Credits
Top billing in the Credits section goes to persons who have research and contributed content to a very helpful degree, and to persons who have helped bring eTourChatham to the community’s awareness to a very helpful degree. The content alone would be useless without letting our residents, visitors and tourists know it exists.
Thanks to Ron Nickerson and Brian Nickerson of the Nickerson Family Association for doing three Nickerson Homestead pages, both content and audio, with great enthusiasm.
Special thanks to Assistant Librarian and Reference guru Amy Andreasson at the Eldredge Public Library for providing the content for the Library page, and for help in the research of multiple other sites, and for help in picking some “hidden gems” sites. Several locations and the associated content came from an article Amy researched and wrote for The Cape Cod Chronicle. Numerous pieces of content that Amy helped create for the new 2012 Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet have been incorporated into individual locations on the eTour, or used in the “Main St. - Lighthouse Loop Tour” segment overviews. (See details in the individual per-site credits sections below).
Thanks to Lisa Franz and Danita Scribner at the Chatham Chamber of Commerce for their support of eTourChatham from the first day they saw it, which allowed the lead time to get it into the 2012 Chatham Guide, and especially for providing such great coverage in the Guide. Also for starting the awareness ball rolling right at the start, with a plug at the Opening Weekend banquet.
Thanks to David Simpson for doing the audio recordings for many of the eTour locations, without whose help the first release would not have been ready by the Opening Weekend of Chatham 300.
Numerous people have provided overall help and support, both with content and public awareness. Others who have helped out on a specific location page are given credit in the “per-site” credits section.
Thanks go to Spencer Grey of the Chatham 300 committee, and to Mary Ann Gray, archivist at the Chatham Historical Society, for guidance about sites to include and pointers to useful material.
Thanks to Danielle Jeanloz of the Chatham 300 committee for both guidance and feedback on the publicity process and the promotional material needed to promote awareness or eTourChatham in Chatham and beyond.
The Chatham 300 History sub-committee has been supportive, and helpful in creating a connection to all the history-focused groups in town, several of whom have helped with individual sites, as mentioned below in the individual page credits section.
All the specific locations on Main Street that are mentioned in the first three Main Street segments of the “Main St. - Lighthouse Loop Tour” (eg Upper Main Street, Central Main Street, East Main Street) are based on the research of Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, for the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson.
Author and reader: Greg Skomal, senior fisheries biologist with the Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries.
Reader: Roger Denk, Chatham summer resident.
Contributing author and reader: Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War, via a recorded extract and transcript from his keynote address at Chatham 300's Founders Day ceremonies on June 11, 2012.
Reader: Roger Denk, Chatham summer resident.
Contributing author and reader: George Olmsted, of Friends of Chatham Waterways.
Reader: Roger Denk, Chatham summer resident.
Author: Jennifer Ukstins, of the Chatham Windmill Group.
Authors: Brian and Ron Nickerson, of the Nickerson Family Association. Reader: Brian Nickerson.
Author and reader: Amy Andreasson, assistant librarian at the Eldredge Public Library.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Content from the new (2012) Main Street Walking Tour pamphlet created for Chatham 300 by John Whelan and Amy Andreasson, Assistant Librarian at the Eldredge Public Library, has been incorporated into this piece.
Reader: Spencer Grey, member of the Chatham 300 Steering Committee, and former Chairman of the Chatham Historical Society.
There is a wealth of easily available descriptive material available on the Web for many of the locations on eTourChatham, including Town of Chatham website, web sites of respective organizations, Wikipedia (the free encyclopedia), news articles, and amateur historians’ websites. There is also public information on historical plaques (13 new ones for Chatham 300 are all represented on the eTour), at the Eldredge Public Library, and in the archives and bookshop of the Chatham Historical Society. In most cases, these sources were used for general research of the locations in the eTour, and a new summary article of appropriate length and detail was written. Specific source credit is given in the sections below for detailed use of a specific source.
More detail will be added to the Credits section soon