Hi to all - an FYI this round. This is really for those of you who are "locals" in Buffalo and thereabouts. Have you heard about StoryCorps? One of their traveling mobile vans will be in Buffalo, NY from July 17 - Aug 23. If you're interested, this is a way to freely and professionally tell some of your life stories - interview style - for about 40 minutes. Could be about a topic or theme in your life. Could be about the local history of Buffalo and what you think/feel about it. You can arrange to bring someone you want to interview - or someone you want to have interview you. You'll come away with a CD of the recording. A copy of the audio interview is also housed at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps has been going on for some time now and you can listen to some of the completed interviews to get an idea of what they're like. Here are some helpful urls at StoryCorps if you want to know more about it. Three steps to record your story: http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story What to Expect: http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/what-to-expect Interactive exercise to generate interview questions: http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/question-generator Or look through a long list of possible questions - organized in topic clusters - as is - or to get ideas http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/question-generator/list Here's a link to the original press release - back in 2003 - from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress - the folks who are archiving all the audio interviews: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-168.html Since the mobile vans are traveling from city to city - you can keep up with their location schedules at: http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/locations Since it'll be in Buffalo this coming July-Aug - thought I'd give folks here a heads up - in case you want to participate - or find people you think would be great to interview. If you're on this list, but live elsewhere - take a gander to see if a van is going to be in your neck of the woods sometime this year. If you do none of the above? At the very least - you can get some great interview questions you can use for your own oral history project - personal, family or community. Or, you can head to the LOC to listen to some of the stories already recorded. To me? This is a modern equivalent of all those great WPA interviews. :) Deb

Excellent heads up, D.S.! I forwarded widely. --- D S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi to all - an FYI this round. > > This is really for those of you who are "locals" in Buffalo > and > thereabouts. Have you heard about StoryCorps? One of their > traveling > mobile vans will be in Buffalo, NY from July 17 - Aug 23. > > If you're interested, this is a way to freely and > professionally tell > some of your life stories - interview style - for about 40 > minutes. > Could be about a topic or theme in your life. Could be about > the local > history of Buffalo and what you think/feel about it. You can > arrange > to bring someone you want to interview - or someone you want > to have > interview you. You'll come away with a CD of the recording. > A copy > of the audio interview is also housed at the Library of > Congress. > StoryCorps has been going on for some time now and you can > listen to > some of the completed interviews to get an idea of what > they're like. > > Here are some helpful urls at StoryCorps if you want to know > more about it. > > Three steps to record your story: > http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story > > What to Expect: > http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/what-to-expect > > Interactive exercise to generate interview questions: > http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/question-generator > > Or look through a long list of possible questions - organized > in topic > clusters - as is - or to get ideas > http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/question-generator/list > > Here's a link to the original press release - back in 2003 - > from the > American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress - the > folks who > are archiving all the audio interviews: > http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2003/03-168.html > > Since the mobile vans are traveling from city to city - you > can keep > up with their location schedules at: > http://www.storycorps.net/record-your-story/locations > > Since it'll be in Buffalo this coming July-Aug - thought I'd > give > folks here a heads up - in case you want to participate - or > find > people you think would be great to interview. If you're on > this list, > but live elsewhere - take a gander to see if a van is going to > be in > your neck of the woods sometime this year. > > If you do none of the above? At the very least - you can get > some > great interview questions you can use for your own oral > history > project - personal, family or community. Or, you can head to > the LOC > to listen to some of the stories already recorded. > > To me? This is a modern equivalent of all those great WPA > interviews. :) > > Deb > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:**:-.,_,.-* Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode AT yahoo DOT com http://www.BuffaloResearch.com "Everyone claims to want a city, but no one here wants city living. City living by its definition is crowded. It is tolerant of other people. It is dependent on a sophisticated population that makes a hundred compromises daily so that they can benefit from the collective energy that a city generates." --Robert N. Davis, Jr. (1955-2007)