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By Pam Meister, President and CEO, The Charlotte Museum of History Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression Charlotte/Mecklenburg 1929-1939 opens September 30, 2006. The exhibit allows visitors to discover how Charlotteans not only survived but thrived during that era. Based on interviews by local author and reminiscence-writing facilitator Robin Edgar, this exhibit shares personal accounts and compelling lessons learned from life in Charlotte/Mecklenburg during the Great Depression. Capturing ordinary histories from extraordinary times, the exhibit includes photographic montages of the storytellers and their memories created by local photographer Jennifer Crickenberger. These montages and heartwarming accounts are also included in a book by the same title published by CPCC Press, a division of Central Piedmont Community College. Serving as an exhibition catalog, the book was made possible, in part, through a Regional Artist Project grant Edgar received in January 2006. The stories in the exhibit and the book follow four themes: “Standing Together,” “Working Through,” “Having Faith” and “Making Do.” Keying off of these themes, WTVI is producing a documentary about the Great Depression in Charlotte that includes several of the participants featured in the exhibit. “Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression is by no means a comprehensive history,” said Edgar. “It is more like eavesdropping on older adults’ conversations, as many of us have done as children. Their stories not only focus on how life was, but on how different individuals from several walks of life survived, and how that survival shaped their lives.” Edgar and Crickenberger hope the Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depression project will inspire others to capture the stories of everyday, ordinary heroes in their own communities. |
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