Bridging Gaps, Telling Stories
Publication: Ancestry Magazine
Date: December 5, 2007
Summary: Motivated by a coworker's loss of her grandmother, Cathie English of the Nebraska Writing Project started the Aurora High School Oral History Project, teaching her students the valuable art of chronicling life stories.
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As part of the project, students met with, befriended, and interviewed elderly members of their community. They then recorded, transcribed, and presented these interviews with the person's life story. "The first year we met with nursing home residents," says Cathie, and "it was by far the most emotional experience. To get to know these people, and then to see obituary notices later. I didn't know how sad it would be."
But she finds consolation in the knowledge that, although their lives have ended, their stories will live on.
Copyright © 2007 The Generations Network Inc., Ancestry Magazine, and Ancestry Publishing. Reprinted from Ancestry Magazine. Used by permission, all rights reserved.
Salazar, Lisa. 2007. "Bridging Gaps, Telling Stories." Ancestry Magazine, December 5.
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