Over the past 45 years, this archive has been built with biscuit tins, love letters, shoeboxes of photos, courthouse microfilm, oral history tapes, and the sheer will to remember. Now, we’re digitizing, restoring, and publishing the collection as a living, creative studio of ancestral memory.
Your support funds:
Scanning and restoring fragile documents and photographs
Gravestone cleaning and cemetery fieldwork
Research fees, preservation tools, and archival materials
Podcast editing, transcript production, and oral storytelling
Platform costs and design work that help us keep this accessible
P.S. Early supporters are keeping this archive alive. If you'd like to help fund the work—scanning, restoring, storytelling, and researching—there are a few ways to subscribe:
🕰️ $5/month | 📜 $50/year | 🧡 $80/year as a Founding Member
And if you're sitting on a box of old family papers, postcards, photographs, or recordings—consider this a gentle nudge from the archive. I’m always on the lookout for overlooked treasures: your grandmother’s recipe cards, your uncle’s war letters, that mystery photo no one can identify.
Send the biscuit tin. Send the scanned PDF. Send the story no one’s written down yet.
Every bit helps. And every name is part of the legacy.
~ Will Forrester
The Great Greats
