| I wanted all the
Chamber members to know that the Collinsville Library will be hosting
the Key Ingredients: America By Food Smithsonian
Exhibit
June 16, 2012 through
August 3, 2012… That is over a year away but the planning has started
with our first meeting at the Oklahoma Humanities Council Offices in
OKC yesterday. There are so many great opportunities for Collinsville
to shine with this project. There are opportunities for additional funding
for companion projects such as the Depot Museum, Lessons plans and activities
for the schools, grants for transportation for schools from Collinsville
surrounding cities, arts learning in the schools and communities grants,
collecting oral history training grants and so much more. The sky is
the limit for what we can do with this program.
The campaign will
begin at the Tri County Fair this August and go from there with activities
leading up to the exhibit. The second big activity in Collinsville could
be the “Taste of Collinsville”. If you are interested in helping
in any way you are more than welcome to become part of the planning
and “doing” committee. Both the Smithsonian and Oklahoma Humanities
Council have support materials and personnel for us. The Tulsa City-County
Library will also be our partner in public relations materials. We are
fully encouraged by TCCL to be involved in this program.
The exhibit itself
will be focused on how food in American and in our area has contributed
to the growth of our families and our country. We will take food from
production in the early days to today. We will highlight the importance
of family meal times, the festivals planned around ethnic dishes, the
people in our community who have kept their heritage alive by the traditional
foods they serve and teach their children to prepare, the role food
has played in the economy from early 1900’s to today and the role
it is playing in our future. There are 15 cases of exhibit materials
prepared by The Smithsonian which will be in the Collinsville Library
for 6 weeks.
Collinsville Library
submitted a grant in 2009 to become one of 6 communities in Oklahoma
to host this exhibit. The fact that we were acknowledged as a city worthy
of the exhibit is in itself a great honor for Collinsville. It will
take all of us working together to make the most of our role in Oklahoma’s
History.
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