Roots with Wings, a Floyd County Place-Based Education Project:: Intergenerational Connections

Floyd Story Center

Since 1998, a community oral history collection partnership of the Old Church Gallery, Ltd., Radford University’s Center for Social and Cultural Research, Honors Program, Scholar-Citizen Initiative, Appalachian Regional and Rural Studies Center, and Floyd County High School. Our archives now hold over 100 interviews.

In our Roots with Wings project, college mentors, high school staff, and community volunteers meet weekly during the school year to teach the discipline of oral history collection.


Students learn ethical, methodologically sound interview techniques, practice and complete several interviews, transcribe the audiotapes, create searchable content logs, archive interviewee resources and period photographs, learn the technology of audio and video recording, research historical backgrounds, acquire proficiency in iMovie and storytelling, and finally extract a theme from an hour long interview to create a seven minute movie production.

Monday, February 10, 2020

From the Front Porch to the Front Lines at Radford U.

On Wednesday February 26, 2020, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m., at the Andrew W. Ross Gallery, third floor, Radford University McConnell Library, Kathleen Ingoldsby and Melinda Wagner will discuss “From the Front Porch to the Front Lines:  Rural Virginia on a Threshold of Change.”  We will present some of the Roots with Wings Floyd County High School movies developed from interviews with World War II veterans and their families.  The short movies are included in a DVD set of 39 movies produced with support from Virginia Humanities.  
Our presentation is part of the Radford University 
World War II 75th Anniversary Series:  Experience and Legacy  


Events will be held at 4 p.m. in the Andrew W. Ross Gallery
 on the third floor of McConnell Library.
All events are free and open to the public.





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