovating the greeting room, creating a storage area, achieving 501c3 nonprofit status, recording oral histories of Mount Holly senior citizens, and being part of the state’s Traveling Archivist Program (TAP). The North Carolina State Archives in the Department of Cultural Resources helps entities such as the MHHS through its Traveling Archivist Program (TAP), offering onsite
assistance to institutions that preserve North Carolina’s history and culture. Institutions chosen to participate in this program receive an onsite collections assessment, recommendations for managing and caring for the collections, and staff training and instruction. Cultural institutions eligible for this program include historical and genealogical societies, libraries, archives, museums, and historic houses. “By safeguarding local special collections, we preserve a unique perspective of our state’s history,� said State Archivist Dick Lankford. “The goal of TAP is to educate the staffs who take care of these collections and to encourage best practices in collection preservation and access.� Begun in 2009 as a pilot project with a federal grant from the National Historical Publications Records Commission, TAP has assisted more than 40 institutions in 32 counties. “The TAP representative visited us and said we were light years ahead of where we should be,� said Vogel. “We were one of just a few in the state to be chosen as part of the program.� Things that Vogel declared were on the MHHS plate in the coming months and years included increasing membership and volunteerism, updating the environmental conditions inside the museum with UV filters as well as temperature and humidity controls, computerizing and photographing all archival materials, and creating more theme exhibits such as the one currently on display about the Mt. Island Manufacturing Co. Vogel also told the council that the MHHS intends to reach out and draw more people in from the surrounding area via distribution of promotional brochures and other PR devices. “We are trying to tell the Mount Holly story so that everyone can participate, even if they are from out of town,� he said.
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At the McDonald’s in Belmont, Tareyn McKenzie of Charlotte Muscular Dystrophy Association (left) was joined recently by Shushila Patel and Jeff Stanton of Stanton Enterprise, who owns the restaurant, when Stanton presented a check for $4,000 to help with medical supplies for the MDA summer camps. Patel, a McDonald’s employee who has a daughter with MD, says the camp is the highlight of her year where she enjoys swimming and canoeing.
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