Oberlin Heritage Center Buzz

Hear what people are saying!

• "This is the most fun of the whole festival." (Visitor comment during Family Fun Fair, August 2010)
   
• "Thanks again for a wonderful tour and your incredible flexibility.  The tour sparked quite a lively debate on our way to Sandusky - road vs woods, who to trust, run or stay... It was incredible.  The girls will remember this for the rest of their lives." (Comment about a Freedom's Friends History Walk, July 2010)
   
• "Oberlin is full of fascinating UGRR [Underground Railroad] stories and our tour group enjoyed hearing them." (June 2010)
   
• "The tour really brought to life the rich history of Oberlin and its influence on not only Lorain County but our country as well." (Leadership Lorain County, May 2010)
   
• Notes from visiting 4th graders (with drawings too!): "Thank you for letting my class and grade come and take a field [trip] there.  It was really fun and really cool.  I hope me and my family can come back again." "Thank you for showing what the past was like.  I really liked the stilts (50 steps is my record)."  "Thank you for showing us what kids would do a long time ago."  "Thank you for using the stilts.  I love it." "Thank you for teaching us about Oberlin's history.  I had a lot of fun.  I really liked the schoolhouse!"  "You have a great place to go to!  I absolutely love it!  My favorite thing was the school house and the McGuffy Readers.  That was fun!  I also really liked the sack races...even though I only won once.  Thank you!"  (May 2010)
   
• While studying abroad an Oberlin Heritage Center intern sent a postcard saying, "I've visited countless museums here, but none of them have the warmth and welcoming atmosphere of the Oberlin Heritage Center." (April 2010)
   
• The Oberlin Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People donated money to help fund 2010 summer children's programs. (April 2010)
   
• "I didn't realize that Oberlin had so much history." (Tour visitor, April 2010)   
   
• Oberlin was named on an Honor Roll of college towns compiled by MSN author Crai S. Bower.  The town's history was a prominent part of the honor.  Article. (April 2010)
   
• Our insurance agent wanted us to know that her daughter who attended our summer camps years ago graduates from high school in a few weeks and is is going to Kent State Architecture School. She said her passion for architecture began right here in camp at the Oberlin Heritage Center. She is thrilled! (April 2010)
   
• "Had you not sent me a feedback request, I would have sent you a thank you.  We were very impressed with the tour, and the docent did an excellent job presenting the material.  The moms I spoke with today said their children came home and excitedly shared all sorts of stories they had heard on the tour." (Group leader feedback for a Freedom's Friends History Walk, October 2009)
   
• "The tour rocked!  It was pretty cool about the Amistad.  The church was pretty cool too."  (9 year old visitor who went on the Freedom's Friends History Walk, October 2009)
   
• "The Oberlin Heritage Center is the perfect place to learn more about the community and its role in American history. Here you can tour historic buildings while learning about the community’s founding fathers."  (Travel writer Marilyn Loeser.  Read the online article.  October 2009)
   
• “Most thought provoking! What a lot of work I have to do – but I now have an idea how to start.”   (Comment from attendee at How to be a Good Ancestor workshop, October 14, 2009)
   
• "Excellent material was well researched and presented.  This was one of the best tours I've been on." (Visitor feedback for the Freedom's Friends History Walk, October 2009)
   
• "I would like to thank you for the wonderful inventory database you have posted online of Westwood Cemetery.  It is by far the best one I have ever seen online.  I was thrilled yesterday to find the graves of my great grandfather..." (Letter from a family genealogist, September 2009) 
   
• "Oberlin served as an active stop in the Underground Railroad, eventually helping thousands of people to freedom. At the Oberlin Heritage Center, a local museum and historical society, visitors can get a glimpse of this storied past with tours of historic sites, including the 1866 Monroe House, the 1836 Little Red Schoolhouse and the 1884 Jewett House. While adults learn about Oberlin’s role as a hotbed of the abolitionist movement, women’s activism and scientific discovery, kids will love being transported back to the 19th century with the hand’s on, one-room period schoolhouse." (Joe D. Babcock, writer of “College-town Bound: You don’t have to be a student to love campus life,” Chicago Tribune Magazine.  Read the full article. June, 2009)

   

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