2012 JANUARY Happy New Year!
STORY CORPS
Never heard of it ? Neither had I until my diughter Laura Barrow called to proposition me to be interviewed by her for this national non profit oral history project. Since 2003 more than 30,000 interviews have been collected form all over the U.S. to be preserved at the American Folk Life Center in the Library of Congress.
Story Corps' mobile taping booth is in Austin, TX for this month. So Laura and I made an appointment and went to the Bob Bullock State Museum where the Story Corps sound proof, state of the art recording booth is located in a tiny air stream trailer. For 40 minutes I answered her questions about growing up in Austin during World War II and about advice I might pass on to my grandchildren that included marriage, family, God and country. She directed and I rambled.
Our photograph was taken by one of the two Story Corps staff persons and we were given a C.D. like the one to be archived in the Library of Congress. It was fun, painless and a really good experience to share with Laura and to preserve for our future off springs.
Go to their website www.storycorps.org to learn more and hear interviews by other twosomes. Be sure to use the plural "storycorps.org". There is a website for Story Corp (singular) which is something else. Also stories are broadcast every Friday on NPR's "Morning Edition". KUT FM may air it in the afternoon...not sure.
ART EVENTS
BLANTON MUSEUM's ehibition, EL ANATSUI: WHEN I LAST WROTE TO YOU FROM AFRICA is not to be missed and it closes on the 22nd of THIS month. Charles went a second time with two of our grandchildren, ages 7 and 11 and thely loved it.
Austin artist GINGER GEYER has been living at the Fairmont Hotel and working for the last 3 months on her show that opened January 7th at the Ross Akard Gallery. Her ceramic pieces are executed with exceptional skill and they always make me laugh.
Check out the programs and exhibitions planned at info@AMOA-arthouse.org. The website is for the two recently merged Austin art museums, AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART-ARTHOUSE downtown at 700 Congress Ave. and AMOA-LAGUNA GLORIA on the lake at the end of West 35th Street.
Never heard of it ? Neither had I until my diughter Laura Barrow called to proposition me to be interviewed by her for this national non profit oral history project. Since 2003 more than 30,000 interviews have been collected form all over the U.S. to be preserved at the American Folk Life Center in the Library of Congress.
Story Corps' mobile taping booth is in Austin, TX for this month. So Laura and I made an appointment and went to the Bob Bullock State Museum where the Story Corps sound proof, state of the art recording booth is located in a tiny air stream trailer. For 40 minutes I answered her questions about growing up in Austin during World War II and about advice I might pass on to my grandchildren that included marriage, family, God and country. She directed and I rambled.
Our photograph was taken by one of the two Story Corps staff persons and we were given a C.D. like the one to be archived in the Library of Congress. It was fun, painless and a really good experience to share with Laura and to preserve for our future off springs.
Go to their website www.storycorps.org to learn more and hear interviews by other twosomes. Be sure to use the plural "storycorps.org". There is a website for Story Corp (singular) which is something else. Also stories are broadcast every Friday on NPR's "Morning Edition". KUT FM may air it in the afternoon...not sure.
ART EVENTS
BLANTON MUSEUM's ehibition, EL ANATSUI: WHEN I LAST WROTE TO YOU FROM AFRICA is not to be missed and it closes on the 22nd of THIS month. Charles went a second time with two of our grandchildren, ages 7 and 11 and thely loved it.
Austin artist GINGER GEYER has been living at the Fairmont Hotel and working for the last 3 months on her show that opened January 7th at the Ross Akard Gallery. Her ceramic pieces are executed with exceptional skill and they always make me laugh.
Check out the programs and exhibitions planned at info@AMOA-arthouse.org. The website is for the two recently merged Austin art museums, AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART-ARTHOUSE downtown at 700 Congress Ave. and AMOA-LAGUNA GLORIA on the lake at the end of West 35th Street.
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