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Are you a historical society staffer or volunteer looking for a new way to tell the history of your town and its residents? Are you looking for a more engaging way to teach local history to students? A Cemetery Walk can ignite your community’s hunger to learn about their home town, attract new volunteers and members, and refresh your image in the community.
The Humanities Council and the New Hampshire Historical Society will offer a workshop on Teaching Local History with Cemetery Walks on Friday, July 10 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Chester Historical Society.
In this one-day workshop historical society staff and volunteers will learn cemetery history and the mechanics of creating a cemetery walk living history program – start to finish. Participants will learn how to understand the social history of families and communities as revealed in graveyards, work with primary source documents, write scripts, and present a cemetery walk. We will create a mini-walk for the Chester cemetery and participants will take part in presenting that walk to the group (weather permitting). Experienced cemetery walk presenters and organizers Sharon Wood and Colin Sanborn of the Claremont Historical Society will present the workshop along with University of New Hampshire professor David Watters.
Preregistration is required and space is limited for this workshop. There is a $25 fee for materials and lunch. While the workshop is primarily designed for historical society staff and volunteers, members of the public may register if space permits. To register for this workshop, contact
Stephanie Skenyon, Director of Education at the New Hampshire Historical Society, at 856-0611 .
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