Whitesbog Preservation Trust
Location: Browns Mills
Website: https://whitesbog.org/
Grant Round: 2024 Round 2
Award: Action / $15,000
Purpose: To support the continuation of an oral and video history project documenting locals’ knowledge of the Pine Barrens area.
The Pine Barrens remains one of the most distinctive and misunderstood areas of the Garden State. Whitesbog Preservation Trust’s “Harvesting Stories” project has been working for more than 10 years preserve locals’ knowledge of the area and cast a light on its rich and diverse history.
The project’s primary aim has been to collect oral and video histories from Whitesbog Historic Farm & Village workers, local neighbors, staff and farmers of the rural community of Browns Mills and Pemberton, NJ. In addition to being archived and made accessible online, these vital media are being incorporated into a forthcoming virtual reality tour of the village and a new listening station and video display in the museum.
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