NOON PRESENTATION:: ORAL HISTORY OF THE ILLINOIS AGRICULTURE PROJECT

“Oral History of the Illinois Agriculture Project”

WHEN:   Wednesday, March 7 – NOON

WHERE:  Ellwood House Visitor Center –  509 N. First Street, DeKalb

FOR MORE INFORMATION:  Contact DAAHA at 815-756-8737

Dr. Robert Warren

The second “Brown Bag” lunch program of the DeKalb Area Agricultural Heritage Association’s (DAAHA) three-part lecture series – Agricultural Heritage Programs – will be presented this Wednesday, March 7, 2012 at the Ellwood House Visitor Center beginning at noon.  The audience is encouraged to bring a brown bag lunch.

The title of the program is “Oral History of the Illinois Agriculture Project”. The presenter is Dr. Robert Warren, Curator of Anthropology at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield.  In 2007, Dr. Warren received a national leadership grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to develop oral-history interviews that document the history of agriculture in Illinois.  The project digitized old audio interviews with Illinois farm families, recorded new ones, and indexed all of the recordings.  Everything is now accessible on a website called “The Audio-Video Barn” (avbarn.museum.state.il.us) where users can browse 130 oral-history interviews with people involved in agriculture and rural life in all parts of Illinois.  Many of these interviews are with farmers and farm families in northern Illinois.

This free program is the second of three presented by DAAHA as part of  their “Agricultural Heritage Programs” series.  The next program, also to be held at the Ellwood House Visitor Center, is on March 22^nd – “DEKALB 100 Years Strong”– presented by Mr. Emerson Wells.