Manchester Senior Citizen Oral Histories

["Ashley Schannauer" <schannauer@info-ren.org>]

The oral histories project for Manchester senior citizens represents the
kind of Internet project that can benefit Pittsburgh neighborhoods and be
facilitated by the I-Net.  We hope you can attend the public unveiling at a
reception Tuesday night from 7-8 pm at the Pennsylvania Bidwell High Rise.

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To demonstrate the role that Internet technology can play in a community,
Information Renaissance, in collaboration with the Carnegie Library of
Pittsburgh, this week unveils an Oral History project undertaken with the
residents of the Pennsylvania Bidwell High Rise in Manchester.  The
unveiling, which is open to the public, will take place at the High Rise at
1014 Sheffield Street, from 7 till 8 pm on Tuesday July 27, 1999.

A community -- whether a senior high rise or a neighborhood -- is rich in
"links" that connect its residents to one another, to the place where they
live and that connect the past to the present.  That's what makes it a
natural fit for the Internet.

Ms. Gloria Blake, Ms. Cleo Dunn, Ms. Charlotte Egleston, Ms. Maggie Johnson,
Mr. James Lee and Mr. Clyde Wright, participants in the project, will be
acknowledged for their contributions to the online presentation of
Pittsburgh and American history through the medium of their lives.

Mr. Herbert Elish, Director, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and Dr. E.J.
Josey, Professor Emeritus, School of Library and Information Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh, will address the residents of Pennsylvania
Bidwell.  Mr. Barry Chad, Assistant Head, Pennsylvania Department, Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh, will present selected screens and audio clips from
the online Oral History project.  Ms. Lucille Shorter, Vice President of the
High Rise Tenant Council, will introduce the speakers.

The oral histories can be previewed at www.info-ren.org/oral-histories/