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Oral living history narrative project lives on, now taken up by W-W Historical Foundation The on-going project to capture the oral and living history of Washington and Wilkes County is now in the hands of the Washington-Wilkes Historical Foundation. "A Narrative of Wilkes County, Georgia," planned to be a multivolume DVD collection of interviews was the product of New South Productions. "But New South ran out of money and manpower," said Stephanie Macchia, "and the historical foundation wanted to see it finished." The New South board voted to hand over the project to the Washington Wilkes Historical Foundation, and the Foundation hopes to finish making a master DVD to duplicate by November. "We'd like to have copies available for Christmas," Macchia said. "There are people who have reserved a DVD and we want to get them out." The historical foundation hopes that sales of the first volume of the living history narrative will fund the next group of interviews for subsequent volumes. The interviews on this and future living history volumes are "recent history, not the usual Civil War," Macchia said. "It covers from the first time the Square was paved up through integration." The narrative video production, being produced by Hanna's House Productions, includes clips from the life-long Wilkes memories of Irvin Cheney, Mary Wright Blue, Leila Watkins, Eddie and Kay Finnell, and many others, illustrated with old Washington photos.
"It's a very human look at all sides of the town," she said "and they describe this town so well you can just see it - and it changed the way I look at Washington."
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