Recording of Your Family's History
Item Number: 438
Time Left: CLOSED
Description
Invite someone in your family to share their memories in a professional interview conducted by Gregory Sharrow, Co-Director and Folklorist, at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury.
Walk away with "Memories to Hand Down", a digital record of your family history - an heirloom to be passed on to future generations.
The interview will be held in the Vermont Folklife Center sound studio in Middlebury.
Special Instructions
Gregory L. Sharrow, Co-Director and Folklorist
info@vermontfolklifecenter.org
Greg Sharrow serves as the VFC's Co-Director and Director of Education. Sharrow brings to the Center a history of academic excellence and years of teaching experience. He holds a BA from Oberlin College, a MEd from UVM and has his PhD in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. Sharrow taught at the Braintree School in the Orange Southwest Supervisory Union (Vermont) for several years and was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year for that district in 1983. He was also appointed as the Mellon Graduate Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for the 1987-88 Academic Year. His current research interests include the interplay of folklife and personal identity and the role that culture plays in our construction of self.