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The
Albany High Times
... how
it began ... and where it's going ...
...
2016 and proudly celebrating
14 years !!!
The
ALBANY HIGH TIMES
~ first named and posted: August 16, 2002
Original AHS website (temporary) ~
first posted: June 4, 2002
Tribe
Notes ...
from Beverly
Since August 16, 2002
In April 2002,
Charlie Stewart ('55) mailed an article on "Skywater" to
me (the wonderful book about Radium Springs written by Morgan Murphy and
Lamar Clifton). It mentioned that the City of Albany
was considering "doing away" with the Casino and Pavillion.
Steam came out of my head, my eyes, my ears ... my nose. I
wondered if other Indians had seen this article. I decided to type the article and
email it to AHS students whose
email addresses I had collected. Suddenly I began to
receive an email outcry, and not only that ... they included their "memories of Radium" representing
different class years. And they kept come ... and I decided I
couldn't keep those memories to myself and not share; so I began to
compile them, emailing them back to the ever-increasing email base.
Then, something else happened ... those people forwarded to other
Indians from other classes
and THEY
began to share memories of Radium, AHS and Teachers - and as memories grew, so
did the email base. The problem was ... keeping up with the memories
via email ... to whom I had sent,
who was new and needed all of them, etc., became quite a job; so as I
had just created a personal website for myself, I decided to
create a few AHS WebPages
inside my personal website.
That's
when an incredible thing began to happen ... the WebPages began to reconnect
and bond students who had lost track of one another over the years ...
and believe it or not, there was suddenly a whole lot of lovin'
goin' on!!! Moreover, folks who were not necessarily friends in high
school made new friends. And it just kept on growing … so much so
that I decided to convert the webpages within my personal website to a completely
independent website for AHS … and named it ...
THE ALBANY HIGH TIMES, which
I hoped would tell of
"times" past, present, and future of our wonderful TRIBE!
It HAS ... thanks to the volumes of emails and information
each month sent by members of a GREAT TRIBE!!!
So here we are … having fun looking
back … and eagerly anticipating looking forward. Now,
in addition to the MAIN Albany High Times website, because even
that website became too large, so sub-websites
were created ... like Radium Springs (www.radiumsprings.albanyhightimes.com),
and Archives of "News & Clues" issues.
NOTE: the N&C's home page is down but the following will take
you to the page that lists the different years (http://newsandclues.albanyhightimes.com/contents.htm).
Total pages
from the three sections number over 400 pages, and we
are heading
toward 130,000 hits! There are approximately 2,000 email addresses
grouped in classes from
1933 to 2006!
There is also a Search
Engine at
http://www.albanyhightimes.com/search_engine.htm.
It's been a great journey ... and we continue to look for ways to
expand and/or improve this site as we add new subject pages – perhaps
you or your class would have an interest in participating. Please send
information or photos (in jpeg format) to:
albanyhightimes@aol.com.
My greatest fear
is that the outdated web program I use will someday become incompatible
with the new fangled servers used by my "host" company ... and frankly
who can blame them for striving to have "the best" available for their
customers. Problems have already cropped up; but I've been able to
work around them to some degree - but every month my program misbehaves
on their servers, so I try to find workarounds ... and sometimes I
can't. Soooooo ... one day my fear is ... my program will stop
limping along and just quit. I want to keep "the original look"
and the thought of recreating over 400 web pages on another program ...
frankly blows my mind! Yet to think of all the years of making
this website what it is ... as the King of Siam would say ... "Iz a
puzzlement"!!!
To
our
TIMES
together ~ ~ ~
Beverly Smith
Herrington
AHS
Class of 1955
Creator and Webmaster
FYI: To be honest,
this website program is ancient and therefore does not allow anything to
be added or changed except from this computer.
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