A Reflective Statement by Nora (Egloff) Zimmerman & Elaine Stomber This project focused on the digitization and digital curation of a collection of oral history interviews with local manufacturing, steel, textile, and mining industry workers, which were originally conducted…
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Touchstone Theatre Digital Archive
The work of archiving half of Touchstone’s extensive digital, document and object collection was completed in April 2021 and resulted in archiving over 4 terabytes of video and 40 gigabytes of documents and photos, secured costumes, set designs, and large…
“Who Owns the Outdoors? Remembering, Reclaiming, and Restoring the Natural World”: a Reflection by Dr. Joyce Hinnefeld
During the Spring 2021 semester LVEHC support made possible an entirely new 100-level interdisciplinary course (IDIS 195), titled Who Owns the Outdoors? Remembering, Reclaiming, and Restoring the Natural World and cross-listed in Africana Studies and Environmental Studies. This course was…
DeSales Students Animate LVEHC Digital Archive Content
In Karen Ruggles’ CS-270/TV-340: Multimedia course, students are introduced to motion graphics and compositing. One of the projects focuses on kinetic typography, which is often used in short form media such as advertising, social media visuals, and music videos. For…
Battleground Film Screening and Discussion
Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. Moravian College Political Science Department invites you to attend a public documentary screening and a moderated discussion with filmmakers. “Battleground”(2020). This public documentary follows two grassroots activists in the pivotal counties of the…
New Exhibit: “40 Years of Public Health in the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community”
COMING SOON! A new virtual exhibit from the Lehigh Valley LGBT Community Archive will feature oral histories that reflect 40 years of public health from the HIV/AIDS epidemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. The exhibit launches on Monday, March 15!
SAVE OUR SWIFTS! Lecture Series
SAVE THE DATES for a series of lectures – “Save Our Swifts,” co-sponsored by the LVEHC and hosted by the Bethlehem Area Public Library. Visit https://www.bapl.org/saveourswifts/ for more information Forum #1 Wednesday Feb 17, 2021, 7:00-8:3o PM Chimney Swifts…
Oral History Collections Funded by LVEHC Shine Light on Local LGBT History and Stories
With funding from the LVEHC, two oral history projects have recently been completed to chronicle pivotal experiences of the local LGBT community in the past half-century. These projects were made possible due to collaborations between the Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center,…
Constructing a Feature Documentary
A Reflective Blog by FilmMaker Drew Swedberg Following what has been an incredibly rigorous, collaborative, and rewarding semester that blended the final leg of production on “In Love, In Memory,” and the early stages of post-production, we have arrived at…
Writing Nature: Refuge, or Threat?
March 26-27, 2021 This FREE, VIRTUAL conference will explore people’s experiences in natural landscapes as spaces of inclusion and exclusion. With limited spaces available on a first come, first serve basis. Each workshop participant will be eligible to apply…