Bland County Historical Archives

Reviewed By: Jim Pearson

REVIEW

Students at the Rock Gap High School in Rock Gap Virginia have developed this site. It is part of a program sponsored by the Virginia Center for the Humanities. I gather from the website and some of the pictures that students have actully conducted interviews with local people and are transcriping them to place on the website. The site is also part of the Appalachian Rural Educational Network a project sponsored by the University of Kentucky. It has not been updated since July 24, 2002. I was not able to locate an address for the organization. I did however; find a link that allows you to e-mail a J. Dodson. The site did not contain any information regarding who J. Dodson is. You will find links on the homepage to the organizations that the project is affiliated with. The nature of the information presented is transcripts of the oral interviews conducted by the students. I assume the printed transcripts are housed in the actual Bland County Archives building. Overall an attractive website that is impressive given the fact that it is the work of high school students. Their attention to detail is noticable in the exhaustive transcripts provided. The links were easily navigated and most were actually working. I would have liked some sort of authority noted, as it would enhance the quality of the work.