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…
Category: Oral History
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…