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Spatial Storytelling

A Collaboration in

To Seize Creative Opportunities Made Possible by New Technologies

To Equip Young People with Advanced Skills in Writing with AI and GPS

To Support Heritage Tourism in Saratoga County

An Invitation from Saratoga AI

JANUARY 2026

We’re building ten self-guided audio tours in the premiere
app for triggering stories on phones with GPS markers

Voices of Saratoga will be a companion to Explore Warren County, the app in which CRI has developed four tours with the Warren County Planning Department.

We’re bringing our advanced techniques in spatial storytelling to Saratoga, celebrating its history while developing a to build more historic tours throughout the region.

Lake Luzerne is Our Model

Voices of Lake Luzerne features 12 of Lake Luzerne’s most notable figures voiced as only AI can imagine them.

To be introduced Saturday, January 24
at the Annual Meeting of the
Warren County Historical Society

We acknowledge this invaluable contribution by Lester St. John Thomas, published in 1979:

Here’s the recipe we’ve developed for writing and voicing true-to-life first-person narratives with AI

Now We’re
Teaching It to
Skidmore Students

Free to Skidmore students interested in
building tours forVoices of Saratoga

Classes to be Held in Zoom
Wednesday and Thursday, May 27 and 28

CRI will invite students who take the course to develop tours for the app

Students will be paid $15 per hour up to a maximum of 60 hours and $1000 for their work.

Tours to Choose From

We plan to tell Saratoga Springs’ stories both spatially and chronologically.

These are the titles on which we’re focusing:

Saratoga’s Waters

Gideon Putnam's Saratoga

John Morrissey’s Saratoga Race Course

John Pitney’s Farm

Thomas Durant’s Adirondack Railroad

Frederick Law Olmstead’s Congress Park

Lucy Scribner Skidmore’s Downtown Campus

A Gangster’s Paradise

The Legacy of Urban Renewal

We may produce ten more in Volume 2

To round out our series, we propose to develop this
forward-looking tour with the Climate Smart Task Force

Informed by a Series of
Civic Conversations

Projected Launch: October 2026