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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Have you ever thought of what life is like in beautiful
Southern Oregon, and what people have done to make a living there?<span>  </span>Well, this new article by </span><span style="line-height:115%">Maureen Flanagan Battistella, </span><span style="line-height:115%">Charlene
Prinsen, and Thalia Truesdell is a good start to answering that question.<span>  </span>Please download and read, “</span><span style="line-height:115%">Stories of Southern Oregon =
Communities + Libraries + Museums + University,” here: <a href="https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol23/iss3/5/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol23/iss3/5/</a><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">From their
article, “The Stories of Southern Oregon documentation project was designed to
collect oral histories of farmers, ranchers, miners, and forestry as well as
photographs, poetry, and song. First funded on a small scale in 2015 by an
Oregon Heritage Commission grant to Southern Oregon University, the project was
continued and expanded in 2017 thanks to funding from the National Endowment
for the Humanities Common Heritage grant program. Memories and photographs were
captured at Story Day events conducted in association with the Southern Oregon
University Sociology/Anthropology Program, the SOU Hannon Library, local public
libraries, and historical societies and museums.”<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Please read on,
as a short introduction <span>cannot</span> do justice
to the stories of Southern Oregon, and the efforts of these librarians.<span>  </span>Perhaps you can adapt their methods to connect
and interact with their community, to yours.</span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%"><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">





Thank you,<br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Charles Wood<br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OLA Communications<br></span></font></div>