Ideas for museum, libraries, and community organizations

If your organization is planning to commemorate the Bicentennial Steamboat Celebration, please contact the Steamboat Committee (steamboat2011@hanover.edu) so that we may add your event to our calendar.

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• Utilize existing collections to mount an exhibit

• Collect oral histories and share those with others
  

• Tie-in to local festivals with crafts and activities for families
  

• Create a steamboat themed family day with crafts, activities, food, and music
  

• Sponsor a book discussion. The book might be history or literature
  

• Sponsor an art exhibit
  

• Bring in a guest speaker
  

• Sponsor an essay contest
  

• Conduct a community “scavenger hunt” of steamboat or river related sites
  

• Host a community discussion on steamboats and their lasting impact and influence on river industries, communities, the environment, migration, transportation, or any other topics
  

• Work with local restaurants to create a special steamboat themes dinner
  

• Publish a pamphlet or web exhibit on steamboats in your area
  

• Work with local music groups and sponsor a concert
  

• Work to issue community proclamations
  

• Sponsor a teacher professional development program on steamboats history
  

• Organize a youth-focuses poster contest
  

• Create a badge/patch opportunity for Scouts

• Let local media outlets know about the bicentennial
  

• Write an article for your local newspaper
  

• Inform your local organizations about the 2011 Steamboat Bicentennial Celebration and encourage them to sponsor some activities