Blaine County Museum set to launch an oral history project
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The Blaine County Museum is looking for interviewers and interviewees to create a local history collection. Locals interested in collecting oral, historical data from around Blaine County should complete a registration from and submit it to the museum staff not later than January 29. Most interviews are anticipated to last from one to two hours at the most. Interviewers will choose who they would like to question for the project. Training and recording equipment will be provided to people conducting the interviews. Interviewees will likely be locals born in the 1930s or 40s.
Samantha (Sam) French, Director of the Blaine County Museum, recently described a plan to begin collecting oral histories in Blaine County. French, who came to the director's position about five years ago, said, "It's been my goal to do an oral history collection since I arrived at the museum. My hope is the folks who volunteer to do interviews will have contacts throughout the county."
If all goes well she hopes to have a major part of the interviews completed by the start of summer. She noted in a presentation recently to the Chinook Lions Club that, "Winter seems to be the best time to cond...
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