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Oral Histories Of The Silver Valley In Northern Idaho, Bobbie-Jo Stepro Bighill
Oral Histories Of The Silver Valley In Northern Idaho, Bobbie-Jo Stepro Bighill
IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects
The purpose of my capstone project is to preserve the oral histories of the people who grew up in the Silver Valley of Northern Idaho. It was once an area known as the Silver Capital of the world. More Silver was produced in the small towns in this area nestled between the Connection of Highway 3 and the Montana border on I-90. It earned its name as the Silver Capital of the world before most of the mines closed in the 1980s. At that time, they had produced more Silver than anywhere else in the world. Now there are several …
Storyteller: They Speak, I Listen, Sara M. V. Garcia
Storyteller: They Speak, I Listen, Sara M. V. Garcia
IPS/BAS 495 Undergraduate Capstone Projects
Since February of 2022, I have been an intern working at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho. Throughout the museum, there are books and binders everywhere that feature individual stories from veterans of World War I, World War II, the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and even stories from Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. As an intern, I was able to make these binders and put them together. I was given letters, photos, documents, journals and more and it feels like these veterans are talking to me and telling me their stories. I would not have known …