History and Heritage Preservation
Projects and Resources
Provided By
Perry Sprawls
A major interest and
effort of Perry Sprawls is the preservation and publication of records
and representations of our past.. He works with families, organizations,
and institutions to preserve documents, images, and especially memories
that are the records of their History and Heritage.
A major emphasis is on taking action now before those
items, especially memories, are lost forever. His personal projects
range from Barnwell County, South Carolina, where he was born and
lived as a youth to many countries of the World concentrating on
the history of Medical Physics and Radiology, which is his profession.
An introduction and links to some specific projects are
below.
Records of events
associated with a person's life, including birth, marriage, military
service,
places of residency, and death are produced and generally preserved by
the various government agencies. As valuable as these might be to future
generations interested in learning about family members or their
ancestors, they do not provide a real representation of the many
aspects of a person's life that are of value, like memories acquired by
personally knowing and living along with them. It is these
valuable representations of a person's life that are not preserved as
official records that are generally lost, destroyed, or forgotten as
time goes on.
This specific project is encouraging and
helping people to "get with it now" and find, organize, and
preserve records (documents, pictures, memories ) of family members,
especially the recently deceased. A guide to a four step process
encouraging generations to work together is provided on this website.
http://www.sprawls.org/heritage/
The Barnwell County Virtual Museum
As the Founder and
Coordinating Director of the Barnwell County Virtual Museum, Perry
Sprawls provided a project to both preserve and make available to all,
anywhere in the world, repres
entations
of the rich history of Barnwell County, SC and its residents over the
many generations. This includes links to histories of the
individual towns and communities.
A major purpose of the project is providing websites, orvirtual components, for the physical museums within the county.
Direct links to several are provided below.
The Museum can be visited and explored through
this website.
https://www.bcvm.org/
The Williston Museum
Williston, South Carolina is Perry's hometown
and of special interest for preserving its history. A significant
part comes from his personal experiences and memories. In addition
to producing the museum
website he created several physical exhibits,
These are for the early telephone and telegraph systems that were used
up until the 1950s.
The Museum can be visited through the website,
https://www.bcvm.org/williston/museum/index.htm
At the Clemson University Edisto Research and Education Center
for the Agricultural Heritage Center.A special purpose of the website is to introduce and invite visitors to the Heritage Center. For the younger generations and students it provides a valuable lesson in our rural heritage that is not included in school classrooms.
To visit the farm of our past click on: https://www.bcvm.org/agricultureheritage/
Virtual Dunbarton
most of the cemeteries and graves were removed from the Site. The
Sprawls Farm was just outside of the confiscated area and was not
affected but the local Pleasant Hill Baptist Church and the farms and
homes of relatives and friends had to be abandoned or moved.
Dunbarton was one of the small towns that was eliminated. Perry conceived and developed Virtual Dunbarton, a website with many representations of the town of Dunbarton and the local community. He organized a group of former residents who worked for several years developing content for the website.
Perhaps the most significant is a list or directory of the families who were re-located and where they moved to. Families had the opportunity to move their homes to the surrounding communities. Perry photographed many of these and they are included on the website.
Dunbarton lives on and can be visited at: https://www.bcvm.org/Dunbarton/ .
The Water Powered Mills and Grinding Corn It was not just a place; it is the people.
The Mitchell General Store in Williston
By Perry Sprawls, Jr. on behalf of Eight Generations
Published 4th Quarter 2018
Exhibits Produced by Perry Sprawls
https://museum.aapm.org/exhibit/06-mammography/
https://museum.aapm.org/exhibit/01-roentgen-discovery-and-research/
THE MANY STEPS AND EVOLUTION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
TECHNOLOGY AND IMAGING METHODS,
THE QUEST FOR ENHANCED VISIBILITY The First Fifty Years
P. Sprawls. MEDICAL
PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019
http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2020-SI-04/MPI-2020-SI-04-p351.pdf
THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN MAMMOGRAPHY A
CONTINUING QUEST FOR VISIBILITY
P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS
INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019
http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2019-SI-02/MPI-2019-SI-02-p141.pdf
FILM-SCREEN RADIOGRAPHY RECEPTOR DEVELOPMENT A HISTORICAL
PERSPECTIVE
P. Sprawls. MEDICAL
PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.7, No.3, 2019
http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2018-SI-01/MPI-2018-SI-01-p56.pdf
ROENTGEN’S INVESTIGATION DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF X-RADIATION
P. Sprawls. MEDICAL PHYSICS INTERNATIONAL Journal, vol.2, No.2, 2014
http://www.mpijournal.org/pdf/2014-02/MPI-2014-02-p435.pdf
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