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Little White School Museum collecting Oswego stories for documenting everyday history · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Little White School Museum collecting Oswego stories for documenting everyday history.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Judy Harvey, this article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Oswego's Little
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  Speaker 1: White School Museum is collecting written and taped accounts from
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  Speaker 1: current and former Oswego residents for its biographical collection as
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  Speaker 1: part of the Share Your Stories program. The museum aims
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  Speaker 1: to document everyday life in Oswego from the past right
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  Speaker 1: up through the present. You do not have to be
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  Speaker 1: a current Oswego resident to share your stories. The museum said.
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  Speaker 1: Your experiences and perspectives concerning the entire Oswego Land community
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  Speaker 1: will provide valuable firsthand perspectives for the museum's archives and
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  Speaker 1: for the community's future residents, The museum said in a
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  Speaker 1: news release. Stories submitted can describe large amounts of time,
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  Speaker 1: such as years spent in Oswego schools, or specific events
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  Speaker 1: like attending a race at the Oswego drag Raceway, working
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  Speaker 1: on a local farm, or moving into a new subdivision,
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  Speaker 1: and be written in any format. The museum said. These
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  Speaker 1: entries will go into the museum's historical biographical manuscript collections
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  Speaker 1: and will be available to researchers upon request, Whether it
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  Speaker 1: is a paragraph for multiple pages or bullet points or
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  Speaker 1: an outline, Your stories will be valued by the museum
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  Speaker 1: and may be part of valuable future historical research. The
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  Speaker 1: museum said, have something to say but not sure how
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  Speaker 1: to say it? Visit bit dot l I sash lw
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  Speaker 1: Smlittle White School Museum dot org for prompts to help
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  Speaker 1: write your story. If you'd like assistance, contact Little White
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  Speaker 1: School Museum coordinator Joe Nosi, submit your stories online by
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  Speaker 1: email to jnos at TUASWEGOLANDPD dot org, or deliver them
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  Speaker 1: to the museum's front desk through March thirtieth. Regular hours,
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  Speaker 1: the museum is open two to six thirty pm Thursdays,
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  Speaker 1: eleven am to four pm Fridays, nine am to two
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  Speaker 1: pm Saturdays and Sundays, and four nine pm Mondays. The
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  Speaker 1: museum is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. And museum is
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  Speaker 1: located at seventy two Polks and Taswego. For more information,
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  Speaker 1: call the museum at six three zero five five four
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  Speaker 1: two nine nine nine, or email museum coordinator Joe Nosey
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  Speaker 1: at Janosi ad oswegl LANDPDE dot org