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Visitors to the Village can now tour the premises at their own speed with
our new sound wand tours! With a sound wand in hand, you don’t need a tour
book; you have your personal guide voice at your fingertips. All you have
to do is to key in the selection you want, when you want it.
There are five levels of information on each sound wand. Level one (the 100s) is a general history tour that takes you through the fifty years of history represented in our buildings; level 2 (the 200s) is about the actual buildings themselves and the people who once inhabited them; level 3 (the 300s) is social history about life during those times; level 4 (the 400s) is “gee whiz” history about interesting developments in the world during those years; and level five (the 500s) is our children’s tour.
What does this mean in reality? To find out, imagine you’re in our 1905
Nazarene Church with your kids. On your sound wand, you type in the number 585 on the
keypad. After a brief pause, the audio file will play, bringing the building
to life right before your . . . ears!
| If you want to hear what that 585 actually does, simply click here (though you should probably have a broadband Internet connection unless
you want to wait a while for the sound data to be downloaded to your computer). |
We have 105 of these short pieces of information live in our keypad-driven
sound wands. That equals nearly four hours of content — you will have to
come back to the Buffalo Gap Historic Village time and again to take them
all in!
We can customize our tours in house, meaning we can add to the tours as
the months roll by, always keeping them fresh. We will also be working
on a Spanish language version (with the help of McMurry University’s foreign
language gurus), as well as other languages as time and space permit. |
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