I know we have touched on this before but it is worth mentioning again. And some point in time, will we be looking to conduct interviews with people who have lived through the 30's? Like the interviews Deb Brush did. And if so, how important are these to the overall project? If we are going to want these I think we must be mindful of the need to reach these folks before it is too late. as I just found out with Manny Fried, it is fragile at that age. I know that we are still at the 'planning stage' but time is running down. Thoughts????

Mike, when you are back from Tuscon we can talk/write about the interviews. I have a few people in mind but don't want to run off half cocked on this. I think I can solicit some good responses but a few pointers from you would be a big help. And then there is the matter of the recording device etc. as you can see from My Library entries the ones I have are on DVD and I can give them to you next time we meet. I'd rather not mail them since I don't have copies. If anyone else has thoughts along these lines (any at all) let them flow.

Tom, I haven't done much interviewing, nor do I know as much about the topics you'd be interview about as you and Peggy and Mike do, but if I can help on any aspect of this, I'm really interested, so please let me know.

11/18/09-- C'mon, Laura, you're being trained in a World-Class Oral History Seminar, so no doubt, you could be very useful for sure!! But seriously, folks... in any event, I'm hoping to get you started very soon on working on digital annotation/indexing with the interviews Tom's already done, and others we'll find--a first-priority place for us to move from citations to working with the real...stuff... // Mike

Tom- We can arrange a time-perhaps via "real" email-to bring the disks up here. I can run copies as a first order of business. Doug