Remembering Benzie:
An Oral History Project
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BENZONIA PUBLIC LIBRARY
AND PARTNERS RECEIVE $50,000 FOR 2-YEAR LOCAL ORAL HISTORY PROJECT |
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Benzonia Public Library is honored to announce it has received an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant to partner with the Benzie Area Historical Society and Museum and Benzie County Central Schools to create a teen internship program focusing on oral histories relating to veterans, families, agriculture, and artisanship. Remembering Benzie: An Oral History Project will magnify and preserve one of our region’s greatest assets: our people and their histories. September 2019
The Remembering Benzie Oral History Project is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This grant allows grant recipient Benzonia Public Library to partner with the Benzie Area Historical Society and Museum and Benzie County Central Schools to create a teen internship program focusing on oral histories relating to veterans, families, agriculture, and artisanship. This program will magnify and preserve one of our region’s greatest assets: our people and their histories. The mission of this project is to collect, edit and archive high quality interviews of our community’s older population, veterans, and others with a unique or interesting perspective of Benzie County and surrounding areas. For more information email: [email protected]
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Updates and PR Page The Remembering Benzie Project has been showcased in a variety of newspaper articles in addition to Channel 9&10 News broadcasts. You can read updates published in the Benzonia Public Library newsletters. |
Benzie Central students showcasing community through oral history project.
YEAR 2: Olivia Bailey, Leola Richard, and Liam Jones
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YEAR 1: Melia Lorenz, Finn McLaren, Ferd de Guia, AuSable Kreiner, and Reeve Katt.
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We would also like to take the time to recognize our partner
in this project, the Benzie Area Historical Society and Museum. Thanks to the awesome team at BAHS, all of the amazing stories being collected by the student interns will be available at the museum in the archives and as exhibits, when the project wraps up. It takes a great deal of people working together to make a project successful and we could not be more grateful for the team we have! Vertical Divider
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This project was made possible
in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services LG-27-19-0151-19. 
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