S-h-h-h! Filming in progress!

     Imagine this...a living room setting...small couch, two comfortable chairs, ferns on side tables, a coffee table with tea cups and napkins.  That's one side of the room.  On the other side of the room are three cameras on tripods, a table full of electronic equipment, and electrical lines and cables covering the floor.  On the outside of the auditorium door, signs say, "No entrance."  "Filming in progress."
     Today Beau Sherman of SGGA, a South Georgia firm for regional distance learning and teleconferencing, is taping an upcoming show, "Home Front: Behind the Scene."
     Every Veterans' Day in November the country honors those who served and are still serving in the various branches of the Armed Forces.  This coming June 12th, the library is planning a special event to celebrate those at home, on the home front, who were and are working to help our service members involved in war. 
     The filming today covers the time of World War II and the Korean War.
     After an introduction by our director, Melody Jenkins, about the Home Front project, the cameras will swing to show a group of ladies sitting together and talking about what they were doing during the war.  They'll reflect on how people were encouraged to buy war bonds, how ration books were used, and how people saved everything from tin to food.  They'll talk about victory gardens, the work at Spence Air Field here in Moultrie, and how the war affected each of them.
     The ladies today (in the first of what we hope will be several tapings of community volunteers) are Ann Sherman, Ginger Horkan, Myrtle Lofton, and Elois Matthews.  They will share things they brought that remind them of the war times...things like newspaper clippings, those ration books, pictures, and letters.
     We scheduled the filming from 10 a.m. to noon.  But, as Beau said, if they end up talking longer than that, then he'll keep filming.  After all, how often do you get to document these memories of the home front during war time?  We already see how we are losing our World War II Veterans.  Every story we can capture to help our future generations understand their heritage, the better off we will be.
    And for that reason we are inviting you in the community to let us know your story.  What were you doing when World War II and the Korean War were going on?  How did you handle events here at home?  Do you have a story to tell?
     If so, please share those stories with us.  Your memories are precious and need to be documented.  All you have to do is call Melody Jenkins or Ann Glass, Chairman of the Veterans History Project, here at the library - 229-985-6540.  Or you can email us at mccls@mccls.org and let us know you have a story for us.
     We'd like to keep this project going and your contributions are vital to the Veterans History Project.  Please let us hear from you.