Wood Library’s Historic Business District Audio Tour

Mar 102013
 

Wood Library has partnered with the Ontario County Historical Society and the FLCC Music Recording department to put together a self guided audio tour of Canandaigua’s Downtown Historic Business District.

Tour can be found at http://woodlibrary.org/audiotour

The idea of digitizing and recording the already existing Walking Tour: Historic Business District Canandaigua, New York brochure, provided by the Ontario County Historical Society, was proposed by Wood Library Director, Jenny Goodemote back in 2012. The project was later brought to life in the FLCC recording studio, with the recording talents of FLCC’s own Bob Potter and a group of eight members of the Canandaigua community who read brief descriptions of the 18 locations on the tour. Once the audio was recorded it was paired with photos and the digitized brochure content then uploaded to the web by tech savvy librarian Ron Kirsop, Assistant Director & Adult Services Librarian of Wood Library.The audio portion of the tour will soon be loaded onto five iPods, purchased through a technology grant provided by Senator Patrick Gallivan, and available for check-out with a valid library card at Wood Library.Wood Library would like to thank everyone who was involved with making this project possible including the voice talents listed below.
Ellen Polimeni - Mayor of Canandaigua
Jenny Goodemote - Executive Director of Wood Library
Ray Henry - Town of Canandaigua Historian
Preston Pierce - Ontario County Historian
Wilma Townsend - Curator at Ontario County Historical Society
Alison Grimes - President & CEO of the Canandaigua Chamber
Kathi Nevin - Executive Director of the Downtown Canandaigua Business Improvement District
Jim Terwilliger - Senior Vice President and Financial Planning Manager at Canandaigua National Bank.

 

Tour Instructions:
To successfully participate in this tour, visit the locations listed on the map (located on tour website) and click on the post with the matching letter.  To listen to the audio simply press the play symbol on the picture included in each post.  The audio plays via embedded YouTube videos.  You will need a strong 3G signal or a WiFi connection to listen to audio.Feel free to leave comments on your favorite posts and email pictures of your favorite sites to rkirsop@pls-net.org (to be included on this site).If you do not have access to a mobile device the library will be loaning  iPods (coming soon) with the tour’s audio and a copy of the tour brochure.  In order to check out an iPod you will need to be 18 years or older with a valid library card.