New Online Tools for Tennessee River Valley Mapguide Designed to Inspire Cultural Preservation
NORRIS, Tenn., June 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Tennessee River Valley Mapguide is a curated collection of historic places, cultural treasures, and recreational assets. Throughout the Valley, there are beautiful places to visit, local foods to taste, vistas to admire, and adventures to be explored. The test for the region is to interpret these places through the through the stories of the people who call or have called the Tennessee River Valley home, and to preserve the authenticity of the cultural heritage found here. Cultural Heritage is not a renewable resource. It is dependent on preservation techniques that generally have been reserved for tangible physical properties such as land and structures. Investments in storytelling, gaining collective knowledge of local people, and embracing native languages, dance, food, customs, and heritage events are grassroot ways to preserve the cultural assets of a place and to provide authentic experiences for visitors.
- The purpose of the blog and trail app is to inspire storytelling to help with preservation of local cultural assets.
- NORRIS, Tenn., June 14, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Tennessee River Valley Mapguide is a curated collection of historic places, cultural treasures, and recreational assets.
- Throughout the Valley, there are beautiful places to visit, local foods to taste, vistas to admire, and adventures to be explored.
- The Tennessee River Valley Stewardship Council, a 501 c3 nonprofit, serves as the steering committee and editorial board for the Geotourism MapGuide website.