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County Library by Kathleen Duffy

0 - Oral History Oral history is family history in the guise of stories. "Our photo albums, attic trunks, even our memories can hold only so much. Aunt Ida's fading wedding photo or a pair of unused tickets for the fateful voyage of the Titanic may be all that remain of whole generations in a family 'From countless incidents. families choose a few stories to pass on the funniest or perhai* the most telling." From garb: ed baby talk comer family nicknames and offer fami ly expressions "But these time-honored images do more than recall scattered people and events ; they come to represent the unremembered past, the sum total of a family's heritage • FOR EVERY fan%s literary or photographicwork there are a hundred thousand stories and snap^ shots in which Americans have invested a large portion of their creative genius. Family tradition is one of the great repositories of American culture. "For an individual family, folklore is its creative expression of a common past. As raw experiences are transformed into family stories, expressions and photos, they are codified into forms which can be easily recalled, retold, and enjoyed. "A FAMILY'S folklore differs from its historys Its stories, photographs and traditions are personalized and often creative distilla tions of experience, worked and reworked over time. When a family tells of that glorious moment when a relative just missed sailing on the Titanic or a great-grandmother held off a band of outlaws, or a

grandfather tricked a border guard on his departure from the old country, the lore is precisely that . a glorious moment carefully selected and elaborated through the years, tailored to the demands of the present. Even photographs are not unbiased slices of life." METHODS OF collecting your family folklore and history are described in several publications, found at the Cape May County Library A Celebration of American Folklore (398.27C) bv Steven J Zeitlin. Amy J Kotkin and Holly Cutting Barker, is en joyable reading as well as encouragement and incen tive to begin capturing your own family folklore The quotes used in this article were taken from the introduction of this different and fascinating book. A large portion of the .book contains family stories from the Smithsonians collection telling about family heroes, rogues, survivors, innocents, courtships, family feuds, supernatural happenings and an uniquely American recurrence in folklore — the lo6t family fortune. A brief example to show the marvelous humor and stories found within this delight book : ON THE JOB TRAINING "My grandfather had been an apprentice shoemaker in Latvia. He sewed the upper part of the shoe to the sole and he decided that was the logical job for him to do after he got here. "So he took a bag lunch and went out in search of work. The first place he went to was a walk-up where each flat was a different factory. "HE WENT to the first one and they said, 'Have you any experience with electrical equipment?' And he said 'sure, sure'. He had never seen an electrical machine before. "So he starts sewing with this thing and it goes wild. He ruins one shoe and he ruins two shoes and he ruins three and he stuffs them in his lunch bag and gets out of there in a hurry. "Then he goes to the second floor, another factory, and he pulls the trick again. And then the third floor. Each time he goes out on the street and dumps out his wasted shoes. "BY THE TIME he got to the fourth floor he was an expert, and he got the job "I like the story because it says something about on the job training and about having a little bit of gall in getting a job."

Workshop On Breast Cancer SOMERS POINT - The American Cancer Society will present a breast cancer check workshop for women 7-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24. at Shore Memorial Hospital. The workshop, which is sponsored by the Shore Memorial Hospial Wellness office, will include a film, demonstration and a talkl. For further information, or to register call the Wellness office at 653-4500

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