From the Director
Greetings! Crisp air, deep blue skies, and colorful trees mean that autumn has finally arrived in Middle Tennessee. The Gore Center has begun its first full academic year in our new facility (see the Spring 2005 newsletter for pictures). We've started a new year with many new faces as well! Five new graduate students are working at the Gore Center and the County Archives.
We've been quite busy, as the contents of this newsletter indicate. A steady stream of visitors has kept things lively. We hosted the July meeting of the Rutherford County Historical Society and a crowd of about 50 people attended to see our new digs. August brought the Forties Bunch, a fun group of ladies who attended Middle Tennessee State College during the 1940s. Three history classes came in September for an introduction to the Gore Center's resources, followed late in the month by a small group of Advanced Placement United States History teachers from around the region. In October, a group of faculty from Cherbourg, France, visited. We will be welcoming attendees of MTSU's Seventh Bi-Annual Holocaust Studies Conference on the afternoon of October 27. They will have the opportunity to view a small display featuring "Eyewitnesses to the Holocaust" whom we have interviewed as part of the Veterans History Project. The main attraction, however, is a traveling exhibit of Theodore Geisel's World War II political cartoons.
As usual, our routine work continues: acquiring and processing collections and conducting oral history interviews. Read up on our "New and Newly Processed Collections" here.
We hope to see many of you visiting the Gore Center in the coming weeks!!