Veterans History Project

The Library of Congress in conjunction with the American Folklife Center has been working for the last 11 years to compile the history of American veterans and civilians involved in war efforts.

Plains Story Share will be volunteering to facilitate interviews to donate to the Library of Congress archives and is looking for anyone who is a veteran, a family member or friend of a veteran who is interested in recording their wartime experiences. Please look over the information on this site and contact me for more information about how to proceed. We can conduct the interview or simply be there to record and hand over the donation.

This is really an incredible project and I believe stories should live on! Support each other by listening - check out their website to hear examples of recorded stories, subscribe to their RSS or podcast.

Fort Sisseton Festival!

Since I was a young girl, my mother would take me to the Fort Sisseton Festival for a day in June for some great mother and daughter time. I have always loved spending time at the state park and cherished the memories created from visiting the festival and this year I may get to engage within the community of participants!

Plains Story Share may have a booth at the festival to record stories of festival goers and staff, to work towards new creative projects and capture memories from an endless variety of people. In the best situation, we may be able to work with the park to help them capture stories of their own to archive to help support the park. I don't know what it is, but I love this state park. If you would like to know more information about the festival, and the park, go here.

We will keep you up to date on the specifics of our involvement, but for now, plan to make it to the Fort Sisseton Festival on June 3-5, 2011 and we hope to see you there! (p.s. we will be dressed like frontiers....)

The Turtle Wins

Plains Story Share has not held a meeting of storytelling since October, but I wanted to let you all know that we are still alive. Creative audio journalism and storytelling will remain at the heart of this site and the concept will only grow. Currently, we are looking at several creative pieces over the next six months that will be developing as time permits.

As a side project, I have created a service called Living Voice Audio that I will be using to record the lives and oral history of people on an endlessly custom basis - I will serve as an 'Interview Facilitator and Archivist' in the audio format. This is all very new and exciting, please check out my website and keep me in mind to get down those stories of your loved ones. Hear their voices for ages to come!