Nov 23, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog, National Day of Listening
The day we’ve been waiting for has arrived – today, November 23, 2012 is the fifth annual StoryCorps National Day of Listening! Each year, Story Corps asks all Americans to set aside an hour on the day after Thanksgiving to interview a friend, loved one or...
Nov 23, 2012 | National Day of Listening, Uncategorized
Or, Who Is an Elder? We often think of family elders as the keepers of family history, but do we think to ask aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins what they recall about our families? I recently had an experience that opened my eyes to the need to quiz every family...
Nov 16, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, Magnolia Plantation, National Day of Listening
The Ancestors Told; the Elders Listened; We Pass It On ~ Greetings Genfriends! ~ It’s been a while since we had a Gen community blog carnival. In honor of StoryCorps’ upcoming National Day of Listening, the Preservinators (Angela Walton-Raji, George Geder...
Nov 12, 2012 | National Day of Listening
This Wednesday evening, Nov 14, we’ll be giving away three Olympus VN-7200 digital voice recorders (perfect for recording oral history interviews!). We’ll draw from among our friends who Print-Snap-Share to spread the word about StoryCorps’ National...
Nov 12, 2012 | Joseph McGill, LCA Main Blog, LCA Main Blog
Back to the Beginning It was 12 years ago when I had my very first stay in a slave cabin at Boone Hall Plantation in Mt. Pleasant, SC. The event was filmed for a History Channel documentary titled The Unfinished Civil War. The documentary aired a few times but flopped...
Nov 1, 2012 | LCA Main Blog, National Day of Listening
Take Part in StoryCorps’ 2012 National Day of Listening! Lowcountry Africana is pleased to be an official national partner of the acclaimed oral history project StoryCorps in celebrating the fifth annual National Day of Listening on Friday, November 23,...
