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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Alexandria Oral Histories

http://oha.alexandriava.gov/oha-main/oha-legacieshome.html 
The Alexandria Oral History Program -- Alexandria Legacies was developed through the City of Alexandria’s Office of Historic Alexandria in the early 1980s. T. Michael Miller, Research Historian for the Office of Historic Alexandria saw the connection of oral and written history, and was instrumental in conducting numerous taped interviews with long-time residents and promoting the concept. Since then, the City of Alexandria, through the Alexandria Archaeology Museum, the Lyceum and the Alexandria Black History Museum has collected oral histories of long-time Alexandria residents.