Groucho Marx once said, "If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again."  Join Shelly O'Foran for a conversation on the power of storytelling to hold and transmit narrative history in a way that other forms of documentation simply cannot. During her PhD research, O'Foran collected an oral history of a small Black church in rural Alabama that was burned down in 1996, almost certainly by arson.  As a middle-income, white, suburban outsider in this low-income, segregated, rural community, O'Foran bridged those demographic gaps to collect and share more than 100 years in the life of Little Zion: A Church Baptized by Fire. After the presentation, members are encouraged to share their experiences conducting oral histories.

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