Black River Voices is a semester-long course at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. During the fall of 2007, we will consider the intersection of story, place, and history in the Black River Valley of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom by looking at local history and using oral histories to start a conversation with people in our region.
Join us as we explore the voices and places of our watershed.
Homeschooling in Rural Northern Vermont
Grey Skies and Pumpkin Pies: Interviews in Craftsbury
The Black River Valley
[Google Earth Installation required]
How do we define place?
Is through our perception? Our engagement with it? Our interaction with community?
Black River Voices is an attempt to explore possible answers to these questions through the stories of the region's residents and the community memories such stories can provide.
The class interviews, braided voices of students and neighbors, or time and place and people, are the components of an emergent digital web. The Black River Voices audio archive is a dynamic document, a confluence of past and present in which we are tributary sources to a larger story, a river of voices that arcs through Craftsbury and draws us, finally, north.
Please use the links on the left to navigate through the transcripts and audio files of the individual interviews.
Students: Cashea Arrington, Maria Evans, Crystal Hoyt, Troy Janusz, Nina LaPorta, Ben Matthews, Josh Parker, Jack Powell
Faculty: Pavel Cenkl and Julia Shipley
For more information about Black River Voices, please email Pavel at pcenkl [at] sterlingcollege [dot] edu
Appreciations
We would like to appreciate the following folks for helping to make Black River Voices a success:
David Link and the Craftsbury Historical Society
The Craftsbury Care Center, Craftsbury, VT
GRACE: Grass Roots Art and Community Effort, Harwick, VT
The Meeting Place, Newport, VT
John Miller, author of (among other books) Deer Camp and Granite and Cedar
Ethan Darling, Director of Web & Print Publications at Sterling College
Jennifer Burton
