Dedham Storytellers was a collaboration between Dedham High School and Dedham Historical Society and Museum (DHSM), where I worked as an educator from 2015-2018. The project brought together senior citizens and high school students as a way to exchange memories, life stories, and experiences. As the senior citizens shared anecdotes and scrapbooks from their teenage years, the students listened and took notes. The students wrote essays based on their partners’ experiences. DHSM archived the students’ essays so that future generations can read them and learn from the project.
