Have You Heard? | Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley

Have you heard...

...Rondout Valley's Sounds and Stories?

Accessing Old Stories with New Technologies

A joint project of the Stone Ridge Library and The Sound and Story Project

Celebrating the Stories of the Rondout Valley
The Sound and Story Project is committed to finding lost stories and collecting those that are continuously being heard to facilitate this community's sense of shared memory. "Have You Heard?' attempts to bridge the gap between a forgotten past and the ever changing present. You can participate in the process by listening to and sharing your own stories.

Giving New Life to Old Stories

In the early 1980s, Jane McClure intiated the Rondout Valley Folklore Project. Over 50 local residents were recorded describing a time long since forgotten; a time when your bakcyard was your grocery store and horses populated the roads instead of cars. The Sound and Story Project has produced short audio clips from these original recordings.

You can listen to them here or on the Stone Ridge Library website.

Library Story Booth Rediscover the Rondout Valley through old stories and sounds and add to them with your own stories. The Sound and Story Project wants to record your story at the Library Story Booth, located at the Stone Ridge Library. A trained facilitator will be there on Mondays in July and August, 11:00am- 1:00pm. Bring a friend, family member, or come on your own. Participants will receive a free CD of their interview. Call 845-687-8726 to reserve a space. Eileen McAdam of the Sound and Story Project recording Fran Ryder at the Stone Ridge Library.
	An Evening of Listening Join us on August 21, 2009 at 7:00pm at the Marbletown Community Center. Spend the evening with your community listening to stories and sharing your own. Pulse of the Planet's Jim Metzner and Sound and Story Project director Eileen McAdam will play old and new sounds and stories from the Rondout Valley. The night promises to produce a tapestry of tales.
Story of the Week You can listen to stories here or on the Stone Ridge Library website. You can also read a story in the Blue Stone Press compiled from an interview recorded by the Rondout Valley Folklore Project in the 1980s.

If you can identify any of the people are places in these photographs please contact us.

This project was supported in part by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. "Have you Heard?" is a joint project of the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley and the Stone Ridge Library in celebration of the Library's 100-year anniversary.