Season 3, Episode 1: Imagining What If…?
Guest: Raney Bench
Air Date: March 3, 2022
Host: Jenna Jandreau
Jenna and Raney chat about what goes into publishing our annual award-winning journal Chebacco, mailed to members every spring. At least two years before printing an edition, a theme emerges and we send out a call to authors. Over twenty years of publishing, the journal has undergone a journey, an evolution of its content and design.
Jenna and Raney also provide a sneak peek into the 2022 edition of Chebacco, “Imagining What If…?” which encourages readers to picture an alternate MDI based on failed plans, abandoned dreams, and thoughtful, but sometimes surprising, choices.
About Our Guest
Raney Bench is Executive Director at Mount Desert Island Historical Society and the editor of Chebacco XXIII: Imagining What If…?. Raney has worked in several small New England museums in education, exhibits, collections management, and as an Executive Director. She graduated with a BA in Native American Studies from Humboldt State University, and a MA in Museum Studies from the University of Nebraska. Raney is passionate about the power of the past and how history impacts our daily lives.
Chebacco articles by Raney Bench:
- Maine’s Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan, 2014
- Sounding the Last Whistle: The Canneries of Southwest Harbor and Bass Harbor, 2022
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- No. 37, with Bill Horner - MDI’s Car Crises (link to come)
- No. 11 - “Maine’s Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan”