Nearly every week we receive inquiries as to when R&R is opening another county in S.C. or going to expand into an adjoining state. It is nice to know that individuals care and want to see more of the area’s history preserved. What started as a means of helping preserve local history in four communities has expanded and will continue to do so. However, it is imperative for R&R to find individuals in each community who want to build the site using their own base of historical knowledge and collections of photographs and postcards. It is for that reason that R&R began the scholars program to encourage people to create their own local history pages using their own knowledge and assets. As of now, three individuals have been approved to directly input data. One is a preservation officer, another, an excellent researcher-writer, and another, a young person with a keen interest in preserving his town’s history. Several additional parties regularly contribute but are intimidated by technology and decline having direct access.
Are you a retired teacher, someone who loves taking photographs, an individual who hordes historic postcards, a genealogist, or someone who has written a local history book? If so, you might be the perfect fit to become an R&R contributor or scholar. And individuals need not be intimidated by the use of R&R’s technology or refrain from requesting to become an R&R scholar for any other reason! It is rather imperative that scholars make themselves available to research, write, and record their own community histories, posting data on R&R with only the simplest of steps and oversight.
Yes, we will continue adding individual counties. But just building the basic information on an individual county site takes months of preparation: collecting images, addresses, links, maps, and sources. The process of then writing associated histories with each page takes years and is truly never-ending. R&R scholars are therefore, direly needed in every community; and no matter your educational level, age, technical abilities, etc., we are interested in speaking with you. Your ability to take photographs, write short histories, conduct research, and share your knowledge is simply imperative. Visit the scholars link on R&R today and let’s get started.