Audiences

//**Smith Family Farm Current Audiences**//  //**General Onsite audiences:**// The current audiences that attend tours and or visit the Smith Family Farm includes; people living in or around Atlanta; local families; group tours; school groups; and those people visiting Atlanta for various reasons. The educational audience includes the school systems that are in or around the city of Atlanta. These school groups consist of elementary, middle, and high schools. The Smith Family Farm also has educational audiences from home schooling; private schools; and various child and adult educational camps.

//**General Offsite audiences:**// The current offsite audience includes anyone that desires to look at the Smith Family Farm Gardens website. There is currently no history given about the farm house and the buildings that are around the Smith family farm house. The only information provided is about the Smith Family Gardens and how the family used the grounds to help them survive.

//**Smith Family Farm Potential audiences**//  //**General Onsite audiences:**// While the current audiences that attend tours or visit the Smith Family Farm include; people living in or around Atlanta; local families; group tours; school groups; and those people visiting Atlanta for various reasons; we would like to keep these groups include other groups as well. While we would like to keep these groups attending the Smith Family Farm house, we would like to make the house more accessible to other audiences as well. The Smith House would like to also cater to church groups; college kids; (people or singles?) in their 20’s and 30’s; and to the many diverse cultures living around Atlanta.

//**General Offsite audiences:**// The potential audiences for the Smith Family Farm House should be anyone interested in information for people to learn about the daily lives of a typical farm family in the nineteenth century. The website should tell a future visitor that there is more to the Smith Farm than only its nice gardens. The website should tell an offsite visitor that there is an interpretive exhibit that includes a farmhouse, detached kitchen, blacksmith shop, a double corncrib, a barn, a smokehouse, and a pioneer cabin. The purpose of the website should be to entice the visitor with some information so that they can then make the trip to the Smith Farm exhibit and take its tour.

To be able to understand our current and future audiences at the Smith Family Farm, we will need to create a survey for our visitors to tell us our strengths and weaknesses. Understanding our audience’s needs will help the Smith Family Farm ensure that our guests receive the best experience possible. With input from our audience, we will be able to enhance their experiences over time.

//**Personal Services**//

The personal services in the Smith Family Farm will play a significant role in providing context because they can help the museum visitor experience the sights and sounds of a typical southern farm in the early 19 th  century. The creation of an immersive environment will help facilitate the learning process in another way. By differentiating our approach throughout the program, we are using Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences throughout the Smith farm. The Smith Farm program will provide the visitor with options as to how they wish to learn through words, logic, music, pictures, human contact, and self-discovery. Differentiating instruction will help provide the visitor with multiple ways to make the learning environment more accessible and enjoyable. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(should I discuss which building will pertain to which intelligence?)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Audio and cell phone tours in various languages for the Smith Family Farm program will be available for anyone upon request.**

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Smith Family Farm:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Smith Family Farmhouse will provide interpretation about the daily lives of a typical farm family in the nineteenth century American South. The decorated house will feature costumed actors that will discuss and demonstrate how a southern family would make everyday clothes, textiles, and food products. The actors will also talk about the impact that the industrial and market revolutions had on Atlanta and other farm families. The performer can then discuss the major events in life such as birth, marriage, and death within the family using artifacts and reproductions. The costumed actor can then ask others about major events in their lives and how they compare to what they have heard in the tour. Students will receive a study guide about the industrial and market revolutions. The study guide will also discuss the impact that these revolutions had in the United States.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Detached Kitchen:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The detached kitchen will provide an interpretive exhibit of how women and men used the detached kitchen to cook meals for their family throughout the year. Handout of different recipes made during the time period will also be available for anyone to take. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(We could also have an education assistant teach the kids how to make butter and have children make butter or some other type of food)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Blacksmith Shop:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A museum educator will provide a demonstration of how to create a fire and use a forge, anvil, hammer, tongs, vise, and file to help them create farm equipment. There will also be a panel with pictures of how and why the tool making process has changed over time.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Double corncrib:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Inside of the double crib will be an interpretive panel about the history of the corncrib and its uses.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Barn and Gardens:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The barn will also feature a costumed actor discussing the daily chores on an early nineteenth century southern farm. The actor will use real farm equipment and reproductions to demonstrate to their audience some of the daily chores that occurred inside of the barn. The early morning chores included milking, feeding, and cleaning the barn. The costumed actor will then take their group to the gardens and discuss the various types of plants that a southern family would have grown throughout the years. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(If we had real animals we could have the children milk and feed the animals. Then if they were done they would clean the barn.) (Maybe would could have something already planted in the soil for people to see?) (I also found an interactive website about farm animals on the website for teachers to use)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Smokehouse:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The smokehouse will provide an interpretive exhibit with artifacts and reproductions of how men used this house to cook and store meats. Handout of different recipes made during the time period will also be available for anyone to take.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Pioneer Cabin:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The pioneer cabin will be decorated with artifacts and reproductions of early 1800’s slave furniture. There will also be two kiosks that will feature the PBS website <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Slavery and the Making of America// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. The public will only be allowed to access the following sections; Men, Women, and Gender; The Family; Living Conditions; Education, Arts, and Culture; Religion; and Responses to Slavery. Additional panels will be placed nearby to help discuss the daily life of a slave in the south. There will also be slave music playing in the background. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0000ff; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff0000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Putumayo has some good music)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Educational Programs:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There Smith Family Farm tour will feature GPS oriented educational study guides, hands-on activities, and lesson plans that deal with agricultural life; the market revolution; and the industrial revolution will be available to each school group.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Website:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Smith Family Farm website will discuss the main themes of the tour and feature pictures of each of the buildings on the grounds.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//**Bookstore:**// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The book store will have videos, books, pictures, music, and reproductions of everything that relates to the Smith Family Farm interpretive tour. There will also be a free brochure available that discusses the main themes of the tour.