‘Where the past and present meet’

Posted on May 22, 2019

Casting a jaunty smile to the camera, the well-dressed man shrugged off his jacket and attacked digging the hole for a new sign post with gusto.

His fellow club members stood aside and watched while the man carried the sign over to the site and sank it into the ground.

All looked on proudly once the installation of the the sign – which detailed the weekly meetings of the Perry Kiwanis Club – was complete.

When Joe Nola captured these moments on film back in the early 1940s, he likely could never have imagined that decades later his son, Mike, would share those same images with an appreciative audience thrilled to see Judge Butler, a long-gone community leader, brought back to life through the magic of digitized video.

Subscribe to our e-Edition and read the rest of the story. Already a subscriber? Click here to sign in.