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Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 12:28 PM
Subject: [AGS] Hometown History Patch for GS
Dear Mary and others,
The Hometown History Patch Program from the History Channel is a wonderful
program. You can find the description of the program and suggested
activities, as well as printable scrapbook pages from the four areas at the
following site:
http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/
The capsule description is as follows:
"Hometown History" is an exciting community program that links Girl Scouts of
the USA with senior citizens and local historical organizations for fun,
educational activities. Sponsored by The History Channel and your local cable
operator, "Hometown History" gives Girl Scouts a chance to explore the past
in their own communities through oral history, architectural history, and
neighborhood history. Upon completion of one activity, a Girl Scout will be
entitled to a special "Hometown History" interest patch ...
The History Channel is happy to answer any questions you might have about
"Hometown History." If you need more help finding sources for "Hometown
History" projects, please call Lourdes Gamez 212-210-9780. "
We did this program as a Service Unit event two or three years ago. We did
at least one activity from the four program areas, Hidden Heroines, Oral
History, Buildings in Time, and Neighborhoods in Time. We set up the program
through our local Historical Park and all activties were done on site. We
did this as a Women's History month event in March and the girls invited a
significant female adult in their lives (we had Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, older
sisters, etc participate) to share the day with them. Lourdes sent is us a
scrapbook, patch and certificate for each girl. She also made arrangements
for our local cable company to become involved and they gave us special
t-shirts for all the girls. If you plan to do a large scale event for 50 or
more girls and you give them a few weeks notice, you may request the
t-shirts.
If you are doing this with just your troop they will send you just the number
of scrapbooks and patches and certificates that you need. The materials were
free.
The program materials are geared toward Juniors and up.
Enjoy,
:) Pat Broe, Senior Troop 290, Massachusetts