History Matters: Delaware Public Archives' 'Tracks, Towns & Transformation'

Sometimes, especially at night, if you listen carefully, you can hear - off in the distance - the sound of a train horn. It's a sound so common that, unless we're close by, we tend to ignore it. It's just another noise in the sound tapestry of 21st century life.The trains themselves are less ever-present than they once were, but the Delaware Public Archives in Dover wants us to remember that they've been a part of the state for nearly two centuries. Now, the Archives celebrates the role of trains and train travel in the First State's history, and how cities and towns thrived - or didn't - based on where the rails ran.The exhibit at the Archives is called "Tracks, Towns & Transformation," and on History Matters this week, DPM's Martin Matheny talks to State Archivist Maegan Peterman about the exhibition.