Mosquitoes nipped at the skin as dusk fell over the Mashpee River Woodlands on September 25, the last traces of daylight fading into overcast skies and cloaking Trout Pond in
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Savannah Maher
Savannah comes to Wyoming Public Media from NPR’s midday show Here & Now, where her work explored everything from Native peoples’ fraught relationship with American elections to the erosion of press freedoms for tribal media outlets. A proud citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, she’s excited to get to know the people of the Wind River reservation and dig into the stories that matter to them.
Savannah got her start in journalism reporting for her hometown’s local newspaper (The Mashpee Enterprise) and public radio station (WCAI), and has since contributed to New Hampshire Public Radio, High Country News, and NPR’s Code Switch blog. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018.
When Elana Doyle moved from Sandwich to Mashpee in 2017, one of the first things she did was look for the local town Facebook group to join. However, there was one problem.
âI noticed there wasnât one for Mashpee, so I figured, âWhy not make one?â and I started the group,â she said.
Ms. Doyleâs group, The Mashpee Message, began in July 2017 and has amassed more than 8,000 members in its nearly four-year existence.
A dueling Facebook group, The Mashpee Meeting Place, started by Danielle Marino Silva, began in October 2018 and has more than 1,500 members.
What is it like to operate and run a town Facebook group with numerous posts and hundreds of comments a day?