Beginning this Valentine’s Day and continuing through the month of February, 18 residents of Larksfield Place Retirement Community will be teaming up with 66 students from Collegiate Middle School in a pilot intergenerational oral history program designed to preserve the past and increase the young peoples’ knowledge of what it was to be their age during the 1920s and 30s. Teams of three to four Collegiate students will be teamed with “Senior Mentors” to conduct group oral histories. With the donated assistance of VisualWorks, a Wichita audio-visual firm, the sessions will be videotaped and the teams will transcribe their Senior Mentors’ remarks. Through follow up visits with their Senior Mentors, the students will expand on the interviews, adding photographs and other images of the period, ultimately creating web pages that capture the residents’ memories of their middle school years. The finished web pages will be preserved on Larksfield Place’s award-winning web site, I, Witness to History, The Internet History Program in Retirement Communities.

Collegiate Middle School students explore with Larksfield Place residents 
what it was like to be in the seventh and eighth grades back in the 1920s and early 30s.
Go to a listing of stories and interview transcripts [click here]

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