The Issaquah History Museums will premiere eight more video shorts at the Issaquah Depot on Saturday, Jan. 10, starting at 11 AM.
The video shorts are made up of film footage and audio clips from the Oral History Video Project, along with still images and narration.
This event is open to the public; refreshments will be served.
Shorts to be aired include pieces on coal, logging, school, familiar figures around town, and several other topics.
The history shorts were created in partnership with TV 21/61, Issaquah’s local cable station.
Each video short features first hand recollection accompanied by still images; video subjects participating in Issaquah’s Oral History Video Project. Videographer and film editor Lainy Bagwell combined video footage and audio clips with still images and narration to create film shorts around the projects’ recurring themes.
These history shorts will air as brief segments on Issaquah’s cable station, TV21/61.
In 2006, the Issaquah History Museums launched a campaign to preserve the oral history of Issaquah.
Funding from 4Culture, the Kiwanis Club of Issaquah, and area donors made it possible to hire professionals to conduct the interviews and transcription.
Oral historian Maria McLeod interviewed 25 long-time residents of Issaquah.
The interviews are filled with amazing stories and deeply personal memories that inform and improve our perspective on the community’s history.
Each interview had a different tone and character; they captured memories of mining, logging, farming, and living in a small town.
The interviews addressed events from 1920 up to the 1990s.
These recorded interviews were transcribed by Penny Miller.
Interview transcriptions will soon be available in the research center at the Gilman Town Hall.
Text from the interviews will also be available on the museums’ web site, and will be used in future exhibits, publications, and research.
For more information about the Issaquah History Museums or this project, contact Erica Maniez at the Gilman Town Hall Museum, phone: 425-392-3500, e-mail: info@issaquahhistory.org.
