Category
Oral History
How to Conduct an Oral-History Interview: A Practical Guide
A practical walkthrough of running an oral-history interview — from consent and warm-up through the questions that actually draw out a real memory, and how to close well.
How to Tell a Story Around a Campfire: Pacing, Pauses, and Presence
What makes an oral telling land around a fire — reading the group, using silence deliberately, and pacing a story for a live audience rather than a page.
Interviewing an Elderly Relative: Consent, Equipment, and a Ladder of Questions
Family oral history has its own risks and its own rhythm — a gentler time budget, equipment that gets out of the way, and a question ladder that climbs up before it climbs back down.
What Traditional Storytellers Actually Memorize (It Isn't the Words)
The method of loci, chunking, and a worked rehearsal routine that uses the site's five-beat campfire arc as a ready-made memory scaffold.