{"id":32467,"date":"2018-09-23T18:36:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32467"},"modified":"2018-09-23T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:36:38","slug":"not-a-museum-but-its-a-step-toward-preserving-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32467","title":{"rendered":"Not a museum, but it’s a step toward preserving history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum administrators might have read my blog, or they might have been thinking about it already.<\/p>\n

I’ll go with the latter, out of a sense of humility.<\/p>\n

The Amarillo Globe-News has revealed that the PPHM along with Amarillo National Bank are joining hands in an effort to preserve the newspaper’s archived text for posterity.<\/p>\n

This is good news for those of us who loved the G-N, who loved working there (as I did for nearly 18 years) and who cherish the history that was recorded by the once-towering presence in Amarillo and the High Plains region of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico.<\/p>\n

The PPHM will store the bound volumes and microfiche at a site away from the G-N’s former offices at Ninth Avenue and Harrison Street. The G-N recently vacated that site for new office space in the 31-story bank tower that soon will carry the name of FirstBank Southwest.<\/p>\n

I had pitched the idea of converting the Ninth and Harrison building into a museum that would display the history of the newspaper. I get that the cost could be prohibitive to do such a thing.<\/p>\n

But at the very least the newspaper’s new owners, GateHouse Media, have worked out an agreement with PPHM and ANB to store the archived material suitably.<\/p>\n

As I understand it, the bound volumes and the microfiche have been moved to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal operation 120 miles south of Amarillo. PPHM will locate an estimated 150 file cabinets full of clippings, photos and photo negatives to the downtown Amarillo site.<\/p>\n

That’s a start. Perhaps it will lead to something even more grand \u2026 such as a museum! I won’t hold my breath.<\/p>\n

For now, though, I’ll just applaud to decision to maintain the history that the award-winning newspaper recorded while chronicling the evolution of the region it once served with pride and distinction.<\/p>\n\n

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