Imagining Collinsville

Thursday, May 21, 2009
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Collinsville Community Center

We will read and discuss excerpts from the following:
Charles Hall's World War II Diary
Accounts of the 1900 fire
Cherokee Myths

Free copies of the readings are available at the
Collinsville Public Library or
by clicking on the titles above.

Co-sponsored by the Collinsville Public Library,
the Collinsville Historical Association,
the Times-Journal, the Caroline Marshal Draughon
Center for the Arts & Humanities
in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University,
and the David Mathews Center for Civic Life.

Join us for a public discussion of the past
as we imagine the future.

Refreshments will be served.

For more information, call 256-524-2323.

" History cannot give us a program for the future,
but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves,
and of our common humanity, so that
we can better face the future."
Robert Penn Warren

ANNUAL MEETING

APRIL 26, 2009

The Collinsville Historical Association's Annual Meeting
will take place on Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 2:30 P.M.
at the Collinsville Community Center.

Scheduled to speak are Senator Lowell Baron, Brant Craig and John Baker.
The Sand Rock FFA String Band will perform and refreshments will be served.
CHA's museum and offices will be open for everyone to see.

Come see what has been done and is being done to preserve
Collinsville's history, and hear about some exciting projects CHA will be
working on in the very near future!

Gem of the Valley

Cookbooks

Are Here!

And the response has been tremendous!

$12.00 each

These cookbooks are packed with over 300 recipes, food facts, charts, old pictures

and local history.

They are on sale now at the following locations:

A Time 2 Sew

Cook's Barber Shop

W. V. Graves & Co.

Hurry! Get them while they last!

2006 Annual CHA Meeting

Collinsville Historical Association President, Martha Barksdale, opens the Annual Meeting, which was hosted by the Collinsville Presbyterian Church on April 9, 2006. After the meeting refreshements were served at Nessa's Catering and Private Parties.

Each year CHA presents awards and certificates to groups and individuals who have done the most during the prior year to promote and support the preservation of our town and its history.

Certificates were awarded to:

Collinsville Presbyterian Church
Mary Rhinehart

The Joyful Noise Youth Praise Band
Pat Hildebrand

Honorary Membership was awarded to

Congressman Robert Aderholt

by CHA President Martha Barksdale.

CHA Secretary, Sharon Dutton, presents the

The Civic/Business/Governmental Agency Award to:

The Collinsville Library.

A plant and Recognition of Service Certificate

was awarded to Faye Ryan.

The Restoration Project Award went to:
Nessa’s Catering & Private Parties

and Sister Sams & Moore

The Individual Award for Preservationist of the Year went to:
Charles Moore for his re-creation of the town in miniature.

Some of his buildings are pictured below.