Town of Keene residents and guests will gather at the Keene Valley Library from 2 pm to 3:30 pm on Saturday, August 9 to celebrate the 400 stories available through “Adirondack Community: Capturing, Retaining, and Communicating the Stories of Who We Are”, the first OurStoryBridge Partner Project. All are welcome.
Adirondack Community, available at www.myadirondackstory.org, is sponsored by the Keene Valley Library. Adirondack Community is a multi-year local history project that collects and organizes 3 to 5 minute audio stories and related photographs from Town of Keene community members through an online platform to share the rich social and cultural history of this community located in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains.
This project is the model used by the national nonprofit, OurStoryBridge Inc., to support 42 Partner Projects in 15 states and one territory.
In a town of about 1,100 residents, almost 11,000 unique users from around the world have visited the website to listen to stories. Since the launch of Adirondack Community in June 2019, volunteer storytellers have recorded 400 stories, with over 90 of the stories collected from Keene Central School students in a program called SchoolStoryBridge, piloted in Keene and available to schools throughout the country.
The complete collection is available at www.myadirondackstory.org where stories are sorted into eight categories — the most popular of which are People, Catastrophes, Outdoor Activities, and Arts and Culture. This website also hosts 25 podcasts, compilations of stories with narration, including those by students.
Keene residents and visitors may continue to email myadirondackstory@gmail.com to share their stories about life and times, past and present, in the town. Adirondack Community is funded by local residents using Memria.org.
OurStoryBridge Inc. is a national charitable nonprofit organization, originally a program of the Keene Valley Library, whose mission is to serve as a resource and tool kit for OurStoryBridge Partner Projects that preserve and circulate local audio stories past and present through accessible online media; to promote, build and assist with the deployment of these resources in communities across geographic, cultural, socioeconomic, racial and organizational strata; and to help strengthen these communities through sharing of their stories, including preserving the stories of older generations before they are lost and encouraging younger generations to become engaged community members.
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