Category: Oral History

Working With Museum on Main Street Program to Reach Younger Audience With Oral History

The Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street (MOMS) was recently awarded a grant to engage underserved, rural youth in using technology to capture local stories related to the MOMS’ Journey Stories exhibit.  As part of the grant, I will join another scholar as we conduct workshops in oral history methods for teachers, students and museum staff around Maryland.   I’m looking forward to working on this project as it seeks to reach a younger audience with a product they can share with the local community and national audience via the Smithsonian’s “Stories from Main Street” on-line resource.

Saving Voices of the Past – A Workshop on Documenting Memories and Stories With Oral History at Havre de Grace, Dec. 6

To help residents of Havre de Grace and Harford County preserve eyewitness accounts of the past, I am doing an oral history workshop at the town library on Dec 6th, 2011, at 6:30 p.m.   The program presents the methods for gathering and preserving history through interviews with people by recording their memories and stories.  It will also discuss the digital technologies for capturing and preserving these personal narratives.