Grey Roots Lecture Series – Living Histories: Grey County
Presenter: Richard J. Thomas
Photographs are one of the few ways we have to see into the past. What were people like, how did they dress, what did our communities look like in their earliest times? How have they changed? Families often don’t know what to do with these historical documents, and the unfortunate truth is, the best source we will have for historical photographs will someday be local landfill sites. Join author and historian Richard J. Thomas for an illustrated talk about the Living Histories: Grey Countyexhibition and other historical projects he has worked on.
About the presenter:
Richard Thomas is a broadcaster and journalist who moved to Owen Sound in 1986. He has been running his own business, Richard Thomas Communications since 1999, producing corporate and promotional videos, writing newsletters and corporate communications and more recently has devoted his time to digitizing home movies, videos, slides and photos.
Richard has served 24 years on the Owen Sound and North Grey Union Public Library Board, many of those as board chair. He was an Owen Sound city councillor for 8 years. He began writing in 1990, and has written more than twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction. The first of his eight D.B. Murphy novels, Gas Head Willy, was shortlisted by the Crime Writers’ of Canada for the best first novel of 1996. Richard has been recognized by the Ontario Historical Society, Grey County Historical Society and the City of Owen Sound for his contributions to local history.