The Historian's Role

Knowledge is born of experience Experience recorded is history Accumulatively these records unveil Answers to part of life's mystery.

Heritage is fed by these records And pride in the past kept alive To give direction to those who may follow and engender the will to survive.

If the future is to be expanded The foundation on which it is laid Must be the great truths of history If real progress is to be made.

And so we salute the historians Who document the rise and the fall And the events of peoples and nations To enrich the lives of us all.

Written and dedicated to the members of the wheeling Historical Society on August 26, 1967, by Glenn Oaks

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