The Legacies Project
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Legacies trains high school and college student to capture the life stories of community seniors on video. The raw footage is archived on a part of the Legacies Project website (legaciesproject.org) hosted by the Ann Arbor District Library. Students also edit together short videos on some aspect of their senior/narrator's life which is shown at a community screening and posted on the Legacies' Youtube channel.
Tomorrow, 3/27, is National Theater Day, and what better time to showcase a woman who has made monumental strides in the theater than during Women’s History Month! Today we honor Mary Ellen Guinn, a narrator with a very special talent and love for all things performance. Even as young as 5 years old, shortly after World War II, Mary’s parents would take her to ballet and opera, nurturing her early love for the performing arts. In her early 20s, she moved to New York and joined the Robert Joffrey Ballet Company. Additionally, her love for the theater brought her a different kind of love—Mary Ellen met and eventually married Leslie Guinn, whom she met at a summer theater program in Cape Cod (who may or may not be featured soon!)
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