Throwback Thursday - Stories: YES!
In 2017, BRAHM was awarded the Stories: YES! grant. Since November 2017, BRAHM has worked with Bethel School’s 8th grade class. Students attended workshops based on narrative structure, storytelling, photo composition, interviewing, and video editing. The seventeen students split into four groups and chose to focus on members of their community.
Stories: YES! from the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street program provides funds to train and equip students for Youth Engagement and Skill-building (YES!). Since 2012, hundreds of young people in fifteen states have created digital stories and shared them online.
Each spring, young people across the country engage their communities to discover and digitally document their unique history by utilizing professional equipment. Organizations hosting a Museum on Main Street exhibition are invited by Humanities Councils to submit a proposal for Stories: YES!.
The four films produced look at:
The Stone Mountain General Store in Bethel,
Deal Cornette Christmas Tree Farm,
Livestock farming in Bethel, and
An interview with Dorcus Hodges, Bethel native, and school custodian.
If you didn’t get get a chance to see this a few years ago, we definitely recommend you check them out now :)
View the full The Way Watauga Works exhibition here