Project Nestor

Today, we need to tell our story just as Nestor did. We need to recall the way we were, and continually add onto this by archiving photos of our daily life. Now with the advent of digital photography, we have more photos than ever before. We can use this medium to do so much. We can use this to be an archive of photos and videos. The history of the eparchy is not solely photos of churches and liturgical events. Our daily life is something important, and must be recorded. Baptisms and weddings and other family events need to be recorded. For that matter camp photos and simply what we do, needs to be written down as well.
The record of the history of the Eparchy is the narration of the life, struggle and achievements of the people that make up our community of believers. We have a significant group of photographers in the Eparchy whose collections could be a serious start to create an archive of photos. I am envisioning that this project should be essentially a timeline of photographs and videos. There was a video of the life of the Ukrainian community made in the early 60s . Now this is something that is a piece of historical record. We are grateful that we have it. We should also have at least one person if not a group of people in every parish community who will collect photos at scan and send to a central archive.

There are several issues to be solved.
1. This is not a one person project.
2. People with different talents should be involved.
3. Information technology people, historians, and simply people with a vision for such a project. With current technology, IT people from around the Eparchy can take part.
4. The whole question of how to archive a significant collection of photos and videos so that they can be catalogued and retrieved will not be easy. Some things like specialised displays will be a part of the project. An example of this would be the history of Ukrainian schools located at the churches of the eparchy would necessitate the ability to easily retrieve all such photos and then somebody could decide which photos would be included in a display.

As soon as I find some interest in such a project, I would like to call an initial meeting of IT people, and others who could help put such a Eparchial project come to life. Such a meeting would be held in Early February.
We now have the technology to do what Nestor did in a much wider way. We have the ability to tell our story and the story of our parents to generations yet unborn.

Rt. Rev. Olexander Kenez