Happy Birthday, Studs Terkel. In his honor: Tell stories!!!
Studs Terkel is 96. In his honor, today’s been declared the International Day of Telling Life Stories.
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• Oral Historians
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Orange County Historical
O.C. History Roundup. I’m in Orange County (CA) right now, where I grew up and where my parents live. I came across this site a few days ago, and it definitely merits a link and a mention. Blogger Chris Jepson has lived in OC for 30 years, and works in local history in some fashion. The most recent post features vintage movies of Disneyland.
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Billings, Montana—History by Mystery
I didn’t set out to just up and explore factoids of Billings, Montana, where my grandmother grew up. No, it sort of seeped in on me gradual.
First, I’ve been reading those letters from time to time (and describing my research methods). There’s a whole slew of them written from Billings. The news and tidbits (and clippings) has driven me to find out more about Billings, Montana. The letters drive the research, and the research informs the letters.
My great-grandmother in Billings wrote to her two daughters, Florence and Doris, in Boston. Florence is my grandmother, Doris my great aunt. I have Florence’s collection of letters. But the photos you see here are from Doris’s scrapbook. The fetching young woman with the 10-gallon hat is Doris. She was a horsewoman and a painter.
Panorama of Billings. 1915. Click to enlarge
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Both girls were born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but their Papa got work that vaguely had to do... Read More
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• Letters in the Attic
• Personal History
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