The founders and alumni of the Cooperstown Graduate Program left a rich archive of the program's history and students continue to add to this record. We're issuing a call to our alumni to take the words of the some of CGP's most influential players and put their own creative spin on them. We have selected a few clips from the founders and applied a Creative Commons license to them so that anyone can repurpose them.
What is Creative Commons you may ask?
Creative Commons allows users to take content and share, re-use, and re-imagine it in new ways. Rather than adhering to strict copyright laws, owners can apply a Creative Commons license to their original material so that others users can make changes and openly share their content. We took a clip of Louis C. Jones, Fred Rath, and Milo Stewart talking about Per Guldbeck's folklife class and added some images to tell a more complete story:
Get creative with oral history!
Louis C. Jones
May 26, 1975
Interviewed by Ellen Fladger
Louis C. Jones shares his interests and experiences of collecting folklore. In this clip, he talks about how students found things that go bump in the night.
Fred Rath
April 17, 1989
In a group interview with Louis C. Jones and Milo Stewart, Fred Rath talks about the founding of CGP. At first, the program required a little experimentation.
Per Guldbeck
October 25, 1992
Interviewed by Cathy Shimberg
Per Guldbeck shares the reasoning behind interpretive decisions at the Country Store of the Farmers' Museum. In this clip, he remembers how the store went from smelling like a 1840s store to apple blossoms.
Milo Stewart
April 17, 1989
Milo Stewart remembers the former CGP professor Erling M. Hunt. Like all CGP students, Stewart experienced challenges when writing papers on broad topics.
How might I do something equally as interesting, might you say?
Get creative! The sky is the limit in reimagining audio. You could auto-tune Fred Rath, mesh several of the clips together to create an inspirational and intellectual rap song, or insert your own commentary of what really happened. Download the clips from the Dropbox folder found at the top of the page and when you are finished send them to cgp50years@gmail.com. We'll then upload the refashioned audio files to the blog on the website.
For more information, feel free to contact Emily Hopkins at hopkej30@suny.oneonta.edu.