We have bound volumes

By WILLIAM SNOWDEN
Editor



I want to express my thanks to the Wakulla County Historical Society for the loan of 50 years of bound volumes of The Wakulla News, and some Woodville and Leon County News as well.
The Wakulla News recently donated its bound volumes to the historical society, and so did the Wakulla County Public Library. With many duplicates, the historical society offered to loan them to us.
I cannot express how excited I was to get these volumes. It’s part of a local newspaper’s role to be a historical repository of the community.
Back when we were at The Wakulla News, there were many times someone would come in doing family or historical research, and we’d pull the bound volumes out of the morgue for them to study.  
A couple of weeks ago, I drove my truck across the courthouse square and, with help from the historical society volunteers, loaded up the bound volumes and brought them back across the courthouse square to the office. Right now, they fill the hallway of our small office, but soon we’ll have some shelves built to hold them.
I pulled out the volume from 2003 and started flipping through it, which is an easy way to lose a whole afternoon, I can assure you.
One item that caught my attention was Ethel and Willie Skipper’s 50th wedding anniversary. That means they just celebrated their 70th anniversary.
What a treasure trove of historical information.
Thank you again to the historical society for sharing.

William Snowden is editor and publisher of The Wakulla Sun.