Unfolds Local history is alive today in a way that we suspect most people wouldn't think of. But local history can be alive in an entirely different way, as was seen this week in the story in this paper about the diaries of a Civil War soldier from Hancock County being acquired by the Center of Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University. The diaries are being microfilmed and will be made available to the public. In a way, they have come alive again with their additional insight into America's roughest time as a nation.
History is anything but a dead subject.
It is constantly unfolding, not only from the scholarship of historians, but also from new sources, such as Lt. Dilworth's diaries coming to light. Here in Hancock County and northwest Ohio we are fortunate to have the Hancock Historical Museum and the Center of Archival Collections, both of which can preserve and process this new material professionally so that it can benefit us all. If anyone has historical diaries, letters, photographs or whatever in their homes, we encourage them to either make them available or share them with these institutions. In most cases copies can be made if the originals can't be given up, so that they can still be a valuable part of this constant unfolding and revealing of our past.