During November and December 2021, Yarmouth High School English teacher Anne Tommaso’s “College Writing” class paid three visits to the History Center. The 18 students in this class were tasked with writing a profile of a Yarmouth person or object. Their first visit to the Center included a tour of the museum and an introduction to the available subjects, which had been selected based on available resources and student interests. The two follow-up visits were dedicated to research. Each student (or pair of students) had a research file on their chosen subject; these files included news clippings, books, and articles as well as artifacts from the collection, like yearbooks or scrapbooks. Depending on their topic, some students also got to work with program recordings, original paintings, and large artifacts like the weathervane and Sandy the Horse. YHC Executive Director Katie Worthing briefed all students on the proper use and handling of collections objects and helped answer questions while Anne Tommaso and YHS librarian Amy Roberson guided students through the research process. The students relied on this research to write their profiles, which employ a journalistic style. You can read their work here and learn more about their semester of local history and writing.
Yarmouth History Center
118 East Elm Street, Yarmouth, Maine · 207-846-6259
