This saturday we have a real treat planned, a new Storywalk trail called 'The Missing Histories' which is an opportunity for our Festival Workshop Storywalkers this Saturday to add their own mark on Frome by writing location based history.
The Storywalk engine can easily be used as a history machine, but I am always very cautious about following this thread. History, as we all know is being constantly re written and re remembered, the very phrase History - His Story suggests that the news is only one persons point of view at a certain point in time.
Recently I was delivering a workshop and one of the attendees pointed at a wall and said 'my dad built that'. It was such a refreshing thing to hear, a piece of tangible history which we can lean against and touch has a story still today, a connection with the people walking by. Then looking around at every laid stone and every paving slab I thought of their history, their story of how they came to be.
But what if we took this a little step further and added a tiny pice of history ourselves? What if we took the liberty to go just that little bit further than perhaps the Blue Badge Tour Guides would be happy with! Where would that lead, what histories would we create for future generations to read and enjoy, how far can we go and still keep on the ground?
So this Saturday, we will hopefully find out with a little bit of history in the making! Family tickets are £5, bring a lunch, and your tablet / iPad if you have one, plus a little bit of imagination to write history just too good to be true!
But in the mean time, here is a little Soundcloud of me talking about the concepts and possibilities of Missing Histories whilst walking in Dunster woods this morning.
This is the Festival Storywalks link where trails from the Gifted and Talented pupils above are posted, and our new Missing Histories will be tethered too.
Enjoy.
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