How This Blog Came To Be

On June 1, 2005, a group of volunteer interviewers at the North Shore Senior Center in the Chicago suburb of Northfield were having lunch and commenced to exchange helpful interviewing hints and regale each other with tales from the oral history interviewing front. This face-to-face exchange of shop talk was so valuable that someone suggested we ought to do this more often. That's when I opened my big mouth and declared, "We need a blog." Someone responded, "What's a blog?"

Well, this is a blog. It's a collection of information, called "posts" in blogspeak, that is accessible to anyone with a computer and access to the internet. To keep it simple, and to maintain some semblance of order, I have volunteered to edit the posts and maintain this thing.

But its success depends upon your input. If you have something to contribute, send your post to me by email, and I will see that it is added to the blog. In the meantime, spread the word to other oral historians you might meet and invite them to participate. The more the merrier.

-- Chuck Bartling, Evanston, Illinois