Wednesday, September 17
10AM-2PM: Lexington Visitor’s Center
3PM-5PM: Natural Bridge State Park
On Constitution Day, the national America250 Commission will bring its “Story-Mobile” to Lexington and Natural Bridge (one of only four localities chosen in Virginia) as part of its 50-state tour to record “the largest oral and visual collection in our country’s history.”
Inside the traveling studio, or more passingly at the self-recording kiosk outside, “everyday Americans” are invited to reflect and share distinctive stories about their own personal experiences, felt meanings of historic events, and visions of what our country has achieved, what it hasn’t yet, and what we might, ahead. Accessible via YouTube, the yearlong project will score these chords together into a diverse “American Symphony” that can lastingly speak to our current moment in time and place, just as the 1976 bicentennial did for earlier generations, 50 years ago.
Click here to read more about the project, opportunities to engage, or to contact RHS to record future stories for its own commemorative oral history archive, as we approach the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Lexington and Rockbridge County in 2028.