“The idea of the little home among the trees sounds very romantic but for the members of Orange Oral History group there was little romance about the days before sewerage, hot running water, washing machines, refrigeration and air conditioning.” Read full story here.
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Students Write Memoirs for Aged Care Residents
“As part of a program run by Allity Aged Care at her nursing home in Walkerville in Adelaide’s inner south-east, Mrs Wheeler sat down with year 10 student Nathan McCarthy once a week for 10 weeks to co-write her memoirs.” For full story click here.
Delhi’s Oral History
“Museums and libraries in the city have stacks of its records — rich with tangible heritage, tales of rulers and their nobles. However, it does not have much to offer in terms of nuanced personal accounts of places in Delhi, past events and its citizenry. This ‘vacuum’ has captured the attention of the department of archives, which has planned to launch ‘oral history project’ to gather and record people’s memories and experiences. The idea is to document the lifestyle of Delhiites, their stories and perspective, particularly of the previous century that is unavailable in written form, said a Delhi government official involved with the project.” For full story click here.
Grandparents Go To School
Benalla P-12 College’s Avon and Waller campuses held a special morning tea to acknowledge their grandparents last week. ‘‘Students welcomed their special guest, gave them a tour of the classroom and then shared some of the great work we have been doing so far this year,’’ Teacher Sarah Whiley said. ‘‘Students in years 1 and 2 also conducted an interview about their relative’s life, to create an oral history.’’ For full story click here.
Armenian Genocide Oral History Collection
The USC Shoah Foundation has received one of the largest collections of testimonies from survivors of the Armenian Genocide that were recorded over decades by Dr. Richard Hovannisian, a leading scholar on the World War I-era genocide. See full story here.
Tuna Fishing Industry, South Australia
“From the fishermen to the tuna spotters, the radio workers to the families and friends left at home while the fish were being caught, the history of South Australia’s tuna fishing industry has been preserved in a new documentary. Director Garry Kerr interviewed more than 30 people over the two years it took to make the documentary Those Were The Days, which looks at the industry from the 1930s to the 1980s.” See full story here.
Women Survivors of Kosovo War
“With the publication of I Want to be Heard, a collection of oral history interviews, ten Albanian women survivors of sexual violence during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war have finally broken their silence. The speakers have much in common, as they represent a specific group: they all belong to rural communities, a world still dominated by traditionalism at the time of their coming of age, and later, during the war, violently targeted by Milosevic’s counter-insurgency. While they generously reveal intimate details of individual lives, they also provide a broader narrative that we, the readers, have an obligation to pay attention to.” For full story, click here.
Nambour Variety Show
“Nambour, the once jewel in the crown of the beautiful Sunshine Coast, the sweet sugar sprinkles on the parfait that was Queensland’s fruit salad bowl of yore. These days a much derided poor cousin, whose fall from grace was as swift and as merciless as the sub tropical sun that bakes the tree fringed valley in which it’s nestled, its former glory gone, like the black snow that once settled on freshly laundered sheets, a blessed gift from the towns beating economic heart, the Sugar Mill.”
OHQ member, Hamish Sewell’s brainchild, a series of podcasts here.
BBC Sound Effects free download
There can be few organisations that have used more sound effects than the BBC, so there’s bound to be great interest in the news that the corporation has now made more than 16,000 of its FX available for free download. Click here for more information.
Pioneering Life in the Snowy Mountains
In Bold Horizon: High-country Place, People and Story (Rosenberg, 2018), Matthew Higgins leads us on a voyeuristic trek from Kosciuszko to Kiandra, from Brindabella to Bimberi and beyond, a journey that began with regular family visits to the snow as a seven-year-old and continues to this day with solo adventures across Australia’s rooftop. For full story click here.