County Officials Recognize Intergenerational

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Contact: Irene Briggs, 301-871-2094
For Immediate Release: June 3, 1999

COUNTY OFFICIALS RECOGNIZE
INTERGENERATIONAL "TIME TRAVELER" PROJECT
AT ASPEN HILL COMMUNITY LIBRARY

A unique intergenerational project focusing on capturing and recording the past, present and future of the Aspen Hill community was recognized today by County officials during ceremonies at the Aspen Hill Community Library.

The Time Travelers is a pilot program designed to promote understanding between senior citizens and middle and high school age students by allowing them to focus on a project of mutual interest.

The project brought together 16 participants, seven senior adults and nine young people, who met on a weekly basis at the Aspen Hill Community Library from January through May, to hear speakers discuss a variety of topics on the Aspen Hill community. Sessions focused on the remembrances of senior citizens from the area, current issues facing the community as it heads into the next millennium, and examined the diverse cultures that make up the community. Between sessions, participants met to discuss what they had learned, to conduct research and record their findings,and to develop the web page.

From the information gathered from these "community conversations," the participants compiled the materials that were put into an Aspen Hill Memory Book, a written and visual history of the community.

The participants also designed a web-page featuring on-line information about the Time Travelers project and created displays of maps containing explanations of the evolution of Aspen Hill - one from 1879 and a current world map showing the family origins of the participants in the Time Travelers project.

The ceremonies recognizing the public-private partners and the project participants included County Executive Douglas M. Duncan, County Council member Marilyn J. Praisner; Maryland Delegate Carol Petzold; Patricia Vorus, representing Health and Human Services Director Charles Short, Marcia Levy, executive director of Interages, and Susan Schmidt, president of the Friends of the Library.

Sponsored by the Montgomery County Sentinel newspaper, the project was also a collaboration with Interages, the Department of Public Libraries, the Friends of the Library, the Friends of the Aspen Hill Library and the Department of Health and Human Services.

For more information on the Time Travelers project, call Interages at 301-949-3551.

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