Four hundred years of this place, collected and kept with the families who have it.

The record of a small town lives in people's houses. It is in shoeboxes, in albums nobody has opened in thirty years, and in the memory of a few people who were there. Every year some of it is thrown out by someone who did not know what they had.

Preserve the Hook collects that record and keeps it — scanned, dated, attributed, and free to read. We do it because someone should, and because we are already here with the equipment.

It is not a service and it is not for sale. Nobody is charged to have their photographs kept, and nobody is charged to read them.