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Thread #94797 Message #1837664
Posted By: Desert Dancer
18-Sep-06 - 04:09 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: SW mining stories being collected
Subject: Folklore: SW U.S. mining stories being collected
A new project from the University of Arizona (my employer, though not my department) is collecting stories from miners and mining communities in the southwest U.S. (sorry, didn't get the U.S. in the subject line).
They've got some stories available online already: Miners Story Project. One of them, the First Woman Truckdriver, was run on the local (UA-based) public radio station. It was well-done.