Oral history training planned

Saltwater Connections will hold an oral history workshop on March 10 on Hatteras Island. More details will be sent later, but anyone interested in learning more about conducting an interview is invitedto attend.

The workshop is planned in response to requests from Outer Banks and Down East folks who have identified collecting oral histories and community stories as an important step in preserving and promoting local folklore. www.saltwaterconnections.org 

Oral history projects provide primary source materials that aid us in our understanding of the past. From oral history interviews we gain what is often missing from textbooks – perspective. Oral history projects can give the community apersonal perspective, helping them connect to and make more meaning from the past. You can bring history to life by documenting the important stories of ordinary people. Oral history provides depth, texture, flavor, nuance, and color to mission history and analysis. As social history, it fills in gaps, gives voice to otherwise hidden people, enriches or embellishes, substantiates or contradicts and potentially corrects the official record.