Blossomtime Gift Bag Day, and a Vintage Baseball Barnstormer. Baseball history, both men’s and women’s, will be the focus of a series of presentations and a documentary screening and discussion scheduled in April and May.
The Exhibit Opening Celebration will be Friday, April 15, 5:00 to 8:00pm. Visitors are invited to tour the exhibition and enjoy refreshments. At 6:15pm, we’ll enjoy a special performance from the Drumline of the Benton Harbor High School Tiger Marching Band! Following the Drumline, brief Opening Remarks will be presented by HMCC Curator Tracy Gierada and by Dr. Thomas Henthorn (UM-Flint), the Michigan Humanities Council’s State Scholar for this exhibition. Admission is free to Hometown Teams and to all exhibits at the Heritage Museum and Cultural Center. For more information, visit www.theheritagemcc.org or call (269) 983-1191.
Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America is part of Museum on Main Street, a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils across the nation, and local host institutions. To learn more about Hometown Teams and other Museum on Main Street exhibitions, visit www.museumonmainstreet.org. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
Museum on Main Street invites the public to share their local sports stories through the “Stories from Main Street” website (www.storiesfrommainstreet.org) or through the free mobile app. Both platforms record and map the location reflected in the submission and will accept written and audio stories as well as videos and photos. Selected submitted stories to “Stories from Main Street” will be featured on the website and app. The archived stories will serve as a searchable record of the unique experiences of life in American small towns. A story recording station will also be available at the Hometown Teams exhibition in St. Joseph.