Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Grandmother Stories
Thinking about this class and our projects of interviewing a local resident; gets me into thinking about the oral history that is within my own family. My grandmother is 80 years old and is soon to be 81 this year. I write to her frequently while here in Vermont, probably more than anyone else, but rarely do I have the time to actually talk to her one on one. I'm sure she has great stories of her past that she is just dying to tell some one, as she lives on her own and has few visiters each week. Stories about her experiences as a youngin' and family members that have gone and passed. I think that when I see her next I will try and get some of those stories unburied; and who knows possibly pass them on through my family as a sort of lore or just to tell of the nicest lady I ever knew.
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Josh, I sympathize with you and wish I had come across the idea of oral history long before my Situ (grandmother) faded away. I went to visit her this past weekend, it is hard to see her, her brain is consumed by alzheimers. She doesn't know I am there, and if she did, she wouldn't remember me, but I can't help but hope she can at least feel my presence. I wish I had had the sense to write down her stories a long time ago.
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