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Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced that the state of Missouri has been awarded 65,000 dollars to help its communities preserve historic documents. KSMU’s Katie Easley talked with a spokeswoman from the secretary’s office about this grant and how southwest Missouri could benefit from it.
Missouri was awarded this 65,000 grant from the National Historical Publications of Records Commission. That’s a federally funded agency that works to preserve important documents and records nationwide.
“This grant is going to be distributed to local records repositories all across the state to help local communities preserve their own documents and photographs,” says Egerdal.
That’s Laura Egerdal, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s office. She says the money will be distributed to places like museums, libraries, and universities that care for documents of significant historical value. No decisions have been so far on where the money is going.
“Hopefully some communities and historic societies in southwest Missouri will contact our office and apply for some of this money so it can be used in your local community,” says Egerdal.
For information on applying for some of this grant money, you can call the state archives office at 573-751-4303.
For KSMU News, I’m Katie Easley.
