Collections

Logo for Craft Beverage Memory Project

The Cayuga and Seneca Lakes Agriculture and Craft Beverage Memory Project is a two-year oral history project. The interviews document and preserve the personal stories of wine, cider, beer and other beverage producers between Cayuga and Seneca Lakes. The project was created by The Edith B.

Chittenango Oral History Collection

This collection includes oral history videos conducted as a special project by Diana Cashman’s 5th-grade students at Chittenango Middle School.

Clarkson University COVID-19 Interviews

Students in Professor Laura Ettinger's History of Public Health in America course conducted audio interviews with relatives and friends about how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their lives so that people in the future can learn about what it was like to live in 2020 and 2021.

Shakira Santos at her Interview

Interviews at La Casita Cultural Center in Syracuse, New York for WSYR's Christie Casciano in the fall of 2021. Part of a special program commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month.

COVID Memory Project of Chemung County

Oral histories of Chemung County residents describing their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic and related events.

Freeport Oral Histories

Oral histories from Freeport, NY

New York Heritage Logo in Greyscale

Oral history interviews that document the immigrant experiences of Hudson Valley residents and their families.

Logo in Armenian and Latin script

Survive, Remember, Thrive | Armenian Traditions in Western New York preserves the traditions, memories, and stories of the local Armenian community through this audio interview collection and the original shortform documentary video series produced by the Castellani Art Museum of Niagara Universi

Tides of Time: Memories and Voices of Quogue

Audio interviews with residents of the Village of Quogue

Screenshot of a Zoom meeting with Danielle Bergan

Oral histories documenting African-American, LGBTQ+, and other underrepresented communities in Cayuga County.

Helen Sunderlin, interviewee

Oral histories from Chemung County, covering topics like the 1972 flood, neighborhoods, Finnish immigrants, labor history, and others.