Monday, April 14, 2014

Mushy in the Family History Dept.


The Grandpa that married his cousin. I love the scandal!
 For April it is a bit of a stall for family history. I found out I can get Ancestry free in June. I probably will binge watch their YouTube site.  I have picked up scrapbooking for this month.  I feel like a throwback Thursday, but all of my pictures are already on my blog.  I may have to do some from my childhood scrapbook this month. I should start with two pictures since I have missed the first two weeks.

I guess I have a plug for Storycorps.  I finally got a podcast app and have been binge consuming podcasts that I’ve always wanted to follow.  I have learned a great many random facts, it’s my hobby after all, and I remembered that they had StoryCorps on NPR as a podcast.  StoryCorps is a recording of oral traditions and lives of everyday people. It is then archived in Washington DC.  They have three permanent bases in the country, one in Atlanta, and a moving studio throughout the country recording in rural and other areas. I would love to do this, but the people I want to archive don’t live in Atlanta or come to visit me.  I did think about Daniel and I could interview each other, but I have a recording of us talking about how we met and what that was like for us feeling like we were outside of our cultural norm. I do have a friend who is big advocate for breastfeeding and is helping with legislation in Georgia. That could be interesting, but I also heard about Florence Williams book about our least researched, fascinating, miraculous organ…breasts. It could be that it is just on my mind.  Most people are interesting to me, but I suppose I want to interview someone who thinks their interesting and open to bizarre questions.  Most the time when I interview older people I ask inappropriate questions about sex because I think the cultural shift in that area has been so huge in the last fifty years and what hasn’t really changed from the different historical views on sex.  Can you tell I took a History of Sex class in college? This could be something to add to my resolution.

1 comment:

Jody said...

YAY Scrapbooking! And I had no idea you took a history of sex class in college. I would totally be interested in that class but probably too prudish to take it.