(Feb. 4, 2016) In honor of the National Park Service Centennial, Assateague Island is celebrating “A Century of Memories.”
Assateague has long been a part of people’s lives, from basic survival and livelihoods to communities and recreational enjoyment. The public is invited to share memories on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at the Assateague Island National Seashore Environmental Education Center (the old visitor center) in Berlin. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visitors may have an Assateague scrap book, old Ocean Beach or Atlantic Estates documents, pictures of the U.S. Life-Saving Stations, newspaper clippings, old family photographs or even home movies that were taken on the island. Park staff will accept the donation of materials to include in its archives or make a copy of it and return the originals.
Organizers will be prepared to collect oral history interviews, so come and recollect stories about the island before it was designated a national seashore or while the national seashore was in its infancy.
For more information, contact Joe Laque at 410-629-6607 or email joseph_laque@nps.gov.
Assateague has long been a part of people’s lives, from basic survival and livelihoods to communities and recreational enjoyment. The public is invited to share memories on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at the Assateague Island National Seashore Environmental Education Center (the old visitor center) in Berlin. The event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visitors may have an Assateague scrap book, old Ocean Beach or Atlantic Estates documents, pictures of the U.S. Life-Saving Stations, newspaper clippings, old family photographs or even home movies that were taken on the island. Park staff will accept the donation of materials to include in its archives or make a copy of it and return the originals.
Organizers will be prepared to collect oral history interviews, so come and recollect stories about the island before it was designated a national seashore or while the national seashore was in its infancy.
For more information, contact Joe Laque at 410-629-6607 or email joseph_laque@nps.gov.