Tag: local history

Talk of the Towns 10/12/18

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Engineer: Amy Browne

The History Trust: Making the Past Accessible

Key Discussion Points:
Overview of the mission and collections of each historical society/museum, touching on how they manage those collections/archival materials, how they share them with the public.
How mission for each organization translates into a meaningful connection between a community member and some element of local history that you have “protected” or brought to light.
What are the challenges that you face as you think about keeping those materials accessible in the long-term?
Background and rationale for Friends of Island History and the concept of a “history trust”
What are the key components of the proposed History Trust? What would each participant gain through participating? What are challenges you are wrestling with?

Guests:
Bill Horner, Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Friends of Island History
Raney Bench, Seal Cove Auto Museum
Muriel Davison, Tremont Historical Society
Anne Grulich, Great Cranberry Island Historical Society

Maine Currents 12/21/16

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Special thanks to Bill Solomon

This Solstice edition of Maine Currents features stories about holidays, families and winter in Maine. Rev. Dr. Anu Dudley (host of WERU’s “Earthwise” feature which airs Saturdays at 7:30) kicks things off with a look at the history of Solstice celebrations, then we hear from storytellers Marjorie Longwood of Surry, Edee Howland of Blue Hill, Cathy Mink of Waldo and Roger Sprague of Belfast. We close out the hour with some voices from the past- a 2006 holiday special recorded at WERU.

Maine Currents- independent local news, views & culture on WERU-FM 89.9 Blue Hill, 99.9 Bangor, Maine and www.weru.org, Wednesdays 4-5pm Eastern

WERU News Report 8/5/15

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Engineer: Joel Mann

Segment 1: Brook Minner, Executive Director of Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, joins us to talk about an upcoming opportunity to see an 80-year-old “movie queen” film that no one has seen since 1935. It features local people and places that Northeast Historic Film and the Ellsworth Historic Society hopes the audience can help identify. FMI: http://oldfilm.org/

Segment 2: In the interactive, call-in segment of our show today we talk about Clean Elections in Maine with 2 organizers working on the issue. Ann Luther and Phil Bailey serve on the Board of Directors of Maine Citizens for Clean Elections, a group that’s working to pass the Clean Elections Initiative that will be Question 1 on the ballot in November. FMI: https://www.mainecleanelections.org/

Talk of the Towns 1/14/11

Producer/Host: Ron Beard, University of Maine Cooperative Extension
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Celebrating Local History

When did people start keeping track of local history and what forms did that take? What are some trends with local historical societies and museums? How do they make materials available and engage the community?

Guests:
Tim Garritty, Director, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Abbe Museum
Bill Horner, Local Amateur Historian
Larissa Vigue Picard, Maine Historical Society

Voices 7/13/10

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne

Contributors:  Lawrence Reichard, Larry Dansinger, Meaghan LaSalla, Norman Snowden

Lawrence Reichard brings us an update from Honduras, one year post-coup;  Larry Dansinger with an episode of “Outside the Box” re: finding common ground with the Tea Party movement, Meaghan LaSalla reports on an Earth First! protest of industrial wind in Maine; Norman Snowden with a vignette about life in Deer Isle in the 1950s