Story at the Center An Oral History Website on Catoctin Quaker Camp

Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Clark, Maribeth

Keywords

Oral History, Website, Quaker Summer Camp

Area of Concentration

General Studies

Abstract

This thesis takes the form of a website. The site, which can be found at www.cqcoralhistory.org, or in the source files on the accompanying CD presents a model for exhibiting oral history materials in a modernized, user-friendly format. The project documents the memories of different members of the Catoctin Quaker Camp community from the past fifty years. Almost 200 short audio stories were edited from twenty-three oral history interviews. Half of these stories appear on the "stories" page and are organized by narrator. The other half appear on an interactive map of the camp and are associated with different sites on the map. This accompanying document traces the development of oral history, pointing at the limitations posed by the placement of the methodology into the discipline of history. It identifies several reasons why the website would not qualify as academic oral history by the Oral History Association�s current standards, and makes suggestions for liberating the methodology from the analytical necessities of the social sciences. Through combining elements of digital storytelling and oral history, this thesis proposes a new model for an engaging, far-reaching, and public end-product for academic oral history projects.

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