The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega, Texas, contains your usual array of artifacts and memorabilia from bygone days in the Texas Panhandle.
But the museum also is doing something else — it’s capturing the memories of old-timers for posterity. ABC-7 in nearby Amarillo had this recent report:
A number of universities already are doing this — calling them “oral histories” — and digitizing the audio and video so it’s available for researchers on the Internet.
But the Milburn-Price Museum shows you don’t have to have expensive equipment or elaborate setups to do it. A cheap camera with video capacity and a place for people to drink coffee works well enough.
The Milburn-Price Museum, by the way, is undergoing renovations and should be done by summer. You can follow what it’s doing on Facebook. The museum is at 1005 Coke St., near the Magnolia station off Route 66.