Preserving the past ! j Documents, photos part of history 11" ilil By CHERIE HUBER In this feature on historical preservation pre-servation we have focussed our attention on buildings. However, there is much of our historical past that is even more fragile than old buildings. Every person has historical histor-ical information surrounding his life that is worth preserving. Old documents are in the news. Documents are some of the most interesting and most fragile records of our heritage. Many of the documents docu-ments were considered to be unimportant unim-portant when they were produced. It is the passage of time that gives them meaning. Old tithing receipts, bills of sale for crops, and even shopping lists tell us a great deal about our past. Area farmers often keep detailed records on their crops through the years, the date of the first snow, and the date of the last frost. In future years those records will help add interesting detail to history. While the men are keeping records re-cords of their crops, a neglected heritage among the women is the special recipes that have been passed pas-sed on from generation to generation. genera-tion. It takes time, but these recipes re-cipes can be put on paper through careful observation and experimentation. ex-perimentation. So many people now have tape recorders and video equipment that it is easier to collect personal histories than ever before. Nevertheless, Never-theless, many stories about the past are not collected. The years of the Great Depression, stories from World War I and II, are all incidents inci-dents that will soon be beyond recording re-cording directly from the people who lived through those eras. Photographs are another facet of heritage. All should be labeled with as much detail as possible. The old adage "the faintest ink is better than the best memory" serves well here. However, it is better not to write directly on the backs of the photos. There is a great deal of information in-formation available on the right temperature to store pictures, and the use of acid free materials around the pictures, your librarian will be able to suggest sources of information. Preserving our heritage is worth it. Let's do it now. SITE OF THE old Farmers State Bank. JOSEPH HOGAN HOME in Woods Cross was the birthplace of the first white child born north of Salt Lake City 100 YEAR OLD home of Frank Hatch in West Bountiful was built by his grandfather grand-father one of Joseph Smith's guards. i j D LL q8 J SvL MAIN STATION OF the Bamburger Railroad in North Salt Lake now serves as the home for the Richard Johnston family. See kids' responses to Anson Call home, Page 2, Section B