Got a story about the Blue Hill area? Let’s preserve it!
Word is collaborating with Maine Sound + Story, an effort to preserve the history, memory, and stories of Maine through sound, images, and oral history. Blue Hill Peninsula residents can sign up for 15-20-minute interviews with Galen Koch, an audio producer, educator, and sound artist who co-founded MS+S.
Galen Koch is an audio producer, educator, and sound artist based in Portland, Maine. After studying at Skidmore College and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Koch worked as a freelance journalist. She has written and produced stories for BBC World Service, NPR’s Morning Edition, and The New York Times. In 2017, she founded the community storytelling project, The First Coast, to document the lives of coastal Maine residents.