‘WHERE OUR HISTORY COMES ALIVE: 50 Years of Recording Recollections’
The Oral History Project (OHP) is 50 years and begins a year-long celebration with a proclamation by First Selectman Fred Camillo, declaring January 22, 2024, Greenwich Library Oral History Project Day.
Founded in 1974, when then library director Nolan Lushington gave it space at the main library and the Friends of Greenwich Library undertook its sponsorship and funding, OHP sent trained interviewers to record interviews with people who helped make, or lived through and observed, the history of Greenwich. One of its earliest interviews was with Mary Dodge Ficker, who described growing up in Old Greenwich in the 1890s.
Staffed by volunteers, the Project has recorded more than 1,250 interviews, published 142 books, monthly blogs, and pamphlets based on its collection, and trained volunteers and Town residents in the techniques of conducting and preserving oral history interviews. Co-chairs Mary Ellen LeBien and Susanna Trudeau invite you to its website, glohistory.org, and its office at Greenwich Library.
