The SCHR has launched an Oral History initiative with a two-fold objective.

First, the team is selecting a sampling of existing oral narratives from several local history organizations. These narratives will be placed on the Saratoga Springs Public Library website through the Saratoga Room. During this stage volunteers will digitize the recordings and screen the interviews

to capture the information (metadata) necessary to make the files accessible via search engines.

In the second stage of the initiative we will be creating new oral narratives of local residents with stories to tell.

Anyone interested in the digitization process, training to become an interviewer, or are willing to be interviewed, please contact a member of the Oral History Team:

              Lori Wies, SSPL – Saratoga Room Director

              Ann Clothier, Brookside Museum Education Director

              Lauren Roberts, Saratoga County Historian

              Mary Ann Fitzgerald, Saratoga Springs City Historian

              Bart Klion, Rutgers University Oral History Program, retired

              Trevor Oakley, Saratoga Springs Public Library

              Roy Arnold, Brookside Museum volunteer

              Jim Richmond, SCHR coordinator