Hands On Heritage

Hands  On Heritage  is a unique project that collaborates with a variety of individuals to highlight and introduce historical events, traditional arts and crafts and the people who celebrate them. Our audience are educators and their students, and our goal is to enable them to make exciting discoveries about their culture and art.

Created by writer and historian Robin Van Auken of The Omnibus, Hands On Heritage also seeks to inspire, educate and entertain people of all ages, enabling youth to work with parents or other adults to discover their own family’s history, as well as the community’s.

A free eBook, “My History Is America’s History: 15 Things You Can Do to Save America’s Stories,” can be downloaded to help you start your journey. This guidebook published by the National Endowment for the Humanities helps families and individuals to explore family history and discover how our own family stories connect to the history of our nation.