Due to popular demand, in June 2013, we moved our Spirituals and Black Gospel Music Exhibit from the small display window to the Franklin Township Library’s main exhibit space, a huge floor to ceiling four double window display outside of the library’s Historical Room. In the process, we expanded the exhibit to about eight times larger than the earlier one. We laid out and loaded the exhibit from inside the Historical Room, securing rear windows of the exhibit with bicycle locks. In spite of the huge space, we crowded the exhibit with posters, flyers, books, photos, programs, plaques, and recordings, including wax cylinders, Edison discs, 78’s, transcriptions, albums and 45s. One colorful part of the exhibit was a collection of numerous gospel 45s pressed in different color vinyl. We really emptied out our Classic Urban Harmony Archives of Spirituals and Gospel memorabilia at that time. Of course, by now our archives has many times this amount of gospel material. The exhibit stayed up several months and was highly acclaimed.
