Museum Asks: What’s Your Best Dearborn Story?
Monday, October 10th, 2011
The Dearborn Historical Museum wants your best Dearborn story.
What if you could buy a book featuring your favorite story about living or growing up in Dearborn? What if you could help write the book?
That’s the idea behind a new project just launched by the Dearborn Historical Museum to collect 300 stories from residents and former residents – and publish the results in time for Christmas shopping.
“This is the quickest turnaround for any book deal I ever heard of,” said L. Glenn O’Kray, vice chairman of the Dearborn Historical Commission, who is supervising the project for the museum. “We’re asking people to write us a very short story – about 900 words — and get it to us by Thursday, October 20. We’d like to have the book ready for sale by November 15.”
The goal of the project is to create a book that will help provide a “sense of place” about Dearborn, its culture and history, according to O’Kray.
“Of course we’re also hoping that people will want to see their names and their stories in print,” O’Kray added. “This could be an important fund raiser at a time when the Historical Museum is in deep financial trouble.”
All proceeds from sales of the book will go to support the museum, which has begun a membership drive to help keep its doors open after city funds run out during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.
