"Three veteran journalists, who have witnessed and chronicled major South Dakota events for years are being interviewed and recorded as part of an ongoing oral history project in the state."
This is an interesting article from which we can learn. Read the full article here.
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Digitising Coalfields Heritage, NSW
Local resident turned historian, Jack Delaney, undertook a remarkable project in the 1970s and 1980s. Realising that so many of our local stories went unrecorded and that when many elderly residents passed away they took not only their stories, but our region’s history with them – he decided to act. Jack began interviewing as many people as he could, particularly from the coalfields area, deliberately seeking out ordinary people whose lives often went undocumented. The result is an astounding oral history collection containing hundreds of interviews, which he deposited for safe keeping with the Coalfields Heritage Group. For full story click here.
Adelaide’s Market Gardens
Campbelltown Council’s recent decision to consider including $14,500 in its 2017/18 budget to produce an oral history collection on the area’s horticultural past means a lot to Max Amber. “All the vegetables were grown in very ordered rows, they didn’t just go out and sprinkle them,” says Mr Amber, who is also Campbelltown Historical Society’s president. “Cauliflowers and cabbages; they made rows with a horse and a plough.” For full story click here.
School memories
In our youth there was certainly a much greater emphasis on the three Rs and we learned many things by rote, which had the effect of staying in our minds to this present day. The history of reading instruction is, to some degree, the history of pendulum swings between what was believed to be the correct method at the time. For full story click here.
Sydney Harbour Bridge 85th Anniversary
The State Library of NSW is celebrating 85 years of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the release of an oral history collection of interviews made in 1982 with about 70 surviving men and a woman who had built the bridge. For full story click here.
Wynnum Manly Historical Society’s Oral History Project
THE 21st century and history are colliding in a unique way, as a new project aims to capture the past. The Wynnum Manly Historical Society’s Bayside Stories project team is collecting oral histories from people in the area using iPads and iPhones. The society’s oral history co-ordinator, Sharee Cordes, said she came up with the idea of recording the history of people in the area to involve the community. For full story click here.
Perth’s Museum of Water
People are invited to bring water that is significant to them in a container and donate it to the museum. The water is then “archived”, the details of the donor and the provenance of the water are recorded, and the donor is interviewed about the particular significance of the water they have donated. For full story click here.
Jenny Davis – WA Theatre Doyen
Jenny Davis is a doyenne of WA theatre. Listening to stories as a child nurtured her passion for the oral history of others. She came to Perth on a whim and entrenched herself into the arts scene. She is Tim Minchin's "Miss Honey' and is now a champion for celebrating the lives of seniors. She is speaking to Geoff Hutchison on Who are You? Listen to her interview where she talks about oral history and reminiscence therapy here.
Technology changes farming
A REPORT published by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia in 2015 found that “developments in computers, robotics and machine learning algorithms mean that almost 58 per cent of the jobs in Australia have a medium- to high-probability of being substituted with computing in the next few decades.” With this in mind, the Oral History Group looked at the jobs they had in the past and how they had changed. Read full story here.
Beatles First US Concert
Here’s the tale of the historic 1964 visit, as told to The Washington Post by some of the people who lived it. Click here.