Week Fifteen

At my internship today, Erica and I looked over the my database and added it to the larger file. That took about two hours, but it was interested to do it with her. She knows the area on a more intimate level and I appreciate being about to watch over her shoulder as she edited some of my entries. Then, I uploaded the audio and video from the most recent interview, making two CDs--one for the archive and one for the transcriptionist--and two DVD's--one for the archive and one for the interviewee.

I am struggling to come up with a topic for my next, and last-ever-to-be-written-at-Oglethorpe!!!, paper. I read an article on the history of heritage preservation, but it doesn't really provide much that can be related to BHS. I might push some buttons by using a chapter from Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn and asking Erica some prodding questions...or use a chapter from Sense of History and talk about the importance of community within America...or just use another chapter/article from The Oral History Reader. We'll see!