“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak...
to tell their story for t hem.” Czesław Miłosz, 'The Issa Valley' One of the few things that I truly enjoy is looking out on social media for new ways museums are partnering with speciality companies to create amazing interactive exhibits. In our Digital Public History class, we got into a brief discussion of what makes a good tour. It is certainly a difficult question to answer. What some view as the best tour ever may be only based on interest; the topic is something they enjoy hearing about from someone who is more knowledgeable in it. Other individuals on the tour may struggle to connect to the topic being discussed and become lost in the words of an “expert in the field”. The big question is how do we bridge that gap when giving a tour? Is it showing you are passionate and human? If I give a tour in the most enthusiastic voice I can muster, will a 56-year-old woman care about the specifics of rural wagon production? If I throw in a witty anecdote about the f...