West Junior High ca. 1927 The couple married in 1924 at the original Corpus Christi Catholic Church on North Cascade and lived in an apartment above a broom factory on West Colorado Avenue. Norma Beghetto Dellacroce’s story is filled with wonderful wit and insight and paints a vivid picture of life decades ago in Colorado Springs. If you are interested in learning more about Norma’s fascinating story or to view any of our other oral histories, please contact the museum to make an appointment to visit the archives. To make the interviews accessible for researchers, CSPM transcribes them. To do this important work, the museum relies on a small cadre of wonderful volunteers. Transcription is a painstaking process but absolutely essential to making the interviews useful for historical purposes. For every one hour of an oral history, it takes approximately 4 to 6 hours of transcription time. Every section of the voice recording must be listened to numerous times to get an accurate transcription. Additionally, transcripts must be edited for spelling and other errors before they are approved for use in research and exhibits. The oral history collection is “mined” extensively in the research and preparation for new exhibits. For instance, CSPM has dozens of interview excerpts in the Story of Us exhibit and online platform. Visitors enjoy the “first-person” narration of local events and subject matter available through these stories. For the past several months, CSPM has conducted interviews in preparation of upcoming exhibits on the families of POWs/MIAs during the Vietnam Era in addition to the founding members Sankofa. And the work continues. Do you have stories to share? Would you or someone else you know participate in our ongoing oral history documentation project? Would you like to volunteer to help us conduct interviews or transcribe them? If so, please feel free to contact Leah Witherow at your convenience. The CSPM team looks forward to hearing from you! MUSELETTER JANUARY 2018| PG 9
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