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Become a Cheshire Archivist

Be a digital archivist for "Cheshirepedia"

Are you a great photographer or an eagle-eyed fact-checker? Your skills are needed for the compilation of the online historical resource, "Cheshirepedia."

Town Historian Jeanné Chesanow is gathering like-minded individuals for the town's first-ever online encyclopedia. She envisions the site would offer historic documents, essays and photos which would be presented in a scholarly fashion on the Internet.

Here is a list of the areas of expertise for Cheshirepedia:

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  • Artist
  • Editor
  • Fact-checker
  • Photographer
  • Planner
  • Researcher
  • Reviewers
  • Scanner
  • Web Designer
  • Writer

Those interested in helping in these areas should cheshirepedia@ cox.net.

Chesanow offered these possible topics for the site:

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  • trolleys
  • railroads
  • Native American arrowheads
  • gardening
  • the Farmington Canal
  • geology
  • art
  • amphibians

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