Historic Displays is the design partnership between Dr. Kathy Thompson and Steve Procko, specializing in designing and installing a wide variety of history-based content and displays.
You have a story to tell…
It may be about your facility, its history, and unique features. We can help connect your business to your community’s past to build goodwill, support, and participation. It could be your family’s story, from great grandparents to today.
Your story matters. How did you come to this place? What milestones led to your ownership?
How will a history-focused display benefit your business when the bottom line is growth and profit? History-based displays draw attention to your business and can bring in customers.
Well-designed Selfie Spots allow customers to interact within a display, providing social media exposure that is fun and engaging. It provides ongoing, free exposure to your brand.
A community-based display can build local goodwill, support, appreciation, and recognition.
So, what’s your story?
Dr. Kathleen Thompson brings to each project skills as a historian, author, and artist. Thompson has received research grants from the Georgia Humanities Council and other agencies, including the U. S. Department of Education. State and National grants she has been awarded and administered exceeded two million dollars.
Her books can be seen and purchased at KathyThompsonBooks.com. All four focus on regional history in North Georgia. Their cumulative sales number was over eight thousand copies. Besides her books, she had edited, researched, and written and three history focused books for others. Sales of these exceed three thousand books. Thompson has also published articles in over one hundred national and state magazines.
Her many awards include the Georgia State Department of Archives and History Award for the Advancement of History and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Humanities. Kathleen taught art for 37 years prior to retirement. Photography, painting, and fiber arts that she has created have been exhibited in over seventy solo or group exhibits. Besides a doctorate in Education and Creative Thinking, her BFA is in Painting and Printmaking. Having lived in North Georgia for over 50 years, Thompson includes many community connections and resources in each individual and unique installation.
Steve Procko is a documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, photographer and author, creating multimedia content across a broad scope of disciplines.
He opened a commercial film production company with a partner in 1984. In 2003 the company became Steve Procko Productions (SPP). His Emmy-award-winning financial literacy program Talkin’ Money Minutes is available on over 100 Public Television stations nationwide. SPP has also won three additional Emmys over fifty Addy Awards, Telly Awards, and two Promax awards.
His first book, “Rebel Correspondent”, was published in 2021 and his next book “Captured Liberty”, will be published in 2023. Both books are deeply researched true stories about soldiers during the American Civil War.
With a passion for research and sleuthing out the facts on history’s mysteries, Steve’s documentary series “There’s History Around Every Bend”, is currently available on YouTube.