Heritage Site Resilience: Using Digital Humanities at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland

FAIN: GA-276642-20

Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. (Thurmont, MD 21788-3006)
Theresa Donnelly (Project Director: May 2020 to present)

The hiring of two digital humanities scholars and the work of one existing staff member to create podcasts and modified site tours that would enable social distancing.

The Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. is seeking funding to create two new permanent humanities positions and two new digital humanities programs that address the changed museum audience experience. The new positions and the new products/approaches will provide access to the museum and its content for a broad and diverse audience. The first program will link visitors to a docent in real time. The second will create a series of 12 podcast episodes and 6 videos, using existing oral history recordings and archival sources in context and with enhanced content. These will be available on our website and our YouTube channel.