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When people are driving into

downtown Battle Creek on the

Penetrator, they may have wondered

about the stone tower in Monument

Park.

The statue of Sojourner Truth and

C.W. Post in the park are self-expla-

nitory, but the stone tower may be a

mystery.

Local historian Kurt Thornton

has been creating a series of history

programs for AccessVision called

“I’ll BC-ing You,” featuring stories

about Battle Creek subjects, and his

latest video program tells the story

of another local historian, James H.

Brown, and his stone history tower

in Monument Park.

Thornton came up with the idea for

creating local history video programs

after watching the PBS series “The

Civil War,” by Ken Burns, back in

the 1990s.

“Burns created his incredible pro-

gram by using still images and add-

ing motion, by panning or zooming

across the photos,” said Thornton. “It

gave still images a feeling of move-

Local historian highlights city in ‘I’ll BC-ing You’ videos

Kurt Thornton, with the town he loves in the background, is making a series

on Battle Creek’s history in “I’ll BC-ing You.”

ment, of being a little more alive,

and I thought that by using that same

technique, I could tell stories about

Battle Creek’s amazing history.”

After years of accumulating more

than 40,000 digital images of local

historic scenes, Thornton contacted

Battle Creek’s AccessVision studios,

and found out that the organization

offered classes in a digital editing

program named Final Cut Pro.

Interestingly, the software included

a feature called “The Ken Burns

Effect,” which makes it possible to

create those digital special effects

• to give movement to still photo-
  graphs.
  Thornton comes by his interest
  in local history from his mother,
  Frances Thornton, who spent most of
  her life collecting and sharing Battle
  Creek history.
  “Mom (Frances) loved Battle
  Creek and loved collecting any-
  thing to do with its history,” said
  Thornton. “Luckily, I was able to
  help her climb through buildings
  being demolished or going through
  moldy boxes of stuff to find historic
  treasures.
  “She passed that love of history
  on to me, and I’m excited to use
  new methods of story-telling, like
  Facebook and these mini-documenta-

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