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Life Preservers: A Podcast About Personal History Life Preservers: A Podcast About Personal History
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Are you interested in preserving personal or family history? Are you seeking ways to share your stories and memories? Do you want to know how to create a correspondence with future generations? Each episode of Life Preservers will help answer these questions and pique your imagination. Through a mix of interviews, tips & tricks, and resource recommendations this podcast can help you embark on the journey of creating and preserving your legacy and the legacies of people you love.
Life Preservers is brought to you by Pam Pacelli Cooper and Rob Cooper of Verissima Productions, experienced personal historians and documentary video producers who have been preserving as many lives as they can for the past 15 years.
Learn more about them and their work at verissima.com
You can also subscribe to their monthly Life Preservers newsletter at: http://bit.ly/SubscribeVPN
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Preserving Family Stories
If you’re gathering with family this holiday season, there is likely to be discussion about what to do with those old cassette tapes of grandma telling family stories, or whether to keep the VHS tapes of your college graduation. We think this podcast, originally published in December of 2016 will provide valuable information and help in making those important decisions.
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Histories from a Historian
What was the unlikely alliance between mill girls and factory overseers? Did the immigrants of the 19th century just melt easily into American culture? Labor historian Bob Forrant of UMass Lowell begins this season of storytelling and listening with some stories of his own.
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Life Preservers: October Podcast | Privies, Prostitutes, and Personal History Part II
What happened to the women of 29 Endicott Street? See Part 2 of our conversation with Jade Luiz, archaeologist ,”Privies, Prostitutes and Personal History.”
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Life Preservers: October Podcast | Privies, Prostitutes, and Personal History
Prostitutes in 19th century Boston? Women-owned businesses or “soiled doves?” Or both?
Join Archaeologist and historian Jade Luiz as we explore what can be learned about these women from a combination of archaeological artifacts and genealogical research.
Podcast Part I: Who were they? -
Salem Surprise: Myth Busting about the Witch Trials – Life Preservers Podcast: Episode 13
Interview with Lori Stokes, Scholar
Books about Salem:
“ A Storm of Witchcraft” by Emerson Baker
“ Entertaining Satan,” by John Putnam Demos
Excellent app by Emerson Baker and others on itunes: The Salem Witch Trials
The Puritans were more exciting than you think:
John Winthrop’s journal: Available from many different sources, including Google Books
The Hidden Histories project of the Congregational Library.
A tour of Puritan Boston: GREAT app. Virtual or real walking tour with loads of information about a fascinating people!
New England Beginnings: A partnership of organizations to promote and commemorate the cultures that shaped early New England. ALL cultures. Designed to tell the stories and enhance accessibility to us all. -
Stories in the Walls: The Actor's Temple of New York City
How many of these names do you recognize as famous entertainers?
These are their given names and many of them appear on the Memorial plaques at The Actor’s Temple. If you don’t know, Google them to find out:
Benjamin Kubelsky
Aaron Chwatt
Sonya Kalish
Edward Israel Iskowitz
Shirley Schrift
Mendel Berlinger
Mechel Saltpeter
For more stories of how refugees survived in New York City After the Second World War, read William Helmreich’s book:
Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
Show Notes:
Rabbi Jill talks about the Temple’s connection to Fountain House. See some of their outreach work here: www.fountainhouse.org
To Contact The Actor’s Temple and Rabbi Jill Hausman
http://www.theactorstemple.org/