The windswept Northeastern shore of Prince Edward Island faces towards the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the North Atlantic. Parks Canada’s Greenwich Interpretation Centre is the gateway to a meandering hiking path with views of the prosperous mussel farms of St. Peters Bay, farm fields, and ponds as well as the unusual shifting, parabolic dunes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘oral history’
PEI: Oral Histories at the Greenwich Interpretation Centre
Posted in Prince Edward Island, cultural heritage, history, museums, narrative, oral history, tagged beach, Confederation Trail, dunes, oral history, Parks Canada, PEI, Prince Edward Island on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Midwest Oral History Group
Posted in Ohio, Ohio Humanities Council, oral history, tagged history, Midwest Oral History Group, oral history, oral history association on April 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you using or doing oral history in the Midwest? There are several regional oral history organizations but there hasn’t been one for the Midwest recently:
Michigan Oral History Association
New England Association for Oral History
Northwest Oral History Association
OHMAR – Oral History Mid-Atlantic Region
Southwest Oral History Association
Texas Oral History Association
Troy Reeves at [...]
shikataganai
Posted in oral history, tagged digital design, flash, Japanese American internment, oral history on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Shikataganai”, an interactive flash production, tells the story of Toshi Kadowaki, born in Gardena, California in 1918 through her own words in an oral history interview with her grandson, digital designer Paul Tashima. Kadowaki sums up the experience of the World War II internment camps saying, “Shikata ga nai” or “it can’t be helped.” Tashima [...]
