Some modern day technology, designed to help with research on our area’s Veterans, is set to come to the Vermilion County War Museum. Museum board member Tara Auter explained the vision for this to Laura Williams on 1490 WDAN’s Community Connection program.
AUDIO: The War Museum is a beautiful building, but we want to bring in technology and we want to take it into the next century, so to speak. And seeing names moving; and then we also want to bring it to life; we want to show pictures, we want to make videos.
Board member Alan Woodrum will be the source behind a lot of these technological improvements. He says the idea is to have a research kiosk for the public, especially when it comes to looking up family members who served.
AUDIO: Doing this here in Danville is close to home, and close to my heart. Presenting history and showing people that history is not just reading in a book, it’s PEOPLE.
Also joining us on Community Connection was County Board member Jerry Hawker. He says his father served in Korea, and his great-great grandfather fought in the Civil War; but it was another relative that really got him excited about the museum.
AUDIO: And my granddaughter Suzanne, she’s very interested in this kind of thing, and fell in love with the War Museum. Actually she’s the one that sparked my interest in the War Museum, and got involved in this project.
Vermilion County War Museum president Jim Kouzmanoff told us later on that; yes indeed, this new research kiosk will be a big step forward.
AUDIO: This is going to be the place to go because we’re going to be consolidating data from many, many, many sources; and make it a whole lot easier for people to do research on Grandpa, or whomever.
Kouzmanoff says there is no timetable on completing the project at this time.
The hear Laura Williams’ entire program on the Vermilion County War Museum, please go to https://vermilioncountyfirst.com/the-community-connection/
