Historic Happenings Blog

Monday, March 16 -- Hunterdon County Charles Scammell, Stanton Stories.  Charles Scammell will show us a  DVD oral history of Stanton, New Jersey as told from the perspective of eight individuals who have lived in Stanton their entire lives.  The DVD was produced 10 years ago and is aging beautifully. It captures their stories from before 1940. They talk about what it was like growing up here, going to the one-room schoolhouse, medical care as they knew it and life in a rural community at the beginning of the 20th century.  Red Mill Museum Village, Main Street, Clinton

2019 Annual Conference: Access and Inclusion in Oral History Apr 18 at 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM Apr 19 at 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM Monmouth University 400 Cedar Ave, West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764 We hope to explore the ways in which the oral history community is enabling individuals with unique needs, including but not limited to visual, hearing, mobility, or cognitive challenges, to participate in oral history as both interviewers and narrators. How do we share oral histories, both in brick and mortar archives and on the web, in broadly accessible and inclusive formats? In what ways is the oral history community documenting the disability rights movement and the experience of those with special needs? Who is the audience for such interviews and how do we prioritize levels of accessibility when resources to do so are limited?