Listen to This: Recording Stories of Bangor's Homeless collection
Content Description
Materials documenting the Listen to This oral history project. Contains audio recordings of fourteen interviews conducted between Bangor-area high school students and people experiencing homelessness. Also includes interview log notes with timestamps, edited interview clips, and project documentation.
Dates
- Creation: 2009 July 27-August 6
Creator
- Kelly, Alexandra (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Historical Note
In the summer of 2009 Alexandra "Alex" Kelly, a StoryCorps alum, led a two-week summer program with eight Bangor-area high school students to record interviews with people experiencing homelessness. Students recorded inverviews at the Bangor Area Homeless Shelter, edited the interviews at New England School of Communications, and broadcast these stories on the "Voices" segment of WERU-FM Community Radio. The project culminated with a public listening event at the Bangor Public Library.
Participating students were: Haley Burns of Winterport, a student at Hampden Academy; Colleen Gilley of Dedham, a student at Brewer High School; Deanna Kizer of Holden, a student at John Bapst Memorial High School; Whitney Klamm of Holden, a student at Brewer High School; Ryan Lad of Glenburn, a recent graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School; Tiffany Rideout of Winterport, a student at Hampden Academy; Will Witham, a student at Bangor High School; and Kate Wypyski, a student at Brewer High School.
Full Extent
0.21 linear feet (1 half-size legal document box including 16 CD-Rs and 1 USB flash drive)
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Access to the audio recordings is available onsite at the Bangor Public Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Alexandra Kelly in August 2009.
Subject
- Bangor Area Homeless Shelter (Bangor, Me.) (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the Listen to This: Recording Stories of Bangor's Homeless Collection
- Author
- Greta Schroeder
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bangor Public Library Special Collections Repository