Historic Cherry Hill

Log Number: IGSM-249644-OMS-21

Historic Cherry Hill will create History is Now, a teen interpreter program and history learning lab. The program will include training local teens to conduct tours at Cherry Hill, offering teens mentoring opportunities, and providing professional development experiences, including a series of cultural sensitivity, diversity, equity and inclusion trainings. The teen cohort will also learn from senior citizen volunteer interpreters to promote intergenerational learning. Following training in historical methods, material culture, communication, and outlines of U.S. history through immersion in Cherry Hill’s stories and tour during the school year, Historic Cherry Hill will partner with Albany’s Summer Youth Employment Program to employ teens as interpreters.