Oberlin Heritage Center Buzz

Hear what people are saying!

• "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)

   

• "Ah, thanks so much for this newsletter; I love keeping up with the variety and excitement of all your activities." (Member feedback, May 2009)