Comstock Cemetery Foundation Candace Wheeler, …...2019/11/07  · Candace Wheeler, Executive...

Comstock Cemetery Foundation

Candace Wheeler, Executive Director

Judy Allen, Vice President

Purpose of our Brief Presentation

To Share…

• Visitors to our cemetery and our public

mission; 20 years of study

• Our board likes facts-not guesses

• Average time in cemetery: 47 minutes

• Approach: 82% have no planned approach (“wander”)

• Brochure: 91% take a brochure and follow the gravesites

• #1 desire: “Real, historic and educational materials”

• Flexibility to move around as desired: 79%

Solution: Audio Walking Tour

• Money

• Technical skills

Silver Terrace Cemetery Audio Tour

dedicated to the Gallagher Family

Research-local knowledge and our historian

• Text writing-historian

• Music selection and royalties (example)

• Narrator “Permission to Use” Releases

• Voices of the community; actors, CCF board, and local volunteers

• Photographs of each “stop” Donated by Liz Huntington

• Copyright tour

• Computer

• Microphone ($65)

• Izi.travel.com

• User-friendly creation software

Instructions both written and video

• Pilot review program available

• Can be GIS driven, or not

• Creators consistently give this platform 4-5 stars

• Free; or donations by users in order to

skip ads

1. Go to your App store and install izi.travel

2. Open App, search for

“Silver Terrace Cemetery Tour,

Virginia City NV”

3. “Download” (poor cell service) or

“Start” to use in GPS mode

Advance download is a great idea and

will need help to get the word out

Foster Hamilton

TAPS