shhhh! Listen
Very good, now this is me encouraging you to set aside one hour of your time to listen. Just to listen. Story Corp’s National Day of Listening, which falls on November 27th, was established to encourage each and every one of you to sit down and record a conversation with someone who is important to you. Story Corps offers a free, downloadable, Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide to help you prepare your interview questions, record your interview, and guide you towards resources for sharing your stories. This is an amazing opportunity to spend time with a friend or family member, hear new stories, and preserve those stories for future listeners. Story Corps’ National Day of Listening website offers resources to get you started and showcases stories collected from participants across the United States. I would also encourage you to visit the Story Corps website to hear additional stories and learn about the largest oral history project, of its kind, in the world.
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Quilt and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996 is a collection of 229 digitized photographs and 181 sound recordings from two Library of Congress American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the “All-American Quilt Contest”.
This collection is part of the American Memory Project, a website created by the Library of Congress with the intent of providing, “free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity.”
Quilt and Quiltmaking in America is just one of the wonderful collections available through this website and highly recommend taking some time to poke around. The collections are browsable by subject, material, time period, or region.
If you are interested in using photographs, recordings, or other materials featured on the American Memory Project website in your personal projects please read this first.
Featured in this audio clip:
Interviewer: Geraldine N, Johnson
Quiltmaker: Zenna Todd
