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Article: Oral History for the Local Historical Society, 3rd ed.
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- The Oral History Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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ORAL HISTORY FOR THE LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Third revised edition. By Willa K. Baum. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1987. Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1995.68 pp. Softbound, $12.95.
Many years ago at a regional oral history conference, I met a man who proudly told me that in his retirement years he had set about to document his community's history through oral history interviews. He went on to explain that he had found a foolproof method that overcame his subjects' hesitation to record their memories on tape: He would cajole the potential interviewee into taking a ride with him through town. As they drove he and his ...