As many of my regular readers know, I’m taking a two week “staycation”. I’ll be back on September 6th. I’ve delved into my archives of over 300 articles to bring you some of my favorites over the next couple of weeks.
To start, here’s the best of Monday’s Link Roundup. Enjoy!
- Once Upon a Time in the Bronx Author Richard Conniff writes, “The purpose of family stories is to tell us who we are, and how to live, in good times and bad, and it seems to me that, without thinking about it, I have always regarded Pop, the great-grandfather I never knew, as my model.”
- Archive of American Television“… houses over 600 rare, in-depth, videotaped interviews- exclusive conversations with the biggest television/film/media stars and iconic industry figures who work behind the scenes.”
- One in 8 Million “…an oral history project in which a different individual among New York City’s 8 million residents is profiled each week of 2009.”
- The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive: “exists to maintain a collection of oral testimonies of those who survived the Holocaust and make these widely accessible for educational purposes.”
- Mapping Main Street: “… a collaborative documentary media project that creates a new map of the country through stories, photos and videos recorded on actual Main Streets. The goal is to document all of the more than 10,000 streets named Main in the United States.”
- A life without left turns “This wonderful essay was written by Michael Gartner, editor of newspapers large and small and President of NBC News. In 1997, he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.”
- 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.”
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