If you have a question about the history of Corry and the surrounding area, there's no one better to ask than the folks at the Corry Area Historical Society. However, sometimes even they don't have all the answers. As a matter of fact, they are asking for help. I’m at the historical society’s museum to find out why they are stumped.

 I’m told there are over 100,000 artifacts inside the museum. Included in those artifacts are thousands and thousands of photographs. Most of the photographs were donated to the historical society.

"It seems like every time you turn there's another box because when people don't know what to do with their family artifacts, they bring them in and donate them,” says Lisa Puckly, Museum Curator.

When Lisa sorts through the donated photographs, she notices that most of them are not labeled with any kind of identification. She does not know the identity of a girl photographed on a horse. She knows nothing about the picture of a woman sitting on a chair. She does not know why everyone in another photograph is wearing big red plastic lips. So, at the beginning of this year, Lisa started a campaign called Saving History. The historical society submits selected pictures to the Corry Journal newspaper and asks readers if they can identify all the missing information about those pictures.

"That's the whole idea of the project,” says Lisa. “Trying to figure out who, what, where, when this happened in the community. Is it even a Corry item? Because people who bring them in don't even know."

As I take a closer look at these photographs, there's one that really catches my eye and arouses my curiosity. Perhaps "The Last Word" can help solve the mysteries of this picture. It's a black and white photograph of people riding on a parade float. The name of the float is "Our Need at Mead." Mead is the name of a park in Corry. The people on the float are all wearing swim wear. Could it be that there once was an outcry for a public swimming pool to be built at Mead Park?

"Maybe they want to swim at Mead Park, but I've not heard this before,” says Lisa. “So, I'm hoping somebody in the community was either involved or knows a little bit about that picture."

A few pictures have been identified by the public since the campaign began. Hopefully, we'll soon learn more about "Our Need at Mead."

The unidentified pictures in the Saving History campaign also also displayed on the historical society's Facebook page. By the way, this is the first time the photograph of the parade float has been shown during the Saving History campaign.