Four Oranges
Four Oranges is expanding its work to document the arts and architecture of Essex County to encompass not only journalism but also public history methods. It is looking to Community History for training its team in oral history and other documentary methods, as well as to receive a grounding in ethical leadership as it records the stories of modern-day caretakers of Essex County’s historic sites.
Created as a nonprofit media organization focused on arts and architecture, Four Oranges is evolving into a public history facilitator. The organization has already begun this journey with the Orange Branch Historical Society, researching the legacy of a former rail line that shaped regional development in Essex County.
Four Oranges is looking to Community History for formal training in recording oral histories and in the ethical stewardship of historical materials. They intend to explore the 250th-anniversary theme by profiling the volunteers and congregations who maintain the Revolutionary-era cemeteries and churches of Essex County today, a team they call the “modern-day stewards” of history.
