Title:
Teaming to Preserve
Accession#:
2002.01.02
Pubication Date:
20 September 2000
Call#:
AC—0096
Object ID:
AC—0096
Collection:
KSHS Articles and Clippings
Additional Notes & Full Text:
Foundation partners with FGCU to archive group's collection of documents
By REBECCA WAKEFIELD Staff Writer
The Utopian ideals of a small community established in Estero in the late 1800s could someday be floating about in cyberspace, thanks to a new partnership between the Koreshan Unity
Foundation and Florida Gulf Coast University. The two groups have invested $5,000 each to pay for a history professor and his students to archive the extensive collection of Koreshan documents that exist in the foundation library. Charles Dauray, president of the Koreshan Unity Foundation, said the partnership formed out of a mutual interest in preserving the thousands of letters, photographs and other documents collected by the Koreshan society over several
decades. "We will be able to work with the university and library and professional staff to collect, collate and review these archives, while we loan them to the university ultimately for them to display," he said. "It gives the university a sense of the roots of the community." Irvin Solomon, who directs the history program at FGCU, has been documenting Koreshan history for the last eight years as an unpaid scholar. This partnership will give a more formal direction to the work.
FGCU provost Brad Bartel said historians will be using modern methods to preserve the documents and make them available to more people. The letters and photographs could be scanned and turned into an archival database. "This is obviously a great resource for research for Dr. Solomon and our students," he said. People at both the school and the foundation say the work is only the beginning Of a partnership that could blossom in unexpected directions.
Bartel, who said he is a historical archeologist by trade, plans to talk with the foundation members next week. He's interested in whether there might be a possibility of excavating some of the foundations of Koreshan buildings to add to the developing picture of what their lives were like. Dauray said the collection at the Koreshan Unity is "extraordinary". "It's an extra important
collection and it's quite thorough," he said. "Rather than have the foundation bury this information proprietarily, far better to make it available for study." Dauray envisions the work being put on the Internet in a few years, as well as placed in the FGCU library. "They say the long walk begins with the first step," he said. "This is the first step. I'm excited." The Koreshan society was founded in the 1890s by Dr. Cyrus Teed, a medical doctor of Baptist ancestry from New York State, who was a religious and social reformer. On land now at the crossing of U.S.
41 and Corkscrew Road, a group of idealistic pioneers built an enclave famous for its art, literature and music as well as some of its more peculiar ideas about religion and the nature of the universe.
By REBECCA WAKEFIELD Staff Writer
The Utopian ideals of a small community established in Estero in the late 1800s could someday be floating about in cyberspace, thanks to a new partnership between the Koreshan Unity
Foundation and Florida Gulf Coast University. The two groups have invested $5,000 each to pay for a history professor and his students to archive the extensive collection of Koreshan documents that exist in the foundation library. Charles Dauray, president of the Koreshan Unity Foundation, said the partnership formed out of a mutual interest in preserving the thousands of letters, photographs and other documents collected by the Koreshan society over several
decades. "We will be able to work with the university and library and professional staff to collect, collate and review these archives, while we loan them to the university ultimately for them to display," he said. "It gives the university a sense of the roots of the community." Irvin Solomon, who directs the history program at FGCU, has been documenting Koreshan history for the last eight years as an unpaid scholar. This partnership will give a more formal direction to the work.
FGCU provost Brad Bartel said historians will be using modern methods to preserve the documents and make them available to more people. The letters and photographs could be scanned and turned into an archival database. "This is obviously a great resource for research for Dr. Solomon and our students," he said. People at both the school and the foundation say the work is only the beginning Of a partnership that could blossom in unexpected directions.
Bartel, who said he is a historical archeologist by trade, plans to talk with the foundation members next week. He's interested in whether there might be a possibility of excavating some of the foundations of Koreshan buildings to add to the developing picture of what their lives were like. Dauray said the collection at the Koreshan Unity is "extraordinary". "It's an extra important
collection and it's quite thorough," he said. "Rather than have the foundation bury this information proprietarily, far better to make it available for study." Dauray envisions the work being put on the Internet in a few years, as well as placed in the FGCU library. "They say the long walk begins with the first step," he said. "This is the first step. I'm excited." The Koreshan society was founded in the 1890s by Dr. Cyrus Teed, a medical doctor of Baptist ancestry from New York State, who was a religious and social reformer. On land now at the crossing of U.S.
41 and Corkscrew Road, a group of idealistic pioneers built an enclave famous for its art, literature and music as well as some of its more peculiar ideas about religion and the nature of the universe.
Author:
Wakefield, Rebecca
Summary:
Story about the agreement between Chales Dauray and Prof. Irvin Solomon of FGCU to catalog and maintain the archives at FGCU. See Notes or Custom section for a full text of the article.
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Notes:
Foundation partners with FGCU to archive group's collection of documents
By REBECCA WAKEFIELD Staff Writer
The Utopian ideals of a small community established in Estero in the late 1800s could someday be floating about in cyberspace, thanks to a new partnership between the Koreshan Unity
Foundation and Florida Gulf Coast University. The two groups have invested $5,000 each to pay for a history professor and his students to archive the extensive collection of Koreshan documents that exist in the foundation library. Charles Dauray, president of the Koreshan Unity Foundation, said the partnership formed out of a mutual interest in preserving the thousands of letters, photographs and other documents collected by the Koreshan society over several
decades. "We will be able to work with the university and library and professional staff to collect, collate and review these archives, while we loan them to the university ultimately for them to display," he said. "It gives the university a sense of the roots of the community." Irvin Solomon, who directs the history program at FGCU, has been documenting Koreshan history for the last eight years as an unpaid scholar. This partnership will give a more formal direction to the work.
FGCU provost Brad Bartel said historians will be using modern methods to preserve the documents and make them available to more people. The letters and photographs could be scanned and turned into an archival database. "This is obviously a great resource for research for Dr. Solomon and our students," he said. People at both the school and the foundation say the work is only the beginning Of a partnership that could blossom in unexpected directions.
Bartel, who said he is a historical archeologist by trade, plans to talk with the foundation members next week. He's interested in whether there might be a possibility of excavating some of the foundations of Koreshan buildings to add to the developing picture of what their lives were like. Dauray said the collection at the Koreshan Unity is "extraordinary". "It's an extra important
collection and it's quite thorough," he said. "Rather than have the foundation bury this information proprietarily, far better to make it available for study." Dauray envisions the work being put on the Internet in a few years, as well as placed in the FGCU library. "They say the long walk begins with the first step," he said. "This is the first step. I'm excited." The Koreshan society was founded in the 1890s by Dr. Cyrus Teed, a medical doctor of Baptist ancestry from New York State, who was a religious and social reformer. On land now at the crossing of U.S.
41 and Corkscrew Road, a group of idealistic pioneers built an enclave famous for its art, literature and music as well as some of its more peculiar ideas about religion and the nature of the universe.
By REBECCA WAKEFIELD Staff Writer
The Utopian ideals of a small community established in Estero in the late 1800s could someday be floating about in cyberspace, thanks to a new partnership between the Koreshan Unity
Foundation and Florida Gulf Coast University. The two groups have invested $5,000 each to pay for a history professor and his students to archive the extensive collection of Koreshan documents that exist in the foundation library. Charles Dauray, president of the Koreshan Unity Foundation, said the partnership formed out of a mutual interest in preserving the thousands of letters, photographs and other documents collected by the Koreshan society over several
decades. "We will be able to work with the university and library and professional staff to collect, collate and review these archives, while we loan them to the university ultimately for them to display," he said. "It gives the university a sense of the roots of the community." Irvin Solomon, who directs the history program at FGCU, has been documenting Koreshan history for the last eight years as an unpaid scholar. This partnership will give a more formal direction to the work.
FGCU provost Brad Bartel said historians will be using modern methods to preserve the documents and make them available to more people. The letters and photographs could be scanned and turned into an archival database. "This is obviously a great resource for research for Dr. Solomon and our students," he said. People at both the school and the foundation say the work is only the beginning Of a partnership that could blossom in unexpected directions.
Bartel, who said he is a historical archeologist by trade, plans to talk with the foundation members next week. He's interested in whether there might be a possibility of excavating some of the foundations of Koreshan buildings to add to the developing picture of what their lives were like. Dauray said the collection at the Koreshan Unity is "extraordinary". "It's an extra important
collection and it's quite thorough," he said. "Rather than have the foundation bury this information proprietarily, far better to make it available for study." Dauray envisions the work being put on the Internet in a few years, as well as placed in the FGCU library. "They say the long walk begins with the first step," he said. "This is the first step. I'm excited." The Koreshan society was founded in the 1890s by Dr. Cyrus Teed, a medical doctor of Baptist ancestry from New York State, who was a religious and social reformer. On land now at the crossing of U.S.
41 and Corkscrew Road, a group of idealistic pioneers built an enclave famous for its art, literature and music as well as some of its more peculiar ideas about religion and the nature of the universe.
Object Name:
Newspaper
Subcategory:
Documentary Artifact
Phys Desc:
1 p.
Publisher:
Fort Myers News Press, Vol—42, No—74
Publication Place:
Fort Myers, Florida
Subjects:
Koreshan Unity
Archives
FGCU
Florida Gulf Coast University
Archives
FGCU
Florida Gulf Coast University
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