South Shore Public Libraries are doing their part to preserve local history.
Four years ago they began compiling old Bridgewater Bulletin news stories dating back to 1898.
Chief Librarian Troy Myers says it has been a lot of time and hard work.
He says each individual page had to be scanned and it took almost two years.
“Which is very challenging,” he says.
“We started off with a little bit of grant money that we got from the old Community Access Program, CAP, and then that ran out when we realized how time-consuming it was.”
Myers says they’ve already had people looking for pictures from their old days in the skating club.
“So I thought that was exactly what we intended to do – we wanted to take that old community information, which is important to us, and make it accessible for people.”
It took a total of four years to collect and archive each individual page.
Myers says he hopes build on the collection with personal photographs from people in Lunenburg and Queens County.
To see a full compilation of archived papers, go to South Shore Public Library.
