HCG Participates in CSU Oral History Focused on the Cleveland Cultural Gardens
by Lél F. Somogyi
CSU's Department of History has a project underway to expand the information it has about the history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Along with representatives from other communities, I was invited to participate on behalf of the Hungarian Cultural Garden.
You can hear the full 54 minute interview here
Eventually you will be able to find all or part of the interview on the www.culturalgardens.org website as well.
According to Erin Bell, the Project Coordinator and Archivist at the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University, in email preceeding the interview, "We are ready to conduct a new round of oral history interviews with the folks from the Cultural Gardens Federation, as well as with other community members who have been or continue to be involved in specific gardens."
The interviews were recorded in sound studios on the CSU campus by trained oral history specialists. They will be published to CSU's digital archives for the benefit of students and researchers. Additionally, highlights from each interview will be edited and posted on the Cultural Gardens website to add to that rich community resource.
Bell noted that Professor Mark Tebeau of CSU's Department of History has been interested in the Cultural Gardens for several years now and has collected dozens of oral history interviews on the subject, producing an excellent website at www.culturalgardens.org, which features historical descriptions, archival images and oral history audio for individual gardens.
The goal of this most recent work is supplement the audio record that is lacking for many of the Gardens.
CSU's Department of History has a project underway to expand the information it has about the history of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Along with representatives from other communities, I was invited to participate on behalf of the Hungarian Cultural Garden.
You can hear the full 54 minute interview here
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Eventually you will be able to find all or part of the interview on the www.culturalgardens.org website as well.
According to Erin Bell, the Project Coordinator and Archivist at the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University, in email preceeding the interview, "We are ready to conduct a new round of oral history interviews with the folks from the Cultural Gardens Federation, as well as with other community members who have been or continue to be involved in specific gardens."
The interviews were recorded in sound studios on the CSU campus by trained oral history specialists. They will be published to CSU's digital archives for the benefit of students and researchers. Additionally, highlights from each interview will be edited and posted on the Cultural Gardens website to add to that rich community resource.
Bell noted that Professor Mark Tebeau of CSU's Department of History has been interested in the Cultural Gardens for several years now and has collected dozens of oral history interviews on the subject, producing an excellent website at www.culturalgardens.org, which features historical descriptions, archival images and oral history audio for individual gardens.
The goal of this most recent work is supplement the audio record that is lacking for many of the Gardens.
What a treasure! As a child growing up in the middle of the Hungarian community, we would make a day out of going to the gardens as well as Wade Park. Our interest was twofold as my father had worked on the "garden project", as he referred to it. After the start of the war, we moved away from Cleveland and lost track of many of my school mates and neighborhood friends. However, I look forward to returning this summer and will make a day of renewing fond memories. Thanks to everyone who took part in renewing this treasure. Larry
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