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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Excellent community-sourced digitization project from SOU!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: <b>Maureen Battistella</b> <<a href="mailto:mbattistellaor@gmail.com">mbattistellaor@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:44 AM<br>
Subject: [Libs-Or] SOU Stories of Southern Oregon Digital Collection Launches<br>
To: <a href="mailto:libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br>
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Southern Oregon University is pleased to announce the launch of STORIES OF<br>
SOUTHERN OREGON, the newest of Hannon Library's Southern Oregon Digital<br>
Archives (SODA) collection at <a href="http://soda.sou.edu" target="_blank">http://soda.sou.edu</a>. Some content is now<br>
loaded and more is forthcoming.<br>
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Thanks to 2016 funding from the Oregon Heritage Commission, the STORIES<br>
project collected more than 200 historic photos and videotaped interviews of<br>
more than 30 farm and ranch families and helper agencies in Southern Oregon.<br>
Included in these are the stories of four family properties designated as<br>
Century Farms by the Oregon Century Farm and Ranch Program: Carpenter,<br>
Parsons, Birdseye, Nealon.<br>
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The STORIES project focuses on multigenerational farms and ranches and<br>
examines how and why agricultural lands stay in the family under the rubric:<br>
Landscape Gained, Landscape Lost, Landscape Changed. The stories collected<br>
reflect the many factors and stresses facing farm and ranch families<br>
including legislation, politics, succession, sustainability, urban sprawl,<br>
and economics. All of the stories are poignant and meaningful to those<br>
families telling stories, and those who hear them.<br>
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The STORIES project is making a tremendous impact, allowing people to tell<br>
their stories, their family history, and the very real challenges these<br>
families face today. Some stories would be lost without this project. Some<br>
stories need to be told again and again so that others can hear them, so<br>
folks can at one point, listen. The work is helping to preserve family farms<br>
and ranches and to keep land in agricultural production. It is helping to<br>
keep the conversation public and informational, not hostile or aggressive.<br>
Helping others to understand another point of view.<br>
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There are many important stories to be documented, and on the strength of<br>
the Oregon Heritage Commission grant, Southern Oregon University was awarded<br>
a 2017 National Endowment for the Humanities grant in the Common Heritage<br>
program to document Southern Oregon's work life in the fields, forests,<br>
mills, and mines. This STORIES project, essentially phase II, launched on<br>
May 11 and May 13 in Eagle Point. More than a dozen Story Days are planned<br>
for Jackson and Josephine counties over the next couple of months. Thanks to<br>
a partnership with the OSU Extension Service, collected stories will be<br>
displayed at the 4-H exhibits at county and harvest fairs late summer and<br>
early fall.<br>
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Thank you Oregon Heritage Commission. We are all so grateful for the<br>
Commission's support and encouragement.<br>
<br>
For more information contact Maureen Flanagan Battistella (SOU<br>
Sociology/Anthropology) <a href="mailto:battistem@sou.edu">battistem@sou.edu</a> cell
<a href="tel:541-324-1382">541-324-1382</a>, Jeffrey Gayton<br>
(SOU University Librarian) <a href="mailto:gaytonj@sou.edu">gaytonj@sou.edu</a>, Mary Jane Cedar Face (SOU Hannon<br>
Archives) <a href="mailto:cedarface@sou.edu">cedarface@sou.edu</a>, or Kate Cleland-Sipfle (SOU Hannon Cataloging<br>
Coordinator) <a href="mailto:clelandk@sou.edu">clelandk@sou.edu</a><br>
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Maureen Flanagan Battistella, MLS<br>
Southern Oregon University Sociology Anthropology<br>
Ashland, OR 97520<br>
TA117 <a href="tel:541-552-0743">541-552-0743</a><br>
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