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Posted on October 7, 2013

Good Neighbors Choose Local

ISI is working with the Chamber of Commerce & Sparta Revitalization Committee on their shop local campaign. We’re volunteering several services – designing the logo, putting together a television ad for ACTV, making a facebook page that others in the Chamber and on the Committee can update.

The slogan of the campaign is “Good Neighbors Choose Local.” This isn’t just about shopping local or supporting your friends who own stores downtown (even though they’re pretty great folks).

“Choosing Local” is about building your community, in all the ways. It’s about choosing to be involved. In volunteering, in churches, in clubs, in recreation. Obviously, it would be wonderful if we had a very strong local economy. But it’s just as important to have strong local relationships.

We’re very proud to be associated with this campaign.

Posted on August 15, 2013

Four Brothers in Bristol Herald Courier

We recently met up with Joe Tennis of the Bristol Herald Courier, who shared info on Four Brothers in Gray. Thanks, Joe!

Posted on July 25, 2013

Four Brothers in the Record

Four Brothers in Gray was featured in The Record of Wilkes.

Thanks to Jerry Lankford and Ken Welborn for sharing our news! Check it out, y’all.

Posted on November 1, 2012 November 1, 2012

Ernest Joines on I’ve Got a Secret

Our friend Ernest, from the Alleghany Jubilee, was on the May 17, 1961 episode of I’ve Got a Secret. Check it out (and hear him play) below:

Awesome! Here are a couple more of Ernest and Agnes’ songs:

Brown Eyes And Brown Hair:

Falling In Love Again:

Posted on October 23, 2012 October 23, 2012

ISI Receives Awards from NCSH

If you came to the release party for Paths & Passages -Navigating the Blue Ridge and Stratford Oaks Tales, The Tale of Gretchen, you’ve heard our latest news. If you weren’t able to attend, here it is:

Saturday, the 20th, we traveled to Mooresville, NC for the annual awards banquet of the North Carolina Society of Historians. Imaging Specialists was well represented this year: Claire Halsey was awarded a Paul Jehu Barringer, Jr. & Sr. Award of Excellence for her genealogy work and Jeff Halsey was named the NCSH Historian of the Year!

ISI also received a Willie Parker Peace History Book Award for the latest book in our history series, Regimental History of the 61st NC Infantry (published last fall) about Alleghany County men in the Civil War. We gathered 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.

Suzanne Mellow Irwin and Zach Hamm, with their families, also attended the meeting and won awards for the first in their series of children’s books, The Stratford Oaks Tales. Zach received a Paul Green Multimedia Award for his artwork and Suzanne a Clark Cox Historical Fiction Award for the story.

A couple of projects of the Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society also won awards. We were proud to accept awards for the newsletter- our fourth!- Joe M. McLaurin Newsletter Award and the Alleghany Historical Museum, which won an Evelina D. Miller Museum Award.

DSCN7412 — Elizabeth Bray Sherrill, President NCSH and Jeff Halsey NCSH 2012 Historian of the Year

Imaging Specialists publishes the AHGS quarterly newsletters. We also produce the books in the Stratford Oaks series.

We plan to submit several projects and nominate others others in our community for consideration in 2013.

If you know of other projects you think deserve recognition, nomination forms are located on the NCSH site.

Imaging Specialists and the Halsey family is proud to have accepted these honors from the North Carolina Society of Historians. We sincerely appreciate the consideration of President Elizabeth Sherrill, the NCSH Board and the Judges. And we appreciate the help and support of the Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society.