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, May 3, 2021

Quilts, quilts, quilts!  

1906-1907 Floyd County Crazy Quilt
    
   During the month of March, while the Gallery exhibits are closed to the public, find virtual Old Church Gallery displays featuring different quilts every day in our March Facebook posts. 

 
Old Church Gallery Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/Old-Church-Gallery-271233369688410/ 
 
    Quilts are practical magic; they turn thrifty fabric scraps into radiant warmth.  Historically, they reflect the creative industry of women’s work.  

Quilts harness stories:  
  • Of a family:  "Whose dresses were those?  Was that Uncle Frank's shirt?"  
  • Of a place:   "Is that the Buffalo in this square?"   
  • Of a country:  "Road to Kansas" pattern pieces trace local migration from east to west.  
  • Of Fancy and Frolic:  “What dance had four hands in a circle?”

   In honor of National Quilt Day, March 20, as well as National Women’s Month,  we believe we found the perfect folk craft to present in our quilt collection.  Check out the link: https://www.facebook.com/Old-Church-Gallery-271233369688410/  to see quilts fashioned by women's hands featured daily throughout the entire month.  
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