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Volunteer opportunities
Friday, March 11, 2005

Project SAVE interviewers

Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, recipient of funding from
the Watertown/Harvard Community Enrichment and Watertown/O’Neill Properties
Charitable Funds, is beginning to interview elder Armenians for the purpose
of collecting and documenting their photographs. Project SAVE’s grant
project includes an effort to involve community historians of all ages and
ethnicities in learning the techniques of interviewing people and
documenting their photographs.

This training is essential for all types of community preservation
efforts. If you love history, especially people/social history, and love
photographs for what they can tell us about the past and teach us about
ourselves, think about becoming a volunteer. You will have first-hand
experience visiting with people, learning documenting procedures, using the
tape recorder, preparing paperwork for accessioning and archiving
photographs, and making discoveries of long forgotten people and places.

If you are intrigued by this work, and have four to eight hours a month
to devote to it, whether you are a high school student (with parents’
permission), a senior citizen or somewhere in between, please contact Ruth
Thomasian, executive director, at Project SAVE Archives, 617-923-4542, or
archives@projectsave.org.