More than 50 years of Columbia’s history have a new home on the shelves of the Columbia Association’s archives. The 32 books, titled “Columbia Institutional Development,” bound in green covers and showcasing documents from the earliest stages of Columbia, were recently donated to the archives by the Howard Hughes Corp. At an official handing-over Thursday,…
Clemens Crossing Elementary School art teacher Benjamin Schmitt and Barbara Kellner of the Columbia Archives recently joined forces to create a combined history and art lesson for 100 third graders. The Clemens Crossing students toured and took photographs of the lakefront in downtown Columbia and listened to Kellner’s presentation about developer James W. Rouse and…