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Committee advances oral-history recordings; seeks web and social-media volunteers
Summary
Volunteers from local access media offered to film oral-history interviews; the committee is collecting volunteer interviewers and asked for a WordPress volunteer to build a simple site and manage social channels for event promotion and newsletter hosting.
The Tricentennial Committee reported July 16 that a local access-media volunteer, identified in the meeting as Terry Underwood, has offered studio time to record oral-history interviews and that volunteers are being organized to interview residents. The committee said it will store interviews on YouTube and that it hopes the oral-history work continues beyond the tricentennial so recordings remain a lasting town resource.
Committee members asked for volunteers to help with interview preparation and with outreach; they discussed developing a short set of starter questions for interviewers and dividing the research workload for historic-figure portrayals. Members also discussed web and social-media needs: the committee has registered a URL and would like a simple WordPress site to host newsletters, event calendars and a sign-up form. Presenters said the committee currently cannot post HTML on the town website and cannot offer a browser-viewable newsletter link without a dedicated web page.
Committee members requested a volunteer with WordPress and social-media experience to build a basic site and maintain Facebook/Instagram accounts; they agreed to do targeted outreach for that role and said the next step is to document required inputs (content, photos, event calendar) for a volunteer web developer. No contract was authorized on July 16; committee members said they can supply scanned artifacts and photos for site content and will recruit volunteers to staff the oral-history and web roles.
