The National Fire Heritage Center thanks you for your past support of our mission. We are thankful that you have enabled us to collect over 30,000 archive documents and want you to know that through an agreement we made this year with Internet Archives, in about two years, they will have scanned and entered these documents into their online library in the NFHC section.
We have kept items we consider prime archives of the history of America’s fire services and disciplines. We are also building relations with the Fire Museum Network to facilitate transfer of non-archival items we receive so they can be properly displayed in participating museums.
Our headquarters had to be moved. We are thankful for the opportunity to have our office, some storage space, access to a conference room and exposure to traffic coming to the Allegheny Museum in Cumberland. Our new address is 3 Pershing Street Suite 307, Cumberland MD 21502 and our phone number is (301) 876-3454. Our budget for our office and storage is $900 a month, all utilities included.
Our board had a successful meeting in October where we completed our strategic plan for the next 5 years. Projects we have targeted to initiate in 2025 that are the focus of our new donor categories to sustain our finances. They include:
- Building museum relations
- Launching a research journal
- Virtual training for archivists on fire services history
- Growing archive collection management
- Promoting fire history awareness via the NFHC blog and website
We look forward to hearing your response to our plans and your questions about how you can best support our efforts. Do you have research to be submitted? Do you have information to share through our blog? Who could you nominate for the Hall of Legends, Legacies and Leadership and the Ben Franklin Writers Award. Will you be listed in our Who’s Who directory? We are thankful for your past and future contributions that sustain our efforts.
Regards,
Lynn White, President
Dick DeVore, Archivist and Executive Director
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