'A Track Winding Back' offers a pioneering model for the use of oral storytelling and digital technologies to break down the barriers between those living in Aged Care and the wider community.
Seventeen individual CD recordings were recorded for A TRACK WINDING BACK:MORSHEAD HOME ORAL HISTORY & REMINISCENCE PROJECT during 2007-2008.
This Blog provides an online showcase of the project - widening access to its stories - while also modelling the importance of storytelling to a sense of connection and belonging in our lives and community.
The project archives stories of service abroad, wartime in Australia, celebrations of peace, memories of working life and migration and residents' thoughts on life, love, enforced change and ageing. Its ambit is wide: accounts of learning to loop-the-loop in a Tiger moth, an insider’s view of the refrigeration and liquor trade in King’s Cross nightclubs, memories of a water ski club on Lake George, residents’ recollections of the mini-sub attacks on Sydney Harbour and an account of advising Prime Minister Gorton.
As such, the project provides a holding point - or 'time capsule' which preserves the so called 'ordinary ' and 'everyday' stories of a generation who have lived extraordinary lives through war and peacetime.
Each recording for A TRACK WINDING BACK is accompanied by a CD booklet which draws together archival images, a written introduction to the recording and photographs taken throughout the interviewing period.
Enormous thanks to A.Gholipour, artist & social historian for CD cover design/production and to the talented plus enduring Stuart G for audio and new media assistance For their early help and inpiration, appreciation goes to Koula Poulos and Jill Sutton, and to Blogger/Promoter Eammon Flanagan. Janine and Kim Jeffereys lended their attentive, highly tuned ears and expertise, Cornelia Eichler her grounded and wise counsel in the face of long timeframes. Thanks to Jessica Stead for ongoing feedback on ethics & production issues. Gratitude to D.O.P Steve Moxey for audio samples recorded by Mox Productions of WWII aircraft. These peoples' generosity and contributions have been invaluable in bringing the project together.
Project design and 'A Track Winding Back' CD/Blog content edited and produced by Magella Blinksell iblink Productions.
Funding for the A TRACK WINDING BACK CD project - ACT Office for Ageing . In 2008 a grant was received from the Department of Veterans Affairs to bring a weblog sampler of the project online providing broader access to the project.
Morshead Home would like to express its appreciation of this support of A TRACK WINDING BACK.
To listen to a sampler of the lead-in to a CD recording (with participants' surname edited for privacy) click: http://www.archive.org/details/ATrackWindingBackOralHistoryCdLead-inSampler
