Garrett Park Oral History Project Seeking Volunteers

Garrett Park Oral History Project Seeking Volunteers

Would you like to know more about our town as seen through the eyes of some of the people who made Garrett Park the special place it is? Do you want to hear first-hand what it was like to live here in earlier times? If so, come join in interviewing some of our long-time residents as part of the Garrett Park Oral History Project.

The project began in the 1990s as part of the town's Centennial celebrations as an effort to preserve the memories of Garrett Park that are held by its present and former residents. After a lengthy hiatus, the project is beginning again under the auspices of the Garrett Park Archives Advisory Committee. We hope to capture a sense of what it was like to live in Garrett Park during various times in its history – to enliven the facts and figures found in deed books and census records with anecdotes about people and events in the life of the Town.

We are looking for volunteers to conduct interviews and others to transcribe them. We have “how to� information and sample questions to guide the novice interviewer.Interviewing and transcribing are both great ways to get to know some of the Town’s long-time residents and learn more about the historic town you call home.

If you are interested, please contact Archives Advisory Committee Chairman, Charlie Snyder (301-942-2442, ccsnyder@verizon.net or Oral History Coordinator, Nancy Schwartz (301-942-3291, gp.schwartz@verizon.net.) Also, don’t hesitate to contact us with suggestions of persons to interview.

Expires: 2012-02-29 · Submitted: 2012-01-25