Imaging Specialists is working with the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society on its award-winning series, Alleghany Memories. The series won a Paul Green Multimedia Award for the premier episode that featured Pauline Jolly and Mildred Torney- both former county librarians.
The current episode features an interview with Bobby Irwin, Vietnam-era Marine combat photographer and videographer, and was produced in conjunction with the Walter Frank Osborne, Jr. Deatachment 1298 Marine Corps League from Sparta, North Carolina.
ISI produced titles and a short slide show of Mr. Irwin’s images that airs at the end of the episode. The episode is available for viewing, online, at actv.me, Alleghany Community Television’s new streaming site.
The program is the first of four produced with the Marine Corps League and is hosted by current Commandant, John Irwin. Subsequent episodes will feature interviews of J.T. Pardue, Bill Sebastian and Charles Pugh- all members of the local detachment.
ISI is proud to be able to have a part in this interesting and historic series.
The newest edition of Alleghany County Cemeteries through 1986, available now at the Sparta Store
Imaging Specialists has reworked the Alleghany Cemeteries book to make it easier to use and more sturdy in the latest edition, available now. As the supply of the original books dwindled, the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society board knew changes had to be made.
The 8.5″ x 11″ books were originally perfect-bound (or paperback style binding) on the short dimension making them cumbersome to use as they were over 22″ wide when fully opened. This configuration also stressed the binding so much that most of the books’ spines would eventually break apart, releasing pages or groups of pages.
Even with these structural problems, the book has been in demand since it was introduced in 1986. The Historical Society at that time did such a good job of documenting existing cemeteries that their effort has become one of the most useful and respected resources ever produced by AHGS. The Society gets regular requests for an updated version or a second volume- a task that would probably exceed the original project as names and information for the past 27 years would have to be researched and added.
The original edition, edited by Lou Reed Landreth with “Computerization” by Lynn Lambert, and help from Elvira Crouse, Pearl Reeves and Marvie Shelor- and probably every able bodied volunteer they could muster- was printed by New River Graphics in 1988.
The new edition will be printed, “on-demand” as orders come in. In this way the society won’t have to initiate a traditional press run, or raise thousands of dollars in up-front production costs, or incur subsequent years of storage costs.
On-demand pricing is higher per unit, but it makes sense for a non-profit organization so that operating funds aren’t tied up in a long term inventory.
Spiral binding will allow field researchers to more easily keep their place whether they are at a single page or looking at a double page spread, without stress to the binding. Thicker pages should also add to the book’s longevity.
Pages from the first volume were individually scanned so the data is exactly as it appeared in the original.
Books are now available at the Sparta Store on Main Street in Sparta, North Carolina or here, online for $27 plus tax and shipping.
Alleghany Community Television, or ACTV, is now streaming content at ACTV.ME.
That’s right, those great, local shows you’ve been trying to catch will now be available for download to your own device at your convenience. ACTV has teamed with PegCentral and Imaging Specialists to present single episodes of participating programs on their site.
The new On Demand page will be available at www.actv.me – a new web address that should be easier to remember (and spell!) than the main site address, alleghanycommunitytelevision.com.
ACTV will soon begin uploading broadcast data to Skybest TV so that, as they standardize the schedule, viewers can plan for upcoming broadcasts. Metadata for individual episodes will be added including content, producers, show credits, run times, production dates, etc. and will be displayed online or on TV broadcast schedules.
Station Manager Charlie Scott – “The streaming ability we’ve gained with our latest equipment upgrade will allow our station to be accessed by anyone who isn’t able to see us on our affiliate stations. The systems that presently air ACTV content include Alleghany Cablevision, Skybest TV, Surry TV and WilkesTelecommunications. Those systems deliver ACTV to roughly 7000 households in the mountain region and cover a viewing area ranging from around Lewisville, North Carolina, almost to Johnson City, Tennessee.”
The Internet, however, reaches viewers outside the Triad to Tri-City area. Now, of course, ACTV content will be available to the entire planet. It’s hard to say what browsers in Britain will think about a Sparta Town Council Meeting, or how the Alleghany County Extension Office Cooking Show will affect a surfer in South Africa, but you can be sure these and other shows will have an audience.
Imaging Specialists is pleased to be working with Alleghany Community Television in their efforts to inform and entertain the public- from Piney Creek to Prague, from Turkey to Turkey Knob!
We’ve been covered up with banners and signs this Spring! And we want to keep it that way, so all through July 2012 banners are 15% off!
Below are pictures of some of our recent projects.
Saturday, be sure to attend the Lion Club‘s Sparta Fest at the renovated Community Auditorium and go to the Alleghany Farmers Market. Sunday, support Cornerstone Youth and Sparta Presbyterian Church. Hit Mis Arados for some great Mexican food. Meet the folks at downtown’s newest shops, Alleghany Golf Carts and Vintage Vincents. If you get lost, find the Courthouse and head a few feet west to the You-Are-Here sign the Sparta Revitalization Committee has posted.
Or, cross the street and come in the store. We’ll help you find your way. There’s a lot of activity in town. We appreciate the chance to be involved!
If you need a sign or banner for your next event, project, celebration, reunion, (whatever!) Call Claire at 336-372-3002 or email for pricing.
Banners
2-sided 34″ x 12′ 2012 Sparta Fest Banner for Sparta Lions Club
16″ x 10′ Sparta Presbyterian Church Banner
34″ x 10′ Banner for Alleghany Farmers Market
Farmers’ Market, Sparta Fest, and Sparta Presbyterian Church Banners, and Alleghany Quilt Guild Yard Signs
Yard Signs
Cornerstone Youth will “flamingo flock” your yard!
Flamingo Flock at A Cut Above (336-372-7007)
Printed Signage
Detail of downtown map
Downtown You-Are-Here Sign on North Main
Detail of churches drawn by ISI for downtown map.
Donation “Thermometer” for improvements at the Alleghany Community Auditorium
Corrugated plastic panels in cases at the auditorium entrance featuring donors, vendors and playbills.
Design for corrugated plastic donor panel.
Sponsor Panel
Window Decals
Door Vinyl at Mis Arados (336-372-1414)
Alleghany Golf Carts (336-657-1212)
Window Decals Sign at Vintage Vincents – 32 West Whitehead St. – Just a block from the Courthouse
The Trojan Playmakers’ production of Uncommonly Noble, a brand new play by Cheri Choate, was a successful fundraiser for the newly-renovated Alleghany Community Auditorium, April 28th. ISI helped with graphics including logo design, flyers, TV slides, programs and DVD art.
DVD art for Uncommonly Noble, performed in the new Alleghany Community Auditorium by the Trojan Playmakers on April 28, 2012. The production will be broadcast on Alleghany Community Television.
If you missed it, the show was video taped by Charlie Scott of Alleghany Community Television and will be broadcast later this month on Alleghany Cablevision and Skybest TV. Imaging Specialists is currently working on titles and credits for the TV production. DVDs will be available.
This production was a real home-grown project. The Playmakers collaborated with many area businesses and organizations to assist the Friends of the Auditorium in their efforts to rebuild and repurpose the old Sparta School Auditorium.
Making it all look easy was a cast and crew of hard working area elementary, middle and high school students who (we’re sure) will be involved with many more such productions.
Among those who donated time and effort were Director- Dyani VanHoose, Producer- Jeremy Halsey and Alleghany Community Theatre, Appachian Woodwright, James Maynard, local craftsman, Gracen Lucas, Mary Jane Watson from A Perfect Image Hair Design who helped with makeup, Chris Davis of Studio Redwood– sets and set design, Paula Joines of Wilkes County Theatre– wardrobe, Ashe Community Theatre, Shelley Williams- costumes, Bill Troiani- sound, Jim Williams- lights and the Production’s Sponsor, Alleghany County Schools.
Imaging Specialists is proud to be a part of this extraordinary production by Cheri and her Trojan Playmakers.
The newly, rebuilt stage at the Alleghany Community Auditorium with stair-step safety lightingAd slide for Alleghany Community Television.
Imaging Specialists is working with the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society on its award-winning series, Alleghany Memories. The series won a Paul Green Multimedia Award for the premier episode that featured Pauline Jolly and Mildred Torney- both former county librarians.
