Angela Selter

Angela is an Archival Assistant at the Loretto Heritage Center. A former longtime employee of Kentucky’s public library system, she is an advocate for non-censorship and intellectual freedom for all. In her spare time, she enjoys horses, the arts, early Kentucky history, food histories, and hiking.
The corners of a frame, old stained matboard and spotted frame glass come together in this photo.

Framing the Past

In 2024, The Loretto Heritage Center received grant funding from the KY Historical Society, through the Local History Trust Fund, to fuel our project to reframe the most sensitive framed pieces in our artifact collection. This selection included paper documents,…

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Two Loretto Magazines

This summer, the Heritage Center received a grant from the Kentucky Historical Society to purchase a dandy new book scanner to scan much of our collection of materials from the Sisters’ schools in Kentucky. The grant was part of the…

Black and white photo of the shadow of a leafy tree on the siding of a building.

The Secret Life of Photographs

I bet that at some point you have looked at an unlabeled photograph and wondered about what exactly its story might be. The classic who, what, when, where, and why are all common questions while considering an image. Within that…