The PADUCAH RAILROAD MUSEUM PRESENTATION went very well. With about 20-25 members of their board in attendance, Pete's discussion of his experience of growing up in yesteryear's busting railroad town of Fulton, being hired by the railroad and working as Fulton's first African American Engineer and Station Master served as a great authenticating lead -in for the presentation of the Oral History Interview results and conclusions. A lively Q/A followed and we were invited to curate an African American Rail Workers' exhibit for their museum. I have contacted Corine Harber, the author of the 1998 publication Making Tracks from the Past to the Present: (Paducah) Blacks and the Railroad System about meeting with the museum next month. Additionally they offered us an extra "Colored Waiting Room" sign from their archives for the Twin Cities Museum in Fulton.
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