As a quick follow up to last week’s post about creating a sonic history here’s a great video highlighting 100 years of sound history and two excellent web resources to help you find the sounds that you find most memorable.
personal history
What’s the story?
Road Trip!
Touching Base After an Absence
A History of Sound
Sonic World: Your Aural History
Stories of Friendship: A Reading List
I’ve really enjoyed reading some of your comments and reactions to the last post about the importance of including friendships in our personal histories through social media and I’d love to know what books you’ve read where friendships play a major role. Here’s a list of a few that I’ve read and enjoyed. Add your[Read More]
Friends: A Place in the Heart, A Place in Personal Histories
By Pam Pacelli Cooper President,Verissima Productions It was the first day of my sophomore year in high school. I was opening my locker when I noticed a tall, rawboned girl next to me with a brilliant smile. “I’m Kathie,” she said. “Our friendship began at that moment. Though we live on different continents and live[Read More]
Context, Context, Context: Personal Historians and American History
By Pamela Pacelli, Personal Historian President, Verissima Productions So you’re doing a personal history for someone and they want to write about their grandmother who was the first woman to vote in her tiny Kansas town. Or, you’re interviewing a 90-year-old man from Pennsylvania whose father fought in the First World War 100 years[Read More]
Palaces for the People: You and the Public Library
By: Pamela Pacelli President, Verissima Productions I was 7 years old and the huge grey building with its copper dome and tall, fluted columns seemed like one of the palaces I had read about in fairy tales. My mother and I walked through the heavy bronze door into a room with marble floors,[Read More]
