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PLACE: During 2008, the cities Cauthen visits for signing/speaking engagements (or cities nearby). Please see Events for a current list of cities and dates and feel free to inquire further.

TIME: The ideal situation for this seminar is a weekday evening, 7:00 – 9:30 p.m. It requires a minimum of ten and a maximum of twenty participants.

COST: $50 per person.

ORGANIZATION: Lecture, Break, Discussion, Summation.

GOALS:Participants come away seeing the collecting of oral history within the larger tradition, i.e., Federal Writers Program, WPA, etc. We will look at Folklife, Work, and Connections to Place, Learn oral history’s unique contribution to the Humanities, Review the specifics of Ethics, Recording, Transcription, Interviewing, Editing, Storage, and Use.

TESTIMONIALS (for SOUTHERN COMFORTS):

"Oral history has seldom been used so effectively to evoke a past, a present, and a future of a very special place on earth."

- Peggy Bulger, Director, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

"With SOUTHERN COMFORTS Cauthen has created a tour de force."

- Nick Wynne, Executive Director of the Florida Historical Society

(For a partial list of PAST CLIENTS, see Speaking & Mentoring)

To discuss the possibility of a seminar tailored to your audience, please email
cauthen4196@earthlink.net or call 386-397-1284.

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