BDN & MCHP
The Maine Community Heritage Project is pleased to partner with the Bangor Daily News on the Newspapers in Education program. The program, “provided by newspapers to educational institutions worldwide, encourages using the newspaper in the classroom as a supplemental teaching tool to help students develop essential academic and life skills.”
Last year, BDN featured MCHP communities in its readership area (Islesboro, Hampden, Lubec, Presque Isle) on its full-page, full-color NIE spreads. The stories and images on the pages captured both the local history being explored by the MCHP teams and the processes students went through to digitize items, research topics, and generally do good history. See Islesboro’s page as a sample. (Scroll down to the link on the right-hand side that says “Bangor Daily News Article.”)
We are pleased that BDN will again feature MCHP communities this year–Bangor, Blue Hill, Guilford, and Lincoln. Some students will even make field trips to the BDN offices to help design page content and layout the pages with BDN staff. Features will appear in the spring and be linked from here when they are published.
Meanwhile, BDN features monthly “History Hunters” photos from MCHP communities, both past and present. A Lubec photo was in the September edition; October featured Presque Isle. Read your paper regularly to see these historic photos, all of which reveal something fascinating about the community in question.
OTHER MCHP PRESS
We are pleased to include links below to a selected number of articles and notices about MCHP communities, and other web-based MCHP items. Please let us know if any of these links don’t work–or if you have others to add!
- Announcement of MCHP Seeking Applications in The Magic City Morning Star, 2/20/09
- New Portland in The Morning Sentinel, 5/6/09
- Photos from Thomaston’s June 2009 Website Unveiling Celebration (on Flickr)
- Hallowell in The Kennebec Journal, 9/2/09
- Blue Hill in the Fence Viewer, 9/21/09
- Biddeford in the Sun Chronicle, 9/23/09
- Cumberland/North Yarmouth in The Forecaster, 10/1/09
- Scarborough Community Conversation Announcement in Portland Press Herald, 10/14/09
- Guilford in The Daily Me, 10/22/09
- Farmington in The Morning Sentinel, 10/24/09
- Scarborough Public Library’s Blurb on the MCHP (scroll down, right side)
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