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HeritageStories PodCasting

HeritageStories PodCasting allows visitors to your website to download and listen to stories on their computer, using iTunes® or any MP3 audio player. Most new cell phones have the ability to play these files.

What is a PodCast? A podcast is a web feed of audio or video files placed on the Internet for anyone to download.

Why PodCast? To create content (audio or video) for an audience that wants to listen when they want, where they want, and how they want.

PodCasting can be useful for various cultural heritage tourism applications, including:

  • Trail or tour directions for visitors
  • Stories about people or places online
  • Historic Marker Trail Descriptions
  • Historic Monument Info
Telling Their Story: A Study of Storytellers in the U.S.
AMERICAN FOLKLORE - STATE AND REGIONAL FOLKSTALES
AMERICAN FOLKLORE - RAILROAD STORIES
AMERICAN FOLKLORE - NATIVE AMERICAN & ETHNIC FOLKLORE
AMERICNA FOLKLORE - AMERICAN MYTHS & LEGENDS
AMERICAN FOLKLORE - TALL TALES
 
HeritageExplorer
This web-based tool gives you the ability to collect information about your Heritage Area Resources, including People, Places, Objects, and Events, and make it available to your Heritage Area partners and the public via your web site. Visitors to your area can begin their journey of exploration through fascinating layers of history and heritage online. More>
Capture HeritageStories, Folk Stories, Tall Tales & Urban Legends and share them online! More>
Frannie Oates, story teller, musician, artist from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina
Photo: Storyteller, Musician, and Artist, Frannie Oates, tells a story using Native American Folk Art. More about Frannie>
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