From what we understand, The Cherry Grove Archives Collection unofficially started in the early 1940's, when Bill and Mary Ronin (and others) began documenting the community in photography and 8mm film. We find evidence of this in the way they casually jotted down, "Cherry Grove Archives" with a ball-point pen on various photo slides and film canisters, almost seemingly with the knowing that this material would be historic.

Since then, the collection has grown both because of the donations made by Grove community members throughout the years and also because of the dedicated work of Harold Seeley, who's passion for collecting surely saved many Cherry Grove treasures from becoming trash. Today our Archives volunteers are working hard to preserve, digitize and present our material in ways that both educate and engage.

We would like to thank Lee Sharmat, Lorraine Michels and Brian Clark for their many volunteer hours spent collecting and cataloging all the material in the Archives, as part of our on-going mission to digitize all our treasures.