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Tell your story to history
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum wants to hear your story.
Austin-based production house, LifeStories Alive, and publicity firm, Frost Media Relations, have announced that they are partnering with the Bullock in an effort to raise $2 million to launch the Texas Visual and Oral History Project, a statewide oral history video project.
Once the project is funded, the plan is send a mobile video booth to various regions around the state so that anyone can record his or her story for posterity.
Any Texan, that is.
“Tweed Scott, author of Texas in Her Own Words, coined the term the ‘T chromosome,’ where he expressed that Texas is different and the people from the state have a commonality…a Texas pride, that no other state can quite emulate,” said John Sneed, executive director of the State Preservation Board, which oversees the Bullock Museum. “There’s so much truth to the T chromosome mindset, which is why we’re so excited about this partnership in gathering the stories of the people who make Texas so rich, vibrant, and larger than life.”
Funding for the project is expected to come from public/private sponsorships and reaches out to Texans across the state. In the meantime, until the $2 million is raised, the project see will place a stationary video booth at the Bullock beginning mid-2010.
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