This article appeared in the Volume 5, Issue 1 Spring/Summer 2024 issue of the Appalachian Curator. Click here to view a PDF of the full issue. By Kathleen Ingoldsby Old Church Gallery, Ltd., a cultural arts museum organized in 1978, and its Floyd Story Center oral history program, dating to 1998, is rooted in community and creative arts traditions. Between the two disciplines, our non-profit has amassed a permanent collection of about 500 cultural objects and 100 oral history interviews. With the help of Radford University Sociology students, we organized, formatted, and renamed digital files until reaching a uniform model, one that works for our small, all-volunteer, non-profit organization. Our…
