VTAfricanAmericanHeritageTrail
Tax deductible
The Vermont African American Heritage Trail promotes the exploration of black history in Vermont through cultural tourism and we need your support to design and launch a mobile app to enhance the experience of visitors, particularly school groups, to our twenty sites across Vermont.
The Trail brings visitors to Vermont museums and cultural sites where exhibits, tours, and personal explorations illuminate the lives of African Americans for whom the Green Mountain State was part of their identity.
Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity , a division of ALANA Community Organization, and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing launched this heritage trail in January 2013.
The VTAAHT mobile application will have
● An interactive location-based map: This map will highlight each different location on the trail. Once you click on a location you will be brought to a page with more information about that site including its history, accessibility, hours and any associated costs of visiting.
● A guided “tour” through each site: This tour will be given via video by an African American female Vermont resident. This woman will be empathetic, as well as objective and paint a picture of each site related to her experiences and feelings. Viewers will also have the option of adding to the narrative by leaving their own video story of their experience.
● Additional Tourist information: Most users will be at one of the VTAAHT locations when they access the app so it will be important to them to know what is nearby. Information will include restaurants, hotels and places of interest near each site. This list will be exclusive to the application.
● Geocaching: The app will include information for those interested in geocaching related to each site location.
● Downloadable site information: As cell phone coverage evolves towards uniform access in Vermont, users will have the option to download information on any VTAAHT site in advance so they can retrieve site information on location without use of wifi or other data services.
The Trail brings visitors to Vermont museums and cultural sites where exhibits, tours, and personal explorations illuminate the lives of African Americans for whom the Green Mountain State was part of their identity.
Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity , a division of ALANA Community Organization, and the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing launched this heritage trail in January 2013.
The VTAAHT mobile application will have
● An interactive location-based map: This map will highlight each different location on the trail. Once you click on a location you will be brought to a page with more information about that site including its history, accessibility, hours and any associated costs of visiting.
● A guided “tour” through each site: This tour will be given via video by an African American female Vermont resident. This woman will be empathetic, as well as objective and paint a picture of each site related to her experiences and feelings. Viewers will also have the option of adding to the narrative by leaving their own video story of their experience.
● Additional Tourist information: Most users will be at one of the VTAAHT locations when they access the app so it will be important to them to know what is nearby. Information will include restaurants, hotels and places of interest near each site. This list will be exclusive to the application.
● Geocaching: The app will include information for those interested in geocaching related to each site location.
● Downloadable site information: As cell phone coverage evolves towards uniform access in Vermont, users will have the option to download information on any VTAAHT site in advance so they can retrieve site information on location without use of wifi or other data services.
Organizer
Curtiss Reed Jr
Organizer
Brattleboro, VT
ALANA COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Registered nonprofit
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