Oral History
Oral history has benefits that no other historical source can provide. They lend depth, texture, flavor, and color to history and yield details of time and place that are generally not available in the formal written record.
The Weston History & Culture Center's Weston Voices Oral History Project provides a living record of how life has been lived here over many decades by gathering, preserving, and celebrating the voices of a wide range of our long time residents. Interviewees have been chosen with an eye toward balancing their age, their role in the community, their professional accomplishments, their ties to past events, their knowledge of Weston as it was and as it grew, and their perspectives on the people and events that have given the town its special character.
An earlier group of interviews done in the 1970s, '80s and '90s can be found in the Weston History & Culture Center's archives. Some have been preserved digitally by the Weston Public Library. The current series, begun in 2015, and accessible here as well as in our archives, features the interview videos as well as the annotated transcripts.
Weston Voices is sponsored by the Weston History & Culture Center and its members and friends with additional contributions from the Weston Education Foundation and the Friends of the Senior Activities Center.
