October is not only National Information Literacy Awareness Month, but it’s also National Arts and Humanities Month. Kansas Humanities has really been the only agency I’ve seen doing much to celebrate, but I appreciate their efforts.
This week they are shouting out SAVE A STORY. Stories are important things. They are how people learn. They are how people connect. They are how people make sense of the world. As the late Tom Clancy wrote in Debt of Honor: “If you don’t write it down, it never happened.” So write it down:
Don’t know how? Find the basics of Oral History here:
Sarah S. Uthoff is main force behind Trundlebed Tales fighting to bring the History, Mystery, Magic and Imagination of Laura Ingalls Wilder and other greats of children’s literature and history to life for a new generation.Attend one of her programs, schedule one yourself, watch her videos, listen to her podcast, and find her on Facebook, Twitter, Google+,LinkedIn, and Academia.edu. She is currently acting President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Professionally she is a reference librarian at Kirkwood Community College and director of the Oxford (Iowa) Public Library.