Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project

By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS

Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly updates. This column is an important part of the project’s outreach to the Phillips community. It is intended to share key progress milestones and to remain accountable to the people of Phillips.

After several months of interviews (which are still ongoing), the Project has taken steps to transcribe many of them, bringing us closer to making these stories public and giving them a permanent home. The process begins with an automated transcription service, but Project staff and volunteers put considerable effort into matching the text with residents’ actual speech, and adding timestamps for future reference.
Along with a more permanent digital home for these oral interviews, we plan to share even more of that content in these Alley updates. As we’ve gotten the interviews and transcription underway, the content we have shared from these interviews has been limited to small excerpts. Starting in February, our updates will include considerably longer extracts from the interviews. We’re especially excited about sharing these extracts, because they fit best into the primary purpose of the Oral History Project: all of us as neighbors sharing our Phillips story with one another.… Read the rest “Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project”