This week’s Monday link roundup is rich with articles on the recovering of lost stories – the Cherokee in the Unites States, Eastern Europeans in Canadian labor camps during WWI, and survivors of the Great Depression.
- I’ve Got My 9/11 Story. What’s Yours? ” I am going to ask you to share your story of 9/11. Reflexively, you might initially refuse to do so. This is understandable.” [Thanks to cj Madigan for alerting me to this.]
- The Story of My Life: “For Peggy Orenstein, it was one of those books—the kind you keep forever and read again and again. It taught her about dreams, about love, and—in a remarkable plot twist—about the courage it takes to really live.” [Thanks to Sharon Lippincott for alerting me to this.]
- Translated NC mission records describe tribal life: “Documents describing tribal life among the Cherokee in their original homeland are being translated from an archaic German script thanks to funding from the tribe.”
- The “Soul of a People” Memory Book: “A major accomplishment of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) was the collection of life histories and slave narratives. These autobiographical accounts give us a first-hand account of life during the Great Depression. Now you can help continue the work of the FWP and share your family stories of the Great Depression in our “Soul of a People” Memory Book.”
- Oral history, folk music and more: British Library puts vast sound archive online: “The British Library has made more than 23 000 sound recordings from all over the world freely available to everyone.”
- Internees’ stories can finally be told: “Federal endowment established to fill void of knowledge about Canada’s labour camps for East Europeans from 1914 to 1920.”
- A Storied Career: 40+ Story Practitioners Talk about Applied Storytelling (eBook): “… covers a wide range of disciplines, such as organizational storytelling, storytelling for marketing and branding, storytelling for job search and career advancement personal storytelling/lifewriting/memoir writing, digital/video storytelling, and more. Representatives of those storytelling genres and more speak their minds in this book. “
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