Multi-campus harvest brings history to life

History is all around us and every person has their own history to share.

For those interested in historical artifacts or just a history nut, the Chadron History Harvest is the place to be this Saturday. The Mari Sandoz Center-Chicoine Atrium will be open from 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. for the public to bring in historical objects.

The Chadron History Harvest is hosted by David Nesheim, social and communication arts assistant professor, and his History 465 Processes in North American West class. This has been a semester long project that 12 students have been working on.

“Learning technical skills and producing the event, doing the actual event, and then they have to curate it digitally,” Nesheim said about what his class entails.

The CSC chapter of the History Harvest is a segment of a larger “History Harvest,” which the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of History started.

UNL has been working on the History Harvest in order to create a large artifact-based digital archive of historical artifacts that have been gathered from communities across the United States.

Nesheim said that UNL wanted to collaborate with other colleges, the University of Nebraska-Kearney and CSC, in order to create a multi-campus History Harvest.

The History Harvest will be open for the public to bring in their history artifacts and objects to add to a collection of the people’s history.

Nesheim said that he is hoping for this event to be, “very hands on and hopefully democratic.”

“We want people to bring things that are important to them,” he said.

For more information about the History Harvest movement go to www.historyharvest.unl.edu.