ITEM 3.4A OHP 4.11.2017 MinutesITEM 3.4A
4-11-17 Otsego Heritage Preservation Commission Minutes
Present: Zonja Matushenko, Chris Wilson, Toni Seroshek, Gail Anderson
Council Liaison Corey Tanner
Meeting called to order at 7:05pm. Agenda changed to eliminate new park name
under item No.5 and to replace it with: Otsego Festival. Minutes of the last
meeting were approved.
Park signs are being worked on by Dan Licht and his staff per Corey. No other
news has been received from the AVID project of recording Seniors' stories and
histories by high school students.
Festival focus by OHPC was chosen: "History, Her story, Your Story". Our goal is to
collect stories from now as well as from anytime in Otsego's history which is
about ordinary people doing, seeing, taking pictures of everyday activities or
scenes. Today's stories make tomorrow's history.
Zonja wrote an article we all endorsed for the next issue of Otsego View which
introduces this concept. We asked Council members to write a story of their own
Otsego history. We have received stories from Corey Tanner and Jessica
Stockamp. We will run an example of an Otsego story in the issue following the
introduction to the concept of "History, Her story, Your Story" in the next
issue. We will accept pictures related to the story also. We hope to make this a
regular feature in the Otsego View.
Our collections will be featured at the Prairie Festival and may be made
public. We wish to make oral recordings of Otsego's "Your Story," in a booth or
place attendees can record an incident or memorable event which happened to
Otsego's residents.
We also discussed the City has a "warming house" it purchased for the City which
might work as a recording location. Zonja will contact Tami Loff to see how
stories could be submitted electronically or by mail to the City to our attention.
Corey has been researching an old court record and he will submit a report soon
about what he has learned.
Meeting adjourned at Bpm. Next meeting is scheduled for 7pm on May 9, 2017.
Gail Anderson, Recorder