How will you preserve your family history? Maybe through journaling or family movies? What about grabbing an audio recorder?

Today, we’ll hear all about oral history projects in Connecticut that are recording stories for posterity. Later on, we’ll also hear how the Yiddish language and its dialects are being preserved.

Guests:

Katie Heidsiek: Director of Exhibitions for the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Jamil Ragland: writer for the New Haven Independent, Hartford community member and Hartford bureau chief for "Midbrow"
Elizabeth George: Doctoral student at the University of Connecticut and an instructor for “My Story, Our Future.”
Christa Whitney: Director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project

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How will you preserve your family history? Maybe through journaling or family movies? What about grabbing an audio recorder?

Today, we’ll hear all about oral history projects in Connecticut that are recording stories for posterity. Later on, we’ll also hear how the Yiddish language and its dialects are being preserved.

Guests:

Katie Heidsiek: Director of Exhibitions for the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Jamil Ragland: writer for the New Haven Independent, Hartford community member and Hartford bureau chief for "Midbrow"
Elizabeth George: Doctoral student at the University of Connecticut and an instructor for “My Story, Our Future.”
Christa Whitney: Director of the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project

Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donate

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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