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Explore community history and happenings and go behind-the-scenes with the History Center as we uncover fresh stories and experiences.
Skirting the Issue: Our Connection to Lafayette
Recipes from the Vault: Coca Cola Chicken
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]
Ring Twice If You’re Lonesome
February is the month of love, and we have quite a few love stories in our collection. One example comes from a small, cloth bound book that belonged to the Ochlocknee River Club, a sort of “marriage camp” for Thomas County’s jet set in the 1910s. The book served as a sign-in sheet for attendees as well as a message […]
“Another bad day”: The Diary of Henrietta Eugenia Vickers Armstrong
Recipes from the Vault: A Night at the Piney Woods Hotel
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]
Problems with Peter: The Peter Dekle Letters: Religion
Here at the History Center, we like to supply our collections department interns and volunteers with interesting projects that illustrate what life in Thomas County’s past was like for her citizens. We have many letters, records, diaries, and documents that give sneak peeks into the daily lives of people who were more like us than we may realize.One of our […]
Letters to Santa
By this point in the month, you’ve probably been inundated with commercials and advertisements everywhere for the hottest kids’ toys of the year. From bikes to Legos to dollhouses that are large enough to need their own address, the toys seem to get bigger and fancier with every passing year. And with the advent of online shopping, Santa’s job to […]
Recipes from the Vault – Leftovers
Recipes from the Vault Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If […]
Recipes from the Vault – Wild Goose
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]
Skirting the Issue: Our Connection to Lafayette
Recipes from the Vault: Coca Cola Chicken
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]
Ring Twice If You’re Lonesome
February is the month of love, and we have quite a few love stories in our collection. One example comes from a small, cloth bound book that belonged to the Ochlocknee River Club, a sort of “marriage camp” for Thomas County’s jet set in the 1910s. The book served as a sign-in sheet for attendees as well as a message […]
“Another bad day”: The Diary of Henrietta Eugenia Vickers Armstrong
Recipes from the Vault: A Night at the Piney Woods Hotel
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]
Problems with Peter: The Peter Dekle Letters: Religion
Here at the History Center, we like to supply our collections department interns and volunteers with interesting projects that illustrate what life in Thomas County’s past was like for her citizens. We have many letters, records, diaries, and documents that give sneak peeks into the daily lives of people who were more like us than we may realize.One of our […]
Letters to Santa
By this point in the month, you’ve probably been inundated with commercials and advertisements everywhere for the hottest kids’ toys of the year. From bikes to Legos to dollhouses that are large enough to need their own address, the toys seem to get bigger and fancier with every passing year. And with the advent of online shopping, Santa’s job to […]
Recipes from the Vault – Leftovers
Recipes from the Vault Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If […]
Recipes from the Vault – Wild Goose
Every so often, the museum receives a donation that includes a cookbook or recipe card. Sometimes the recipes are familiar comfort foods still served on many Thomas County tables. Others… well, let’s just say some recipes are best left in the past. This series highlights some of those recipes: from the classics to the experimental. If you try any of […]