Grandma Brown discusses World War II in her own experience as a young girl from its beginning (at age 12) to the end (at age 18).
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Starting to dig deeper
Grandma Brown - Recorded 12-11-11
Jaimie had an assignment that required her to interview a grandparent, and so we ran over to Grandma Brown's. Jaimie had a list of a few questions she could ask, but we didn't get through many of them in the 45 minutes we spent there.
Armed with nothing more than this laptop and Jaimie's iPod, we recorded the whole interview and I transcribed as best I could what Grandma said. Now I'm not a professional transcriber and the iPod isn't the clearest recorder, but it was a good start.
We're planning on visiting about once a week, unless there are difficult circumstances. I'll upload the transcript and the recording each time, and maybe put a few words about what we learned.
For now, I suppose the most surprising thing about today was learning how many of Grandma's close relatives died in her childhood. From her Aunt Lilly to Aunt Mina's husband who died from Pneumonia because they didn't have penicillin.
I can't claim it's incredibly interesting, but I suppose there may be a few people that will take the time to enjoy it. If not, that's fine. At least I'll have it recorded somewhere.
I'm hoping to eventually make this a podcast in hopes that I might bring my family into the 21st century, but for now I'll include a link to the audio file and transcript:
audio file
transcript (roughly)
To subscribe to the podcast, visit the feedburner site here
Or to add this to iTunes, click here
Jaimie had an assignment that required her to interview a grandparent, and so we ran over to Grandma Brown's. Jaimie had a list of a few questions she could ask, but we didn't get through many of them in the 45 minutes we spent there.
Armed with nothing more than this laptop and Jaimie's iPod, we recorded the whole interview and I transcribed as best I could what Grandma said. Now I'm not a professional transcriber and the iPod isn't the clearest recorder, but it was a good start.
We're planning on visiting about once a week, unless there are difficult circumstances. I'll upload the transcript and the recording each time, and maybe put a few words about what we learned.
For now, I suppose the most surprising thing about today was learning how many of Grandma's close relatives died in her childhood. From her Aunt Lilly to Aunt Mina's husband who died from Pneumonia because they didn't have penicillin.
I can't claim it's incredibly interesting, but I suppose there may be a few people that will take the time to enjoy it. If not, that's fine. At least I'll have it recorded somewhere.
I'm hoping to eventually make this a podcast in hopes that I might bring my family into the 21st century, but for now I'll include a link to the audio file and transcript:
audio file
transcript (roughly)
To subscribe to the podcast, visit the feedburner site here
Or to add this to iTunes, click here
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