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Collection Title
Berrien County Historical Association Oral History Collection (OH2)
Collection Identifier
2
Biographical Note
Note: the rights to these interviews are uncertain. NHM reached out to Berrien County Historical Association in 2018 and received the following note from Bob Myers: 
The project was grant-funded, I think through the Michigan Humanities Council, and involved collecting and transcribing several dozen oral histories of Greek families that lived in Berrien County, Michigan. We staged an exhibit of about six weeks’ duration at an off-site shopping mall that donated the use of a storefront space, and published a small narrative booklet. The county’s Greek population is quite small; most of the families had originally settled in Chicago, moved to the Benton Harbor, Michigan, area, and then moved from there to the New Buffalo, Michigan, area.

 

We intended to have this project serve as the first of several oral history programs that would document various cultural and ethnic groups in the county. We followed it with one that focused on the county’s Italian population, but that was the last. As you can imagine, it was incredibly time-consuming and without grant funding just wasn’t sustainable.

 

We eventually gave the tape recordings and transcripts to Elaine Thomopoulos.  I believe that she donated them to the Annunciation & St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Church in New Buffalo, Michigan.

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