There is a credit card commercial whose little jingle is “What’s in your wallet.”

Admittedly, it’s quite a catchy little phrase, so I thought I would offer a twist to it and ask, “What’s in your closet?”

Now don’t go all “psycho” on me and think I am referring to your “dirty laundry.”

What I’m talking about has to do with scrapbooks and memorabilia.

This week, I had the privilege of interviewing a woman — one that I actually had connections to.  I didn’t know it at first, but turns out she is the sister of a very dear friend of mine. Her late husband had received a Christmas card from President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and it has been tucked inside a scrapbook all these years.

Retha Summers, the woman I interviewed, said her husband Frank had helped with Carter’s first run for the presidency and to express appreciation for his support, he was sent a Christmas card in 1978.

So obviously, it seemed apropos to do a story on the Christmas card following the recent death of Carter.

It was a beautiful card, and I was even able to find out a bit of its history.

You will have to read about that on the Outlook page of this weekend’s paper. But as interesting as the card was, what intrigued me more was what else was in the scrapbook.

Frank, Retha said, had been very involved in the Civil Rights movement and had even been part of a group in Warren County referred to as the Warren County Improvement League. And in the scrapbook were all kinds of newspaper clippings and such I was drooling to get my hands on so I could learn more.

Turns out, Retha was open to me going through the scrapbook and even encouraged me to do a story on her late husband. I plan to in the very near future and I expect many of those newspaper clippings will help me out. If there are some gaps, I, like any of our subscribers, have free access to the full archives of The Vicksburg Post on Newspapers.com.

This is an awesome addition to The Post’s offerings and while this is not a plug for the service, I think it could be an addition many would enjoy.

That being said, I still value original documents and photographs. Certainly, it is more tedious to go through than a website, but there is a connection you feel that you just can’t get from a computer screen.

So, I ask, “What’s in your closet?”

It could be a bit of history just waiting to be told.

Terri Cowart Frazier writes features for The Vicksburg Post. She can be reached at terri.frazier@vicksburgpost.com.