Community foundation awards grant to Lakeside Heritage Society

PORT CLINTON — A local charitable group recently donated thousands in grant dollars to help a historical organization help further its mission of preserving history. The Ottawa County Community Foundation awarded $2,000 to the Lakeside Heritage Society, a group devoted to the history of the Lakeside, the Marblehead Peninsula and the Chautauqua movement. The community of Lakeside Chautauqua, founded in 1873, will celebrate its sesquicentennial, or 150th, anniversary with a season-long celebration to "Honor the Past, Celebrate the Present and Look to the Future," according to the press release from the community foundation. "When people give us items, they are putting their trust in our organization to properly care for them," said Kaysie Harrington, archivist and manager of operations for Lakeside Heritage Society. Funding from the grants will be used to digitize historical documents and purchase archival and museum-quality storage materials for three-dimensional artifacts. Both of these projects are meant to preserve, promote and advance the history of Lakeside, the Marblehead Peninsula and the Chautauqua Movement in America. For more information, visit ottawaccf.org.