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• Student, faculty researchers capturing history of Tibetans in exile

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Fayetteville (Arkansas, US), Dec. 5 (ANI): Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who teaches at the University of Arkansas, Sidney Burris and 15 students from the university, are working on a text project titled “Tibetans in Exile Today,” an oral-history program designed to record the stories of Tibetans currently ...
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• Student, faculty researchers capturing history of Tibetans in exile

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Fayetteville (Arkansas, US), Dec. 5 (ANI): Geshe Thupten Dorjee, a Tibetan monk who teaches at the University of Arkansas, Sidney Burris and 15 students from the university, are working on a text project titled “Tibetans in Exile Today,” an oral-history program designed to record the stories of Tibetans currently ...
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• First Southern Woman Elected to Senate Dies

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 505
  Paula Hawkins, the feisty, self-described "housewife from Maitland" who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82. Hawkins had been in poor health recently, having suffered a stroke and a fall, said U.S. Rep. John Mica, a close friend. ...
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• Connecticut: Recording oral histories and more

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 506
  The Jewish Ledger of Connecticut covered oral history interviews in conjunction with National Day of Listening (November 27), while focusing on Estelle Kafer, executive director of the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. The article covers Kafers suggestions and the societys goal in the collection and ...
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• Saratoga: World War Two Vets Recount Their Stories

  
  New York History — Authority: 132
  The public is invited to a panel discussion this Sunday, December 6th, at 2:00 pm at the Saratoga Library (13650 Saratoga Avenue in Saratoga Springs). Saratoga Historical Foundation Historian Ray Cosyn will moderate as veterans from World War II recount their memories.Participating in the panel will be George Cooper ...
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• Recording Memories of Christmases Past

  
  Genealogy Insider — Authority: 494
  It’s easy to get so busy tracing your ancestors’lives that you forget to leave traces of your own life. Which is why I think the Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories is so neat. It’s aseries of daily blogging prompts for Dec. 1 to 24 that GeneaBloggers author ThomasMacEntee set up to encourage participants to ...
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• ‘How We Used to Live’: bringing Transition and oral history together

  
  Transition Culture — Authority: 493
  We had a great event last week in Totnes, called ‘How We Used to Live’, which explored the most recent period in history when the town had a more localised economy and less energy than it does today.  It was built on the oral history work that I have been doing, which will feature in [...]
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• Forever Chamorro – Remembering Who I Am

  
  Tasithoughts's Weblog — Authority: 133
  There is something about cultural identity that is so powerful.  I am from the island of Guam .  I was born there and grew up there most of my life. I am a descendant of the native people called Chamorros . There is no pure native left, as the result of  colonialism and the intermixing with the conquering ...
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• November 27 - National Day of Listening

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  One of the best things about being truly thankful -- as I hope many of us were yesterday on Thanksgiving -- is that it enables us to come from a place of abundance vs. scarcity. When we are thankful and grateful, our cup runneth over and life feels more hopeful and full of possibility. Running on full vs. running on ...
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• Project promotes talking, not shopping, on Friday

  
  Hobbies Fun & entertainment - fun-entertainment.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  A national oral history project is trying to start a new tradition for Black Friday.
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• Patapsco: Life Along Maryland’s Historic River Valley by Alison Kahn and Peggy Fox

  
  Highly Recommended — Authority: 124
  Imagine Studs Terkel in coffee table book format with gorgeous photographs, and you have Patapsco: Life Along Maryland’s Historic River Valley . Writer/folklorist Alison Kahn and photographer Peggy Fox have compiled and created a narrative documenting nearly one hundred years of history in five villages along ...
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• CAP Wants You!

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 435
  POSITION AVAILABLE: JOIN THE CITIZENS ARCHIVE OF PAKISTAN STAFFThe Citizens Archive of Pakistan is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions, a burgeoning photography archive and Pakistan’s most diverse collection of Oral History, we are dedicated to a ...
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• Easy Ways to Talk Family History Over Turkey

  
  Genealogy Insider — Authority: 494
  Combine nostalgia, holiday traditions, grandma’spumpkin pie and immediate access to a bunch of relatives, and what do you get? An atmosphere ripe for talking about family history. Thanksgiving is a good time to tell and listen to stories, get IDs for mystery facesin photos, and share your genealogy discoveries. ...
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• Butch Bouchard Didn’t Fool Around

  
  Dennis-Kane.com — Authority: 476
    How many hockey players played the game since they could walk, practiced like crazy, went through minor hockey over many years, and ended up playing beer league or not playing at all? Most of us, right? Not this guy. Emile “Butch” Bouchard, the big defenceman who skated for the Habs from 1941 until 1956, ...
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• Mosque One: Oral Histories of Toronto’s First Mosque

  
  Faisal Kutty.com — Authority: 128
  Assalamu AlaikumThose of you who love history, here is a link to a rich history of Muslims and how they established first Mosque in Toronto, Canada in 1961.http://mosqueone.com/This valuable work is done by our ... Related Posts B Dorval Mosque vandalized, again ‘Unique’ mosque planned for Halifax – ...
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• ACT UP NEW YORK: ACTIVISM, ART, AND THE AIDS CRISIS, 1987–1993

  
  What Sorts of People — Authority: 127
  EXHIBITION: ACT UP NEW YORK: ACTIVISM, ART, AND THE AIDS CRISIS, 1987–1993running until December 23, 2009; for an earlier What Sorts post on the ACT UP Oral History Project, click herethe exhibition poster below is worth downloading for both the images it contains and the schedule of events it lists.Harvard ...
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• “We Were Downtown”

  
  Hoboken411.com — Authority: 148
  11/14/2009:Tomorrow afternoon at the Hoboken Historical Museum (13th and Hudson).New oral history chapbook features Marie TotaroMarie Totaro, legendary Hoboken baker and past chairwoman of the Feast of St. Ann, details histories of her former dessert café, Le Jardin, and the development of the Feast for the latest in ...
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• Oral history of Bush presidency to be recorded

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Charlottesville, Nov 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs is all set to record an oral history of President George W. Bush’s presidency. The center announced the project on Thursday, which will also be corroborated by the George W. Bush Foundation too.To document the ...
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• Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 566
  These are my notes from the panel presentation, “Unlocking the Past: Techniques for Conducting Meaningful Interviews” at COHE: Committee for Oral History Education Comments from Larry O’Dell, Director of Collections, Oklahoma History Center Research Department Every year we have a year-long exhibit, and we ...
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• Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century by Donald Ritchie

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 566
  These are my notes from Donald Ritchie’s presentation, “Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century” on November 12, 2009, at the “ Oral History for the 21st Century” Symposium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . This conference is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Oklahoma History Center, ...
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