Friday, February 2, 2024
Gloucester 400 Final Event at Beauport Hotel
Congratulations to the Gloucester 400+ for a fantastic final
event this week hosted at the Beauport Hotel Gloucester marking the close of
Gloucester’s yearlong 400th anniversary celebration!
Honored to have shared remarks commemorating the importance
of their efforts documenting this important moment in our city’s history
joining along side the following speakers:
Elsje Zwart, Executive Director of the Gloucester400+; Mayor
Greg Verga; Terry Weber Mangos, Stories Project Leader; Storyteller Sara
Collins; Jenny Benedict, Director of the Sawyer Free Library (SFL); Julie
Travers, Local History Librarian.
Also, enjoyed sharing in two wonderful milestones revealed
at the event:
- The creation and launch of the Sawyer Free Library’s:
Digital Gloucester Timeline: An Interactive History
- The transfer of the stories and poems from 400+ Stories
Project so they may be housed and accessible at the Library for years to come.*
The digital timeline will put Gloucester's 400+ year history
right at our fingertips and on our computer screens. Writers and poets who
contributed their works to the Stories Project will soon find their stories
connected to the timeline, searchable and easily accessible.
