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From: "Bell, John" <john.bell-AT-uconn.edu>
To: "puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org" <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 19:24:31 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Oral History - Ct Guild project


This is great news about the Connecticut Guild's interview project!!!  Really necessary and a fine model!!  Thanks Rolande and the other folks involved in your project!
jb
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From: puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org [puptcrit-bounces-AT-puptcrit.org] On Behalf Of Alan Cook [alangregorycook-AT-msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 12:10 PM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: [Puptcrit] Oral History - Ct Guild project

I recommend more than one interview session. After the first interview you should have clues for more questions. Many interviewees have not thought about certain answers for so long, that memory fails. But now & then a different slant to a question will produce an "aha moment.

The other thing, it helps for older folks especially to be well rested. My recent interview was right after the Atlanta Puppetry Festival. Too much sleep deprivation does not help memory--it did not help mine!


-----Original Message-----
From: puppetpro-AT-aol.com
Sent: Saturday, December 5, 2009 7:21 AM
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] historic puppets and puppeteers

Does anyone ever know history? I should have said I am a student of history. You should by all means post the photo, though. Alan Cook certainly would be able to identify it.


In Connecticut we are working on an oral history of the performing members of the Connecticut Guild of Puppetry. Right now we are videotaping interviews. It will be an on-going project for the next several years.


Rolande





-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-verizon.net>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 7:51 am
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppets and puppeteers


Rolande, you know history? Gosh, when I get a chance, I will post a
picture of my Thai marionette that came from Smithsonian. He is old,
wooden, and about 2 feet tall. Maybe you can recognize him.

Mary
On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:48 AM, puppetpro-AT-aol.com wrote:

> As a historian, I am very curious about the history of those
> marionettes. I have three -- given to me by a teacher who bought
> them at the estate sale in D.C. from the maker's sister. He didn't
> remember the name of the maker, and he had cut all the strings off
> ("since they were so tangled"). I know that provenance matters much
> in value of objects.
>
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> But, in that this work exists on its own, separate from the maker's
> life, it can be experienced as a piece of art without the knowledge
> of what it was or who made it. This is why the teacher (an art
> teacher) had purchased the marionettes -- as art objects, not as
> performing objects, nor as historical artifacts.
>
>
> Rolande
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Ballora <gregballora-AT-sbcglobal.net>
> To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
> Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 4:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] puppets and puppeteers
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> On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:32 PM, puppetpro-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
>> It was made in the 1940's or '50s, I think. The connection to its
>> maker (and performer?) is secondary to its character as a commercial
>> brand. What was her story? I'd love to know. Does it really matter?
>> Probably not.
>
> I would say that it does matter, since it colors your relationship to
> the puppet. Your knowledge of her (how do you know that it was a she?)
> could mean a lot to you. If that knowledge were shared by more people,
> we would call it "fame", but in many ways it would be no more
> valuable.
> Greg Ballora
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