Coastways Oral History Project
GUIDELINES
If you would like to add your memories (and I hope you would!), sit down with a friend, SO, or other interested person. Have them set their phone or other video recording device in a spot where it can see you, turn it on, and forget about it. Have them ask you questions - you can use any or all of the ones below, or make up your own:
Who were your parents and grandparents? When were they born?
What things did they do at the ranch?
When were you born?
What was Coastways to you when you were growing up?
What are your favorite memories involving Coastways?
What pets did you have?
What was the biggest trouble you ever got into (or the biggest mischief you ever pulled off) at the ranch?
Who were your partners in crime?
What foods do you associate with the ranch? Who cooked them?
Who lived at the ranch when you were a kid? What crops or livestock were grown there then, and by whom?
Where did you usually hike to? What was special about that place?
Do you have any stories about the Model A?
Do you have any stories involving boats or water?
What was the weirdest thing you ever found on the beach?
What was the weirdest thing you ever found in the woods?
What was your most memorable wildlife encounter at the ranch?
How did you know it was dinnertime at the ranch?
What were your favorite holiday traditions?
Which ranch building was your favorite, and why?
Whose weddings have you attended at Coastways? Whose memorials?
What did you do when you were by yourself at the ranch?
What was the first thing you showed your friends when they came there?
Did you ever have a serious injury at the ranch? How did it happen?
Is anything you helped build still standing there? What is it?
What art or music has Coastways inspired you to create?
Email Skye Daniels at shipsandsealingwax@yahoo.com to get your video added to the compilation. Everyone's input is welcome.
When I have enough footage, I will post the video here so that all interested folks can access it. I expect it will be a work in progress for a good many years to come.
Sensitive info including birthdates, mothers' maiden names, favorite pets, and so forth, will be omitted from the online version of this video project. A more comprehensive version will be available offline to family members only.
--Skye