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Oral History Project |
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Celebrate America's 250th birthday.
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The Greenwich Library Oral History Project exists to collect, preserve, and make available the personal recollections of people who have helped to make, or lived through and observed, the history of Greenwich, Connecticut, from the 1890s forward.
Founded in 1974, the Project has conducted more than 1,250 interviews, published 142 books from its collection, and since 2011 published monthly blogs. It has presented programs for different organizations and trained volunteers and town residents in the techniques of conducting and preserving oral history interviews. The entire collection is available at the Greenwich Library. Interviews may also be found at the Cos Cob Library, Byram Shubert Library, and Perrot Memorial Library. Books and transcribed interviews may be purchased at the Oral History Project office, or through our Books for Sale webpage. Read our latest blog:
Wyatt Bennett Greenwich Historian is interviewed about George Washington: Father of our Country “Without Washington and without the French help that we got, it could very well have been an extended period before we achieved our freedom. Or it might never have occurred..."
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