Community Digital History: Podcasts

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The Trefry Archives is proud to present a new archival collection available through its online exhibits site. As part of a new community history project to document and collect items and stories related to the area to help preserve it's rich history, the Archives has been collecting podcasts related to Jefferson County, West Virginia, where APUS is headquartered.

The project serves many purposes. Primarily it is to preserve the voices and stories of local residents from the recent past. It is important that these voices are collected and maintained now so that future generations can understand and learn from them.

The collection consists of 22 different podcasts and 34 total episodes from those podcasts. These represent a diverse cross-section of Jefferson County touching upon politics and history, local businesses and organizations, art and recreation, pottery and gardening, etc. The collection also shows the many different types of podcasts that there are. The interview style, recordings of live events, or just friends sitting around talking.

The podcasts in the collection highlight life in Jefferson County. They include Summit Point poet Steve Scafidi reading his poetry and interviews with Shepherdstown comic artist Danielle Corsetto. Local businesses have been producing podcasts such as Two River Treads in Ranson, a running store who interviews runners from around the area, and Friends That Carry On, a travel podcast by the travel company of the same name based out of Shepherdstown. Charles Town's Bob O'Connor produced a long running podcast on the Civil War, Chronicles of the Civil War, and his episodes that dealt with local history are represented here. Other aspects of local history particularly dealing with Harpers Ferry and John Brown's raid are covered by the West Virginia based podcast, The Wild and Wonderful Podcast. In addition, there are podcasts that take listeners inside some of the area's recreational offerings such as the Summit Point Motorsports Park and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races. The collection includes paranormal tales of the area from the story of Middleway's the legend of the Wizard Clip to ghost activity in Shepherdstown.

Nearly all of those podcasts that have been preserved we have received permission from the creators to preserve and make publicly available through our collections site. For those we did not hear back from, a preservation copy has still been maintained by the Archives but not being made publicly available. A link has been provided to where you can find a copy of the podcast online.

This is an active and growing collection and new podcasts and episodes of current podcasts will be preserved as they are either created or discovered.