Blog #4

Sage Griffee

When I first learned about the OHP I was dreading what the next few weeks would hold. I thought that I could never enjoy an oral history. However, coming out of the project I feel quite the opposite, the project was actually very eye opening. One thing I really enjoyed about the project was the insight I got into the life of Maura Joyce during and following harvey. I thought going into the interview that we would just get a very boring recount of roughly  two weeks of Ms. Joyce's life, what I actually got was an emotional and very important tale of the rebuilding of our school and the importance of generosity.

If there was one thing I could change about how my group went about our interview it would be how we formed our questions. There are two things I would change about them, one would be to have more questions, and the other to change the type of question. The reason I would want to change the types of questions we had is because a lot of our questions were based on factual events and not about Ms. Joyce's mental state during the Hurricane. I also believe that more questions would have greatly benefited the project and given us more material to work with. Overall, I really enjoyed the project and thought that I learned a lot from it.