Hudson Mass. Museum Passing On Legacy Of The 'Greatest Generation'

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
As the American Heritage Museum in Hudson. Hunter Cheney is
showing me a tank that's seen some things.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
You can see in the front there's these little kind
of a splash mark that shows where a shell actually
hit the front of the tank.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
This particular Sherman tank fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the end of
World War II, and with fewer and fewer vets to
relay their memories, the museum is trying to preserve what
it can.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
When this generation passes on, they're taking their personal history
with them. There's an even greater emphasis on engaging people
in this history as a means to better understand it.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
He says, people tend to respond to hands on history.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
You want to have three points of contact. That means
either two feet in one.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Hand, and that means gassing up the old M thirty
six and taking me for a very loud, very bumpy,
very thrilling ride. Kyle Shaffel WBS Boston's news radio