Greene County Historical & Genealogical Society
Newsletter
110 N. Pruett St., P.O. Box 121, Paragould, Arkansas 72451
web site: greenecountyargen.com
email: gchgs@sbcglobal.net 870-240-8944
Volume 21 Issue 5 May, 2008
GCHGS Family membership is $25.00, Corporate membership is $40.00. Members get four quarterly journals plus regular newsletters. Contact the Research Center at the above telephone number for further information.
Research hours are 9:00 a.m.-4:00p.m. Mon. thru Sat. closed 12 noon to 1 p.m.
The Research Center will close for bad weather when the Paragould School District closes.
The Board meetings are the 4th Mon. of each month at 4 p.m. at the Research Center.
All Program and Board meetings are open to the public.
MAY PROGRAM MEETING
Judy Downs from Randolph County, a seasoned living historian, will be the guest speaker for
our May Program Meeting on Thursday, May 10, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church,
located at the corner of 7th Street and West Main. She will speak about “Women’s Role in the Civil War”. She is a member of the Northeast Arkansas Living Historian Group.
APRIL PROGRAM MEETING
Mr. John Kennett presented “Digitizing Photographs” at our April Monthly Program Meeting.
John was the owner of Child Art Studio for several years. John developed an interest in
photography at an early age; his hobby later turned into a successful profession. We were able to glean a lot of information from his extensive knowledge of photography.
John began the program with advice on storing photographs in a folder on your hard drive,
defragging your hard drive at least once monthly, naming images and renaming images.
Then, Mr. Kennett gave a detailed explanation on using the Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.
Among items covered were cropping, burning DVD/CDs, using an external hard drive, photo
browser, healing tool and cloning tool.
There was a question and answer session following the meeting.
BIG PICTURE NEWSPAPER
We have Big Picture Newspaper on microfilm available for your previewing at the Research
Center if you are interested. The dates of the microfilm are August 13, 1948 thru February 5, 1961