History Burgoo

Come visit the KHS Library for Thursday night programs!

In September, we started some new Thursday night programs to go along with our “Getting to Know the Library” session which is offered the first Thursday of each month at 5:30.  Now that October is here, we wanted to remind everyone of these opportunities to learn more about the library and research materials that are available.  Registration is not required for any of these programs, so you’re welcome to just show up at the Library at 5:30 on Thursdays.

 

Here’s the rundown on our programs:

•  1^st Thursday of each month, 5:30-6:30 – “Getting to Know the Library”

A Library staff member will lead interested patrons on a tour of the Martin F. Schmidt Research Library and answer questions about the resources we have available.

•  2^nd Thursday of each month, 5:30-6:30 – Fold3 Users Group

Interested in learning more about using Fold3 (which was formerly known as Footnote)?  Or are you a frequent user of Fold3 that can share your experiences and knowledge with others?  Beginners, experts, and everyone in between are welcome!

•  3^rd Thursday of each month, 5:30-6:30 – Ancestry and Heritage Quest Users Group

We’ve all heard of Ancestry.com, but what’s the best way to use it?  How do you navigate the thousands of databases they have available?  When do you have to leave the computer and go to the original records?  And what exactly is Heritage Quest?  How can it help with genealogy research?  Both of these sites can be valuable to both beginning and advanced researchers, so come to our Users Group to learn more about using these resources or offer your advice to others!

•  4^th Thursday of each month, 5:30-6:30 – RootsMagic Users Group

Do you use the genealogy software RootsMagic to organize your family tree?  Come to the library to meet fellow RootsMagic users, discuss features of the program and strategies for making the most of this software.

(Use a different genealogy software program?  Contact us at KHSRefdesk@ky.gov about forming additional user groups!)

 

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday nights in the Library!

 

ScanFest is coming to the Library!

Earlier this year, the KHS Library purchased a Bookeye 4 overhead scanner.  Since you may be wondering what that is, I’m going to rely on the old “a picture is worth a thousand words” adage.

 

Basically the Bookeye has the ability to create digital images of our collections by using an overhead camera.  We love this machine, because we can now take digital images of our collections that would be damaged using a traditional flatbed scanner.  Many thanks to the Kentucky Historical Society Foundation and the Kentucky Genealogical Society for providing funding to purchase the Bookeye.

So what is ScanFest?  On two Saturdays in October (Oct . 1 and Oct. 29) we are letting patrons bring in their fragile books (family bibles, diaries, scrapbooks, etc.), along with a USB (flash/thumb) drive and we will provide digital images of their materials -- for free!!

Customers can sign up for 20 minutes sessions by contacting the Library Reference Desk at KHSRefdesk@ky.gov.  To ensure the highest quality scans, there will be a 5 page scan limit per session, but you can sign up for more than one session.  Customers can choose  scan resolutions and formats (JPEG, PDF, TIFF).  Digital images will be in color, and black & white photocopies will also be available for 25 cents each.

Okay, a wrap-up:

• ScanFest will be held on Sat. Oct. 1 and Sat. Oct. 29, from 10 am - 5 pm
• Registration is required for a guaranteed time slot.  Walk-ins will be accommodated as time allows.
• Scanning sessions are limited to 20 minutes & 5 pages of material.  Patrons can sign up for multiple sessions.
• Don’t forget a USB drive!  (We recommend at least 4 GB to make sure that all files will fit on the drive)
• Recommended materials for scanning are fragile and tightly bound books such as family Bibles and scrapbooks.  Manuscripts and photographs are not recommended.

Email us at KHSRefdesk@ky.gov with any questions and to reserve your spot!

Exploring the KJHS Archives (conclusion)

While exploring the KJHS archives I have come across every sort of document, photograph, and artifact but there is one last untapped resource I had yet to explore: oral history.

During the last few weeks of my internship, I had the pleasure of interviewing a past KJHS member, Sarah “Suzie” (Orrahood) Hall who, in 1971, was the second female president of KYHA (Kentucky Young Historians Association - it wasn’t known as the Kentucky Junior Historical Society until 1976). Sarah was very active during high school in her Owensboro KYHA chapter, organizing projects to clean up local cemeteries and entering projects into the essay contest at the state convention.

Campaigning for state office was always one of Sarah’s favorite activities in KYHA. She campaigned very hard in high school to be elected state historian, then state secretary, until finally she became state president in 1971 in the twelfth grade.  Sarah’s campaign slogan was “A quitter never wins, and a winner never quits.” Becoming president was one of Sarah’s fondest memories, and one of her greatest achievements.

After leaving KYHA, Sarah continued to be active in the organization by mentoring women that also wanted to become state president. Sarah continued her interest in the past by majoring in history at Western Kentucky University and eventually practicing law. Sarah said that she became a lawyer because the campaigning in KYHA inspired her to pursue that profession. In the 90’s Sarah would return to the Kentucky Historical Society to provide legal council.

I asked Sarah why she thought it is important for today’s students to participate in KJHS. Her answer helped to put me to put history into a better perspective. “History is cyclical,” and “only with an understanding of global events in history can children understand what is going on in the nation.” Sarah is a substitute history teacher in Lexington and she is worried that current students might not be able to connect the past events of history with the present.

Sarah is currently organizing a walking tour of an African-American cemetery in Lexington and an outreach program for young African-American school children to visit historic sites. Programs such as this give children a chance to view history in their community.

Interviews help to prove that history isn’t simply just an event—it’s an ongoing process involving the entire community. While interviewing Sarah I remembered a book I read in graduate school called Presence of the Past by Roy Rosenweig. In the book, Rosenweig explains that there are two types of history; History (national and global events that effect us all, that are recorded) and history (events that shape all of our lives, though on a much more local or mundane aspect of life, that aren’t necessarily recorded). For me the connection came when I realized that everything we do is history. The events, documents and organizations that we create as a society may not make the history books, but they are just as important because they shape the lives of future generations of people in our community. Organizations such as KJHS and the Kentucky Historical Society, though created years ago, still continue to influence members of the community through their actions.  

In the case with Sarah Hall, her passion for history still influences the community today. It is this passion that will continue to serve the community, and also inspire other children to pursue their interest in history.

--Derrick Ranostaj

 

Images:

1.) KYHS chapter outside building in Hodgenville, ca. 1963.

2.) 1974 Harrodsburg High School Yearbook of KYHS chapter.

What YOU Can Discover at the Kentucky Historical Society

 

When I first got the phone call that I had been accepted as an intern at the Kentucky Historical Society, I was thrilled.  I knew that working at a historical society was something that I had always wanted to experience, starting from my days as a history major at Western Kentucky University. I would spend countless hours in the library stacks and special collections areas (and not because as a history undergrad you spend more time writing papers than an English major did) but because I would get so caught up in the thrill of discovery while conducting research on a given historical topic.

As a high school history teacher, I attempted to instill that same thrill of discovery through research into my students by telling them to use resources other than Google and to open their eyes to a world of knowledge they probably didn’t know existed (I mean lets face it, as a seventeen year old, the only way you are going to become interested about a bunch of dead guys is if they sparkle in the sunlight and have an occasional scuffle with werewolves who never seem to have a shirt on). But there would be that occasional student who would come up to me and say “ I actually really enjoyed going to the local history society and finding out some neat stuff”, my faith in the next generation is still in tact.

When I decided to pursue my master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Kentucky, I knew archiving was the area of concentration that would be a perfect fit for me, given the close relationship that history and archives share.  As an archivist, I would be a steward of historical artifacts that someone, someday, would see and feel that same rush of curiosity that I had felt in the library stacks as an undergrad.  The internship at KHS would offer some much needed hands-on experience in archiving practices and, as I would discover upon my first day at KHS, that there is much more to working in a historical society than I had perceived.  The theme of discovery continues.

On any given day I am working at the historical society, I am learning something new about the state of Kentucky.  If it is a day I am working in the Oral History Collection, I am more than likely auditing and  digitizing tapes of interviews or writing descriptions of collections that haven’t been cataloged yet. The most recent of which is the oral histories of some of our more prolific governors of the 20th century. I  can’t tell you the amount of intrigue one can accumulate while watching an interview with Bert T.  Combs over his battle with educational reform in this state or reading through a transcript of John Y. Brown and his dealings with the famous “Colonel” of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame (a subject that will the focus of my next blog entry).  And these are only a fraction of interesting artifacts to be found. 

Genealogy is a huge interest of patrons who come to the society.  When I am not in the lab digitizing, you can probably find me in the microfilm room, manning the reference desk and helping patrons find all sorts of records about ancestors that inhabited this state, spanning from marriage certificates from the late 1700s or court records of the 19th century.  There are even rare books that patrons can access that date back to the 1800s, a pretty awesome thing to behold if you are a history geek, such as myself. If you are a visual person, KHS has got you covered, with thousands of photogrpahs in our collection of many different topics. A personal favorite of mine are photogrpahs of Kentucky servicemen going off to fight WWII in the 1940's( seen below).  I could go on and on about the vast amount of historical information that can be found at the historical society, but then it wouldn’t be any fun in discovering it for yourself!

 

Interning at the Kentucky Historical Society will no doubt be a tremendous impact on my future professional career.  The things I have learned here will be things I take with me forever, a sentiment I hope that any who read this article will share and come down to KHS and just look around.  You never know what you may discover while you’re here.

- - Tommy Grant

Images:

Top Right- Bert T. Combs, portrait painting ca. 1970, KHS Collection 1975.17

Middle Left- Colonel Harland David Sanders, wikipedia.org

Bottom: James E. Bell in navu uniform. World War II vintage. He served in the South Pacific through most of the war as a pharmacist's mate on several ships ca. 1940s, KHS collection JPW.1990ph2.2JEFW3

Beyond the Boring: Interning at the Kentucky Historical Society

I have always loved history. 

My earliest educational memories involve me getting up early on Saturday mornings to watch School House Rock.  In the first grade I may not have been able to spell Declaration of Independence, but oh, could I recite to you its preamble.  As I grew older, my love for history grew deeper.  In the fourth grade I had to introduce the rest of my class to a county in Kentucky.  I introduced Taylor County with, naturally, a heart-shaped poster. In middle school I felt like an amateur history detective—piecing together bits of evidence to find out who killed King Tut; and in high school I wrote my very first thesis paper on the Harlem Renaissance. (And I got an A!) The summer before my freshman year at UK I was agonizing over whether to pursue a degree in Political Science or History.  I tried to let history go, but thanks to the late Dr. Bowman, a wonderful American history teacher with a love for Antebellum America, I realized just how much I missed history and picked it right back up again.  My other passion involves books, which is why I after graduation I am pursuing a Master’s in Information and Library Science.  What does this have to do with anything?  Nothing, other than to introduce myself to you and to show how you excited I am to be working at the Kentucky Historical Society this summer.

My first day here began with me realizing the doors are closed to the public on Mondays and Tuesdays, due to a gradual decrease of frontline staff over the last 3 years (35% reduction, yikes!) so it pays to have a cell phone number handy.  Check.  Within 15 minutes I go from knocking on an outside window to searching the rare book collection with my boss and things have been that great ever since.  If I had to describe my work experience so far in one word, I would choose overwhelming; not because the workload is impossible, but because the amount of historic information here is incredibly enormous.  One day I am pin-pointing on a Kentucky county map the stops General John Hunt Morgan made in the state during his havoc-causing raids...

...the next I am listening to and summarizing oral interviews made by late Kentucky Governors...

1982OH02--Interview with Governor Wetherby

 

...and the day after that I am looking through a collection of postcards of Kentucky spanning ten-thousand pictures.

 


My favorite aspect of this job is that I learn something new here everyday.  Did you know that during the civil war the term “brothers against brothers” was taken literally in one household in Clark County? The Honorable Samuel and Matilda Hickman Hanson had five sons who served during this war: Two served in blue, three served in gray.  Do you know which Kentucky Governor made the unpopular stand during the Southern Regional Education Board conference supporting the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board decision?  I could tell you the answer, but what fun would that be for you? Pull out your magnify glass—or reading glasses, whichever you prefer—come visit the library and see for yourself!

 --Kortnie Allen

Images:

Drawing of townspeople preparing for a raid by John Hunt Morgan, ca. 1864. Handwritten caption at botton of image reads "Main Street while Morgan was expected". Laura G. Pugh Photo Album of Conferate Army Officers and Elected Officials, 2000PH05.42.

  "Oldest Brick House in Kentucky, Built in 1782, Crab Orchard, Ky." ca 1910. Black and white photo of the same home as postcard 3.397. This photo includes several people standing in front of the house. Graphic 5 Ronald Morgan Kentucky Postcard Collection, Graphic5.Box3.398.

Women’s History Month and the KHS Pamphlet Collection

 

 

 KHS Collection. 378 L888 Pamphlet. Catalogue of the officers and students of the Louisville Female College for the year 1873-74, including the names of the students who have been connected with the institution between April, 1872, and April, 1873.

Women’s history thrives in the collections of the Kentucky Historical Society, with interesting treasures found in each of our collection areas, ranging from diaries and letters, to photographs and portraits, as well as oral histories, and material collections of clothing and artifacts.  My favorite nuggets are found in the rare books and pamphlets. We have several pamphlets from a variety of early female colleges and academies in Kentucky.  Family historians relish the lists of students and faculty that some of these pamphlets include, but these small volumes also reflect the character of women's education during their respective time periods.

As I mentioned in a blog from July 26, 2010, 
it is always a treat for us to recommend and retrieve pamphlets for library patrons; this is especially true for any of the school pamphlets.  These school catalogues and announcements allow us to visit the specific school at the time of the pamphlet’s publication, briefly becoming a part of its intended audience.

The Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Hocker Female College, Lexington, Kentucky, 1873-74, includes a two-page article about Hocker Female College, signed “Home and School, for July, 1872.”  This article gives insight into the school’s founder, James M. Hocker, as well as a thorough description of the physical make-up of the facility.

Another glimpse into women’s history can be found in the 1887 Annual Announcement and Catalogue of the Millersburg Female College, Millersburg, Bourbon Co., Kentucky. These pages show an example of a liberal arts curriculum that female students followed at the time.

The list of graduates and students found in pamphlets like the one from the Catalogue of Georgetown Female Seminary, Kentucky, 1887-1888, is often used by researchers to verify names or dates.

This online sampling from our pamphlets is a nice little treat, but it is much more satisfying to read them in our library.  We hope you can visit us after our seasonal hours end. We will return to our regular schedule on March 12, 2011.

Happy Trails,
Brenda Smith

 

 Images - Top Right. KHS Collection. 976.902 K37-4 Pamphlet. Live stock show and fair of the Latonia Agricultural Association. Top Left. KHS Collection. 378 H685 1873-74 Pamphlet. Annual catalogue of the officers and students of Hocker Female College, Lexington, Kentucky.  Above Right. KHS Collection. 976.902 B766-1 Pamphlet. 1887. Annual announcement and catalogue of the Millersburg Female College, Millersburg, Bourbon Co., Ky. Above left. KHS Collection. 378 G351 1887-88 Pamphlet. Catalogue of Georgetown Female Seminary, Kentucky.

 

 

 

Trivia for the Week - Who is the Current State Historian?

Image: w1987ph08.Franklin.509. Old State Capitol, Frankfort, Ky., circular stairway, before restoration. ca. 1920

A recent reference request received in the office of the director of the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) asked for information on Kentucky’s state historians. There have been three state historians, Dr. Hambleton Tapp, Dr. Thomas D. Clark, and Dr. James C. Klotter. All three are or were, Ph.D. prepared historians and all shared a special interest in and research background in Kentucky history.

Dr. Tapp had a long and varied professional background, highlights of which included teaching history at Louisville’s Male High School, filling the superintendent’s position for the Eminence school system, and being the director of health and physical education for the Kentucky Department of Education. Tapp was also the founder, developer and director of the Kentucky Life Museum, which became Waveland State Shrine, outside of Lexington. The museum was started in the late 1950s after the state of Kentucky took over the Waveland property. Dr. Tapp later served as executive assistant to the president of UK and as an assistant professor of history. When he retired from the university in 1971, he was named assistant director and editor of the Kentucky Historical Society. Tapp served as the first state historian under Governors Julian Carroll (1975-1979) and John Y. Brown, Jr. (1979-1983). In addition to his editorial duties at KHS, Dr. Tapp also wrote or co-authored four books and numerous scholarly articles. 

Dr. Thomas D. Clark is the one and only Historian Laureate for Life – a title created by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1990. Dr. Clark, born in Louisville, Mississippi in 1903, also led a varied and distinguished career. He began his teaching career at Memphis State University but soon moved to the University of Kentucky in 1931. Clark would spend a career at the UK, stepping down as chairman of the history department in 1965 and retiring in 1968. But retirement did not suit his character and Dr. Clark would go on to teach at the Indiana University until 1973 and after retiring from IU, he went on to teach at Eastern Kentucky University, the University of Wisconsin as a visiting professor and at Winthrop College in South Carolina  as an adjunct professor. His writing is extensive with over sixty books and one hundred scholarly articles to his credit, many dealing with Kentucky, its history and people. Dr. Clark’s tenure as Historian Laureate for Life lasted until his death at the age of 101 in 2005.

Dr. James C. Klotter was named state historian in 1980, and is the second person (together with Dr. Tapp) to hold the title. After earning his Ph.D. from the UK in 1976, Klotter continued working at the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) as editor and historian for twenty-five years and also served briefly as an instructor at UK. Eventually, Dr. Klotter rose in position at the KHS to become its director and guide it into its new home at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History. Today, he is a professor of history at Georgetown College in Georgetown, KY and is the author of nearly twenty books and numerous articles, many dealing with Kentucky history and personalities. 

The title of Kentucky Historian is bestowed by the Kentucky Historical Society Board

 

--Jim Kastner

 

images - top right, Centre College Biography Page, Hambleton Tapp, 1922

above left, KHS Collection. 1995ph2.41AAFRA14.1. Historians Dr. Thomas Clark and Dr. Henry Cheaney chat during a ceremony at the capitol rotunda, ca. 1980s.

above right, Georgetown College, James Klotter

First Day of Seasonal Public Closing...Mark I on the Wall

 - view from my office window this morning. Great weather to start data entry! (hey, I mean that!)

So, it is the first day of our seasonal closing. (Yes, we are still working here at KHS. The seasonal closing doesn't mean the organization is shut down or that we are turning off any lights.) To be honest, the staff here at KHS has been working towards this day in anticipation for weeks now, so it is a bit surprising to wake up this morning to find us actually here - those of us not snowed out, that is. I know we have been talking in this blog about what we plan on doing and how we are setting goals to make sure we accomplish those plans as we are sacrificing continual public hours for 3 months.

To give you some insight into the minds of the worker bees, I can tell you we are disappointed to not be able to keep the doors open for everyone to come in and see us for these winter months. We enjoy our interaction with the public and truly want to offer access to our collections and continue on with those educationally encouraging moments with youth of various ages. That is the bitter part of the closing, the sweet part is that we can now devote some serious time to making those collections accessible in the future.

This doesn’t mean that we have lost or misplaced any collections, I know we keep talking about “finding” things, but what we are really saying is that we are going to do a more detailed inventory. All of those records from 50 years ago that say “flag” or “journal” or “image of man on horse,” we are going to go through and detail a flag of what, a journal by whom and what was that guy doing on a horse anyway?  We are also planning on getting more of these collections – at a more detailed level – in our catalog, where you can search for them from home. OR in our digital catalog, where you can view them from home.

(IMAGE, right: The special collections and library staff are working on cataloging microfilm for all of the counties. You can tell what we have done as of today.)

Unfortunately, because of budget cuts in the last few years – as I am sure you are tired of hearing about – we don’t have the staff to effectively do both--keep the doors open year round AND created detailed level of online access for our collections. To strike a balance between the two, here we are – doors closed to walk-ins for a few months. BUT, for groups of 10 or more, including researchers, school groups, etc… we will open up for you with some advanced notice. We are also open the second Saturday for January and February, so plan your trips around that. We would love to show you what we have been doing while we were away.

(Image, left-- Behind the scenes, the museum collections and exhibition team is keeping track of their progress on this wall-size chart. You can see the points already accomplished.)

My goals are developing projects and writing lots of grant applications, as well as catching up on our recent oral history collections donations in our record keeping software, PastPerfect, as well as beginning my new skill of cataloging oral history collections into our catalog. I want you to know what the 10,000 items we have in our oral history archive are – other than awesome, that is. I don’t want a repeat of what a student doing research in our library told me a few months ago, which was “the only reason I knew this oral history collection was here was because someone told me about it.”

I can’t wait for the day when that isn’t an issue. Thanks to the tough decision to adopt seasonal hours for 3 years, hopefully that will be a non-issue by 2014.

Of course, we will be updating you on our “findings” as we move on with the inventory/cataloging process. Keep checking back in and don’t be afraid to let us know what you think…seriously.

Sarah Milligan

A New Way to Search the KHS Collections Catalog

 

Over the past few months, the Special Collections and Library staff have provided several updates on how our microfilm cataloging project is coming along.  As we’ve mentioned before, the purpose of the project is to make the materials we have on microfilm just as easy to locate as our other collections.  Librarians and archivists just love it when it’s easier for researchers to find our “stuff,” because we want people to use the books, archival collections, oral histories, and of course the microfilm that we have.

Today we’ve added another way to search our collections catalog – by county!  Kentucky has 120 counties, and often researchers want to look for materials relating only to a particular county.  The new “County” tab of the KHS Collections Catalog lets you do just that.  You can also include additional search terms if you are interested in certain records or a specific topic for that county (such as the Civil War in Franklin County or marriage records in Boone County).

 

Since the first phase of the microfilm catalog project is county records, the County search page also includes a county map of Kentucky that lets everyone see our progress.  All the counties that are colored have been added to the catalog.  (See image at the beginning of this post)

 

If you come to visit the library, you’ll see that we have a similar map hanging outside the entrance to the library so staff, patrons, and other visitors can keep track as we move forward with the project.  Within the next few months, our goal is to finish 29 more counties, or nearly 2500 rolls of microfilm!!  Watch our progress as you’re searching for materials about your favorite Kentucky county using the new County Search option in the catalog.

Annual Oral Historian Brain Swap - Whew, What a Conference!

The recent meeting of the national Oral History Association in Atlanta, GA – I must admit – was very interesting. I don’t know an exact count of participants, but it seems that there is a steady attendance for the last few years, somewhere around 400-500 participants. From what I heard and saw, the Wednesday pre-conference technical assistance workshops were well attended (digital preservation, digital audio, oral history basics, digital video and oral history and the law). The opening program was a short view of a on the WPA Federal Writers’ Project – Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story - I have been waiting to see, as well as a panel of participants discussing the topic and the documentary – including Stetson Kennedy, a Florida WPA writer and folklorist I always enjoy.

After this great start of engaging panels and technical workshops, the OHA conference itself , Thursday – Sunday, seemed to follow the lead. There was a good mixture between reports on new model projects (ie: Audio Histories and Tours of Change, Hope,and Adaptation), discussions on theoretical issues (Theoretical and Practical Challenges in Oral History, Ethical Dilemmas Undercover) and practical applications for oral history in a variety of settings (Oral History in the 21st Century Classroom, Oral History in the Reclamation of Cultural Space). There were Plenary Sessions every day, the Thursday plenary was exceptionally interesting as it dealt with oral history projects in post- Katrina Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, 5 years after the hurricane.

There were many Kentucky projects represented, as well as Kentuckians in attendance. I was pleased to see our oral historians and oral history project leaders represent their state as well as lend their support – once again – on a national stage.

There were so many things I participated in that were interesting, inspiring and just useful as far as oral history for Kentucky in the context of the global discipline. I am so grateful I was able to attend. Please let me know if you have questions about specific panels or presenters, I am happy to tell you more about what I know or connect you with those on a national level that were presenting.

Also extremely exciting is a new book by the revered oral historian, Allesandro Portelli, THEY SAY IN HARLAN COUNTY: An Oral History. Portelli is known in the oral history world for ground breaking oral history examinations and since the early 1970s has been conducting oral histories in Harlan County, KY about the people, the culture and the industry. This new publication is a culmination of this research and is getting great reviews. Although Portelli is from and lives in Italy, he often returns to Kentucky to revisit his friends and work. The original interviews are archived at the Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky.

Please, check out the online program to see more about what was discussed during the 2010 Oral History Association meeting.

Next year is in Denver the second week of October. The topic will be focused on “Memories of Conflict and Disaster: Oral History and the Politics of Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation.” I will be sharing the call for proposals in the coming weeks. Please consider sharing our state’s oral history participation with the West. As for me, you will see me there – early and late – since I have been asked to join the conference program committee.

- Sarah Milligan