Collections

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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.

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.

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

Montauk Oral History Interviews
Interviews from the collection of the Montauk Library, Montauk, NY
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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 C

Tides of Time: Memories and Voices of Quogue

Audio interviews with residents of the Village of Quogue

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