VIDEO FLASHBACK: Covington School Christmas Concert 1984, Part 2

Chances are if you attended a Dist. 123 school in 1984, you sang in the Christmas concert.

This week, it looks like some students from the old Dearborn Junior High School also participated in the holiday show. The picture is a little distorted but the sound is great and the children sing like angels.

Again, bucking the trend of today's "winter" concerts, the public school students perform "Do You Hear What I Hear," "Go Telll It 'Round the Mountain" and "What Child Is This."

The video, shot with an early-1980s camcorder, was donated to the

If you have home movies on Super 8 with Oak Lawn in the background, or old VHS or Beta video, bring it to Kevin Korst, the library’s community historian.

Kevin can transfer it on to DVD and give you a copy and the original back. I’ve seen Kevin at work, and he’s very organized and neat.

The library will also accept and scan old photographs and color slides of Oak Lawn. The only media the library can’t transfer is reel-to-reel audio-tape, but Kevin can tell you where to take it.

Every resident that donates visual media to the library will be credited as the donor and/or photographer. The library has a killer collection of photographs all donated by local residents.

For more information about donating photos, old home movies and video to the Oak Lawn Library’s Local History Room, contact community historian Kevin Korst. Kevin can also answer your obscure local history questions.