Collections

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.

A collection of oral histories and recordings done and collected by Dr. George Hucker.

Recorded firsthand accounts of life in Glen Cove

Interviews conducted in the 1970s and 80s on Somers history topics spanning nearly 150 years.

Military Memories & Veterans' Voices was a program held at the Library on December 3rd, 2017. The collection consists of five oral histories and photographs.

Oral interviews documenting the changing landscape of Rockland County.

Oral histories collected from 20th century Lockport, NY, residents

Oral history interviews detailing life in Ulster County, N.Y.

This collection features a sampling of 1-2 minute audio clips detailing every day life in the Hudson Valley.

Oral histories and papers from student projects.

Oral histories of long-time Upper Nyack residents.

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

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