Next Thursday night, November 17th at 6:30, Jeremy Halsey will lead a class at the Alleghany County Public Library. The class will focus on Internet Radio, TV and movies, and how to purchase and download music legally.
There is no charge for the class, but registration is required. To register or for more information, contact the Library at 336-372-5573 or contact Jeremy through his site.
The next night, Friday the 18th, at 7, the Special Christmas Show at the Alleghany Jubilee will be filmed. Admission will be just $5.
Make plans to attend 1 (or both!) of these events!
Imaging Specialists has won a prestigious Garland P. Stout Publishers Award for excellence in the field of publishing from the North Carolina Society of Historians. This is the second Publishing Award for ISI. We received the first one in 2009 for our work in Alleghany County’s Sesquicentennial.
Regimental History of the 26th North Carolina. Cover Painting of Picketts charge by Edwin Forbes at US Library of Congress.
The Society also honored us with a Willie Parker Peace History Book Awardfor the book, Regimental History of the 26th NC Infantry, that we produced this summer, about Ashe County men in the Civil War. We gathered the text, photos, battle maps and battle summaries for the book; laid out and re-set the text; and optimized the photos for the book which is now available on-demand from Star Route Books and in our shop in Sparta.
We were also fortunate to receive a Robert Bruce Cooke Family History Book Award for our own, Family Photos – Eli Hamilton Halsey and Lillian Blanche Smith. This book is a photographic record of our own family, developed with the help of my Dad, Ronald Halsey’s, archive of negatives and our family’s photos. We scanned all images and assembled them into a chronological record of the lives of my Great-Grandparents and their family. The casebound book is printed in color and includes images from old prints, tintypes, 4×5 negatives, 35 mm and digital photography.
It is true that this “labor-of-love” will never have mass-appeal, but it was a real learning experience for us in the field of on-demand, self-publishing and we couldn’t be more proud of the result.
We also share in an award the Society presented to the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society. For the third year, AHGS has won a Joe M. McLaurin Newsletter Award, for the quarterly newsletter that we produce. The newsletter regularly includes text and historic photography from the county and this year, we’ve started adding our own photos of the Alleghany Historical Museum’s loans and acquisitions.
We are also pleased to have helped Lorene Sturgill, who received a Robert Bruce Cooke Family History Book Award for Descendants of William Black and Nancy Allison (We helped with photographic scanning, typesetting, page layout, design and production). This 296-page, casebound book containing genealogical records, photographs and stories is arguably our largest book project yet.
Of course, ISI has generated film for thousands of titles over the years, including many family histories and multi-volume sets, but this is the largest in which we’ve handled all aspects of the prepress work from design to production. The book is also available, on-demand from Star Route Books and the Sparta Store.
Congratulations Lorene, Kay, and Thelma for the recognition of your work and thanks for letting us be a part of your projects.
Lastly, we are happy to have played a part in the joint project of the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society and the Sparta Revitalization Committee‘s downtown Sparta walking tour, The Story of Sparta.
Window Decals designed and printed by ISI for the Sparta Revitalization Committee
We originally designed the SRC’s logo and were able to incorporate it into the vinyl, window decals for the self-guided tour. We are also pleased to have provided the cover photography for the Hospice’s Meals and Memories cookbook. Both projects won Paul Green Multimedia awards.
An attractive rack card is an important marketing tool in the mountain country. Most of the time, tourists come to an area like ours with an idea of something to do, but not everything they might want to do- they just know they’ll find something when they get here.
New Rack Card for Sam & Edna Miller Christmas Tree Farm Featuring Their Own Beautiful Scenic Views
That’s how a great brochure can help. You can’t be at the camp ground, the hotel, the Visitors Center and all the area restaurants at the same time- but your information can be.
A glossy, eye-catching rack card from Imaging Specialists can promote your enterprise and point potential customers to your site, like no other promotional item.
Think about it: A family is finishing breakfast and looking for something to fill in before the reunion this afternoon. At the card rack outside the restaurant they find your card featuring your own photos, contact information, maps and directions to your website.
Online they find PDFs to download outlining your policies and open times, or coupons, or recipes, or whatever informationyou’d like to communicate to a potential patron.
With just a little advance work, you are automatically attracting customers.
Send your latest rack card to your newsletter list. Remind loyal customers to check out the new info on your web site. In fact…
Point Everything to Your Webpage
Rack Card for the new Village Emporium in Sparta.
Use all static marketing, like billboards, pamphlets, brochures and rack cards to point to update-able advertising, like your site. That way, you only need to make updates to your policies, store hours, product list, etc. in one place.
Make even “standard” forms you use everyday, downloadable PDFs at your site. Rather than on your hard drive, store latest versions on your server, so that you don’t have to update multiple files in multiple locations.
Imaging Specialists is not just different in how we manage sites- compared to traditional hosting companies, we’re downright revolutionary!
Our standard hosting package includes up to an hour each month of text and image swaps. That means your changes and updates are easier (and less expensive) than ever before.
Do you need printed marketing materials or a new web presence?
Contact ISI today! 336-372-3002
Imaging Specialists and the Alleghany Jubilee are partnering up to produce a television show featuring the Old-Time, mountain music that the Jubilee has presented for almost 18 years.
Jubilee owners, Ernest and Agnes Joines are experts at producing their unique and entertaining shows, but have teamed with ISI and the young technicians of Alleghany Community Television to record and broadcast these initial episodes (hopefully, the first of many). The team plans to produce a Christmas Show to be taped November 18, 2011.
Charles Scott, ACTV’s station manager, is listed as Director in the credits, but he has trained his crew so well, the position is almost unnecessary. According to Charlie, “Daniel Caudill is a Junior at Alleghany High School, but he already knows more than I do about the system we use.”
Daniel is a quiet young man who sat in the back of the auditorium adjusting sound levels and switching input from the two cameras, manned- or make that operated by other AHS students (and graduates) Destiny Blevins, Amber Call and Natalie Marion. Throughout the evening- nearly 3 hours!- these kids impressed us with their knowledge and skill.
Alleghany Community Television will broadcast the show in two parts, Thursdays at 7PM, just before the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society’s new interview show, Alleghany Memories.
DVDs of the entire show (both parts), as well as Alleghany Memories, will be available at The Sparta Store for $20.
Ernest in 1961, on I've Got a Secret
Ernest Joines is a life-long, mountain musician and is listed on the Blue Ridge Heritage website. Ernest was featured on Gary Moore’s, I’ve got a Secret in 1961. His secret? He designed and operated a one man band.
Agnes Joines is on the town council and currently serves as Mayor pro tem of the town of Sparta. She also Chairman of the local Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission (BROC) and has organized and run an annual Hillbilly Variety Show for several years to raise money for the Alleghany Planning Committee, BROC’s local arm, which helps local citizens with winter heating bills and weatherization projects. They also help with the local Head Start and have a home garden seed distribution program.
Imaging Specialists helped with post production and graphics, generating opening and closing credits. ACTV is currently available in approximately 4500 households in the region across Alleghany Cablevision and Skybest Television.
Interested in sponsoring future episodes of the Jubilee? Contact Agnes at the Jubilee or Claire at: info@imagingspecialists.net
The show is a mixture of music and what Ernest and Agnes call “Hillbilly Humor” and features local talent including:Hillbilly Wes, as emcee and Agnes Joines & Jeff Halsey, hosts.
DVDs will be available at the Jubilee or the Sparta Store on Main Street in Sparta or online at www.spartastore.com
The Rise & Shine Band
Billy Dancy, banjo
Charlie Edwards, guitar
Ernest Joines, mandolin
Charlie Kinzer, lead guitar
Wade Petty, fiddle
Kermit Pruitt, bass
Buster Royal, guest banjo
Special guests Joe Irwin
Kermit Pruitt
Gary Joines
The Jubilee Line Dancers Eve Blevins
Mary Jane Ciraco
Eula Raye Cook
Helen Crouse
Chloe Dollinger
Linda Edwards
Gloria Graham
Jerrie Howell
Jackie Maines
Grace Paisley
Joyce Pruitt
Sherry Smith
Carolyn Young
2010 Possum Queen Phoebe Brown & past honoree, Mary Pennington
The Possum Creek Boys David Joines
Ernest Joines
Gary Joines
Ryan Lane
The show was sponsored by Alleghany Jubilee
Imaging Specialists
Thirty-One
Harold T. Long
Some of the summer 2011 signage from Imaging Specialists.
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Imaging Specialists is your best value for summer signage.
ISI’s colorful, cut-vinyl banners and corrugated signs are an attractive, affordable, and durable way for you to get noticed!
You’ve worked hard to build your business. You trust professionals to help with accounting, banking, computer networking- even lawn care. Why leave your public image in the hands of anyone less than experts?
We can build a design from your idea or sketch- no matter how rough. We learned a long time ago that nothing matters but our customer’s satisfaction.
Colorful, corrugated plastic Quilt Guild signs for their Annual Quilt Show in July
What does your logo look like? Whether you need a resizable vector graphic for a van wrap, a cmyk version for print, jpgs for your newsletter or pms colors for a t-shirt design- whatever your need- ISI can give you the optimal color, resolution or format for your application.
Banners for the Alleghany Historical - Genealogical Society booth at the 2011 Blue Ridge Craft Fair
In today’s economy, advertising is essential, if only to keep your name in front of potential customers. With over 23 years of experience in graphic arts, ISI can give your marketing the professional look it deserves.
