Following the Breadcrumbs VIII : Stor e Telling May June 2004

Babes in the Wood
by
Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)

I am traveling back in time and updating all of my Stor e Telling columns for Storytelling Magazine since 2002. I have checked all of the links, updated those that have new URL's and deleted others that have found their way to the Internet graveyard. Through the summer and beyond I will continue to update the columns and post them on my blog until all of the breadcrumbs lead to the end of 2006. At the end of the blog you will find links to the columns from 2002, 2003 and part of 2004, as well as 2007 through 2013.

I continue to write for Storytelling Magazine but will not be adding current columns until the following year. If you want immediate access to the newest websites, consider becoming a member of the National Storytelling Network.

Please feel free to leave a comment at the end of the blog and let me know if you find this useful. I love hearing from you!

American Journeys

Eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the Vikings in AD1000 to the mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later.
http://www.americanjourneys.org/index.asp
 
Countdown to Millennium ~ An Oral History Project
A goldmine for teachers! Lesson plans, interview and videotaping techniques and radio interviews with the people of Appalachia. * This online resource is now a book, available for purchase. However, I was able to access the site via the Wayback Machine and many of the links are still available.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050208194943/http://www.tcomschool.ohiou.edu/cdtm/index.htm

I Hear America Singing  

A portal to thousands of materials showcasing sound recordings, moving images, manuscripts, photographs and oral histories.
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts/

Library of Congress American Memory and Learning Page
Lesson plans, photographs, documents, videos, audio, maps, etc. The place to begin when using primary source documents! http://memory.loc.gov/  The Learning Page link
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html also offers special resources for teachers.

Oral History Association

The organization brings together all persons interested in oral history as a way of collecting memories.
http://www.oralhistory.org/

Oral History Online ~ Suffragists Oral History Project

Seven major figures in twentieth-century suffragist history are represented with full-length oral histories.
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/projects/suffragist/

Oral Tradition - Utah State University: Educational Resources
I offered this site in 2002 but it bears repeating. Five separate “how to” sections on collecting oral histories make it a snap!  * The original site is now defunct but you may still access the resources via the Wayback Machine at this link: http://web.archive.org/web/20020102001224/http://www.usu.edu/oralhist/edu.html

Prairie Diaries - NPR
Features diary entries from Kansas residents created for the “A Day in My Community" a historical record of their lives at the beginning of the millennium.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1468140

Southern Oral History Program

Over 2,900 interviews documenting the Civil Rights Movement.

http://www.sohp.org/

Survivors of the Shoah
More than 50,000 eyewitness testimonies in 57 countries and 32 languages from Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
http://www.vhf.org/

The Great Chicago Fire

Eyewitness accounts, newspaper articles and essays on the great conflagration.
http://www.chicagohs.org/fire/index.html

Veterans History Project

Focuses on World War I, World War II, Korean, Vietnam, and Persian Gulf wars.
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/vets/about.html

Voices From the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories

Listen to former slaves describe their lives through interviews conducted between 1932 and 1975.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfshtml/

Voices of Civil Rights

Their goal is to “collect and preserve thousands of firsthand accounts of the Civil Rights Movement as a living memorial .”
http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/voices-of-civil-rights.html

What did you do in the war, Grandma?

Twenty-six interviews with women who served in WW II.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/tocCS.html

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

If you missed any previous Stor e Telling posts the links are below:

2002

January February - Folktales, myths, legends and pourquoi stories from around the world and a few other sites to whet your appetite.
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/stor-e-telling-january-february-2002.html

May June - American Life Histories from the WPA Project, Mayan and Philippine folktale's, public domain tales dating back to the 1880's, seasonal stories of forests, frogs, moons and maidens, solar folklore and more. 
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/following-breadcrumbs-stor-e-telling.html

July August  - Trickster tales, Kenyan folktales, flower fables and participation stories to put some fun in your summer storytelling. 
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/following-breadcrumbs-ii-stor-e-telling.html 

September October – Included is a guide to collecting family folklore, folktales from Britain, Russia, Kashmir, fables from the Panchatantra, Jataka stories, and Native American legends ready to be explored.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/following-breadcrumbs-iii-stor-e.html

November December - Resources for Jack Tales, puppets, ghost stories, educational resources and activities, Australian storytelling, traditions and folklore from the Orkney Islands. For extra fun the Book Hive link will lead you to stories by the amazing Jackie Torrence and other well-known tellers. Next stop, 2003!
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/following-breadcrumbs-iv-stor-e-telling.html

2003

January February - Folktales from Africa and Norway, Borneo myths and legends, ghost stories, storytelling games and resources, and a wee bit more.
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/following-breadcrumbs-v-stor-e-telling.html

March April - Grant resources, improvisational games to add to your storytelling residency, Native American Trickster Tales, information to keep your voice in tip top telling shape and more.

http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/07/following-breadcrumbs-vi-stor-e-telling.html

May June - The theme for the Storytelling Magazine issue was Grant Resources and all the links have been checked. I hope you will find something to help you discover that pot of gold!
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/07/following-breadcrumbs-vii-stor-e.html

July August - Some delightful sites to whet your storytelling appetite. You will find Andrew Lang's colored fairy tales books and more of his works, stories from the Arabian Nights, Hodja tales and more stories about trees than you could ever hope to climb! I hope you find something useful for your work.
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/07/following-breadcrumbs-stor-e-telling.html

September October - You will find a wonderful site that offers stories searchable by continent, country and theme. Also, Legends of Guam, Western Yugar folktales, teaching benchmarks by state, resources to care for your voice and more.
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/08/following-breadcrumbs-ix-stor-e-telling.html

November December - Resources focused on Appalachian Literature, oral history resources, including the StoryCorp project, Legends of Maui (a bit timely since two hurricanes are heading to Hawaii tonight; stay safe everyone) and a few more treats.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/08/following-breadcrumbs-x-stor-e-telling.html




2004

January February - There are Philippines folktales, two oral history resources, stories for a variety of holidays and tales of pirates, boggarts and more.

http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/08/following-breadcrumbs-xi-stor-e-telling.html 

March April - Tibetan, Irish, and Afro-American folktales, a grant planning tutorial, video's featuring some of our best known storytellers, songs for teaching and a wee bit more.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/08/following-breadcrumbs-xii-stor-e.html
 
2007 - 2012

Stor e Telling Columns 2007-2012
All 31 blog posts, along with a brief synopsis for each one, in an easy to access post at the link below.
http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2013/12/stor-e-telling-columns-2007-to-2012.html 

2013

From 1001 Night to 2001 Story Resources – This link will lead to you one blog post with all of my columns from 2013.
http://www.karenchace.blogspot.com/2014/06/from-1001-nights-to-2001-story.html 


Karen Chace 2014 ©
This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.

Wild Things & Warm Memories: Remembering Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are
courtesy of www.arts-wallpaper.com

 "I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do." ~ Maurice Sendak

NPR– Fresh Air Remembers Maurice Sendak - The interviews are a delight. Listen through the years as NPR interviews this amazing man.
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/08/152248901/fresh-air-remembers-author-maurice-sendak

Sadly, the wild rumpus is a bit quieter tonight; Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of “Where the Wild Things Are” died today. The news reports shared that he was an author and illustrator of over 50 books and a frequent collaborator on operas, television programs, films and theaters, but to my family he was so much more. Here is my small tale of our connection to Maurice and the wild things. What's your story?

Like many young boys when my son Christopher was in kindergarten he began to ask for a puppy. I was in college at the time and wasn’t sure if I had the time to care for and train one properly so we hadn’t yet made the decision. And then one day, while standing at the end of our driveway waiting for his school bus, the “decision” came bounding down the road in the guise of a large black lab. Since there was a leash law in town we rarely saw dogs loose in the neighborhood.  I was cautious at first, making sure Christopher stood behind me until I could make sure he was “friend” rather than “foe.”  It turned out he was a huge bundle of lovable mush and Christopher immediately fell head over heels in love with him.  

Every day, for almost a week, the dog reappeared. He had a collar but no name tag. With a bit of investigation we found out he belonged to a neighbor down the road. Even though Christopher had been asking for a puppy, the minute he laid his eyes on Max no puppy could compare. So when the neighbor told us we could keep him that was it! Chris quickly decided to change the dogs name from Bud (short for Budweiser Beer) and without hesitation he picked the name “Max” after the boy in his favorite book, “Where the Wild Things Are.”

Max was with us for twelve more years; a faithful companion to all, a guardian of Christopher, protector of the home, lover of freshly fallen snow and the best frisbee catcher around!  He could also create some of his very own "wild rumpus" whenever storms filled with thunder and lighting would race across the sky. Some nights Max would sleep at the top of the stairs, ready to challenge anyone who might enter the home in the middle of the night and try to make their way upstairs. Other nights, he would be right at the side of Christopher’s bed, making sure he was safe from “the wild things!”

Maurice Sendak's loveable "wild things" came to life for a young boy in a small town twenty years ago in the form of our beloved Max. Sendak was a man who left his mark in the literary world but more importantly, in the hearts and minds of millions of children (and adults) around the globe; certainly a life well-lived. May the wild rumpus he began so many years ago continue in our memories forever.

 “Live your life. Live your life. Live your life.”  ~ Maurice Sendak

Karen Chace 2012 ©

This blog post was researched and compiled by Karen Chace. Permission for private use is granted. Distribution, either electronically or on paper is prohibited without my expressed written permission. For permission please contact me at storybug@aol.com. Of course, if you wish to link to my blog via your website, blog, newsletter, Facebook page or Twitter please feel free to do so; I greatly appreciate your support and personal integrity.