Ames Historical Society Lecture - April 28, 2009

The Ames Historical Society has a series of presentation each year. The last presentation for this year's series is A Drive Through Ames and Story County using historic images from the IDOT which will be Tuesday, April 28, 2009, at 7 p.m. at the Ames City Auditorium. More details are available on their website.

Monthly Meeting - March 24, 2009

The regular monthly meeting of the Cambridge Historical Association was held Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Among the items discussed were:

• The list of Cambridge, Iowa Veterans we are preparing. Thank you to everyone that has contacted us with additional veterans information.
  
• Upcoming meetings: the Story County Historical Societies will be meeting April 4th at Story City.
• Upcoming meetings: Wayne Messer will be attending the workshop Preserving Your History by Tanya Zanish-Belcher at Corning, Iowa on March 27th.

The next regular meeting will be Tuesday, April 21st at 7 p.m. at the Cambridge Historical Association headquarters, 209 Water Street.

Monthly Meeting - February 17, 2009

The regular monthly meeting of the Cambridge Historical Association was held Tuesday, February 17, 2009. Among the items discussed were:

• Preparing a list of veterans in the Cambridge cemeteries for Memorial Day honors. We are using the lists of veterans in our book: Cambridge, Iowa The First 150 Years as the starting point. Cemetery records and our collection of obituaries are being combined with the lists. If you have additional sources or know others that should be included, please let us know.
  
• Preparation of a display for Jubilee Days, which is the second weekend in June. The theme will be Cambridge Area Schools with much of it coming from our book: Cambridge, Iowa 150 Years of Education in Cambridge and Union Township, Story County, Iowa.
  
• Designing a sign for the Heart of Iowa Nature Trail being constructed south of Cambridge.
• Thank you for the donation of historic items from John Kalsem and Dorothy Hynd.
  

The next regular meeting was scheduled for March 17th, later postponed to Tuesday, March 24th at 7 p.m. It will be held at the Cambridge Historical Association headquarters, 209 Water Street.

Monthly Meeting Postponed to March 24, 2009

The regular monthly meeting of the Cambridge Historical Association has been postponed for one week. The March meeting will be held Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at 7 p.m.

Next Meeting Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Just a reminder that the next meeting of the Cambridge Historical Association, Cambridge, Iowa, is next Tuesday - February 17, 2009, at 7 p.m. Everyone is invited.

Photos of Current Cambridge, Iowa - Follow-up

Just a short note following up our previous post. Random Iowa did visit on February 8th and took great pictures of some Cambridge landmarks. Some of them are in this posting on their blog. This also includes a link to the Cambridge pictures they have posted on Wikimedia. Some of the pictures were incorporated in the Wikipedia article on Cambridge, Iowa.

Thank you Random Iowa for this project and for including Cambridge in it.

Photos of Current Cambridge, Iowa

The Random Iowa blog had as its topic this week visiting Cambridge, Iowa. (They were planning to visit on February 8th.) They travel around Iowa to a different area each week to take interesting photographs for Wikimedia Commons, i.e., the pictures may be used in Wikipedia articles and related projects. For example, the pictures might be used to illustrate the Cambridge, Iowa Wikipedia article. I'm pleased they planned to visit us and look forward to seeing the pictures.

They asked for suggestions of sights to photograph and I offered the American Legion Mural and the Memorial on Water Street. What do you think we should be photographing? What pictures should the Cambridge Historical Association be collecting now to document Cambridge's history for the future? Please add your comments here or contact us.

Finding that Random Iowa, which I was previously unaware of, was going to visit was partly luck and partly use of some of the tools available on the Internet. The timing was mainly luck because Random Iowa posted their plans on the day before their visit. I found out about their plans because I also have a Google Alert for Cambridge, Iowa, which searches blogs and sends results, if any, daily. You can set these up to email or receive via a Feed Reader. For more information, see the Google Alerts FAQ. The results I receive are similar to this Google blog search for "Cambridge Iowa", just spread out in time rather than all at once.