PREFACE

     The History of Boyne Falls has been a thirteen-year project.  The inspiration came in the Fall of 1990, when the students of the Multimedia Technology class, a newly created class at Boyne Falls School, viewed portions of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) special on The Civil War.   The thirteen-hour documentary film demonstrated how the use of still photography combined with video technology can make history come to life, and stimulate interest and understanding.  They felt that they could create a documentary videotape that would bring to life our community’s history.  That first class began to gather information, photographs, and video taped interviews with our community’s older residents.  That process continued over the next two years.

     It is important to note that much of what is contained in this book has been gathered from written history.   A written history specific to our village is sparse, however, what written history we have found, we feel is accurate.  Other historical facts have been past down by word of mouth, and have been presented to the reader as informational, and may or may not be totally accurate.  We would like our readers to understand that we are not historians, but rather gathers of history.  We feel history is always being made, and hope that this web-site will have several updates, and that with each update, the information will become more thorough and enlightening.

     In 1973, The Bi-Centennial Book Committee, published The Pictorial History of the Boyne Valley Area.  In their preface, the committee stated that their intent was “...not to give a detailed history of the Boyne Valley Area, but instead, to refresh old memories and to enlighten present generations to the life and livelihood of our ancestors.”  We celebrate the committees endeavor, and re-iterate their desire to enlighten present as well as future generations to the history that is part of the fabric of our community.  We would like our endeavor to be a supplement to their publication, and therefore we have tried to include more historical information than pictures.

     As a final note, this has primarily been a student created publication.  Part of the educational value of this project was not just to gather and organize history, but to also create the web site itself.

William Aten, Editor and Technical Advisor