Voices of Women
A project between the Rothesay Living Museum and the Kennebecasis Public Library.
This project was created in reponse to several donations to the museum. Audio tapes of conversations with residents of Rothesay in the 1970’s and 1980’s created by the Rothesay Area Heitage Trust, made available through the archives of the Saint John Free Public Library and the Dorothy Purdy Collection which archives the concerns of a prominent local woman in a current context..
The Rothesay Living Museum digitized selected content for public access using current technology. The Voices of Women project today has a collection of conversations with residents on archived CDs maintained for distribution and cataloguing by the Kennebecasis Public Library. The project is ongoing with members of the museum committee interviewing residents. Eventually this content will be mostly accessible online.
Project Launch
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- Dignitaries at the CD launch of the Voices of Women project at the Kennebecasis Public Library which was attended by approximately 35 people. Hon. Margaret Ann Blaney, Minister Resonsible for the Status of Women, Chief Larry Greer and Ms. Lesley McVicar, Head Librarian. The CD’s are of conversations with local residents are available to borrow from the library.
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- The Chief presides over the presentations.
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- Joan Fitzgerald elaborates her new experience as an interviewer.
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- Councillor Jette and Minister Blaney.
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- Minister Blaney presented with prints of photographs believed to taken by Miss Dorothy Purdy during a women’s canoe trip down the Kennebecasis. These photographs were discovered in the Purdy Collection and retouched and digitized by RLM student employees.
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- Minister Blaney presented with prints of photographs believed to taken by Miss Dorothy Purdy during a women’s canoe trip down the Kennebecasis. These photographs were discovered in the Purdy Collection and retouched and digitized by RLM student employees.
