Connecticut Storytellers
Subject
Trudie Lamb Richmond
(Schaghticoke, 1931 - 2021)
Subject
Isabel Osorio
(Puerto Rican)
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Josephine McNamara
(Irish)
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Rosaire LeHoux
(Canadian, 1920 - 2013)
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Andre Giroux
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Dr. Raouf Mama
(Beninese)
Subject
Omaa Chukwurah-Orezabo
(Nigerian)
Datec. 2000
Mediumreformatted digital file from audio cassette
DimensionsDuration: 40 Minutes, 59 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineConnecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program collections
CopyrightIn Copyright
Object number2015.196.687a-c
DescriptionCompilation audio cassette tape of Connecticut storytellers recorded for the Vermont Folklife Center's Storytelling Project. Storytellers include: Trudie Lamb Richmond, Isabel Osorio, Josephine MacNamara, Rosaire LeHoux, Andre Giroux, Raouf Mama, and Omaa Chukwurah-Orezabo.
NotesSubject Note: CCHAP collaborated with the Vermont Folklife Center’s Family Stories, Family Sagas project in the early 2000s. CCHAP suggested several Connecticut storytellers who were interviewed and recorded by Jane Beck of the Vermont Folklife Center who compiled a tape archive of dozens of storytellers from across New England and later developed a traveling exhibit (2003) featuring six of the storytellers she interviewed. Connecticut artists who were interviewed included Schaghticoke elder Trudie Lamb Richmond with her daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter; Puerto Rican poet Isabel Osorio in Hartford; Portuguese fisherman Joe Rendeiro and his daughter from Stonington; Benin storyteller Raouf Mama; Irish singer Josephine MacNamara; Nigerian storyteller Omaa Chukwurah-Orezabo; and French Canadian raconteurs Andre Giroux (Bethlehem) and Rosaire LeHoux (Willimantic).Additional materials exist in the CCHAP archive for these artists and this project.
Cataloging Note: This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-245929-OMS-20.
Status
Not on view
John Monteiro
2005 June 19
