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to some - - interesting . feaults. Example? Old days versus 2000 versus best guess on the Year 2100. This technique usually requires some interviewing experience, plus the use of quality recording equipment if the tapes are to be preserved in an archive. There is also the problem of transcribing the results, a time consuming matter. Much guidance is available on the Internet from the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University in Texas (search on “baylor oral history”) on this technique. Finally, videotaping is a unique means of recording what people and organizations are doing and their observations on things. If you or your family has a camcorder, you can play the role of writer, producer, director, and actor in a mini-movie on the county. Examples might include country life, fishing, nature, children, story telling, or any other topic that gives a flavor to what it is like to be living in Rappahannock in the Year 2000. The same could be carried put by classes in the school system by 5-10 second shots of a typical day, the school environment; the recording of things they wished they had film of for a school day back in, say, the 1850s. OrganizatiPns in the county could pffl together a videotaped story based on what their organization does: a typical day, video interviews with their staff or membership, a meeting, office or sites the organization is interested in, a
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