Since taking over duties this winter as Ogdensburg’s historian, Ms. Madlin has embarked on an aggressive campaign to use podcasts, blogs and uploaded video segments to inform people about the community’s rich heritage, dating back to its earliest settlement in 1749.
Most recently, she has also begun exploring how to place matrix barcodes — also known as QR codes — at selected historic sites in the city so visitors will able to someday scan the code with their smartphones and watch a short video clip highlighting that location’s history.
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