teaching myself the drupal development platform, and setting up the county project site (www.mscivilrightsproject.com) to host and stream media. given that i have a very meager grasp of html, php, css, etc. the work is 70% learning curve, 27% messing something up, 3% blind-squirrel-finds-a-nut.
what should follow is an embedded video that i've been using to configure the video player i've installed. the clip is an excerpt from a interview/oral-history i did with my great aunt, sister mary william sullivan, who is a retired nun and was active in chicago's south side during the 50s and 60s. by "active" i mean engaging in and organizing neighborhoods around issues of educational equity and housing access. so, she's a bona fide OG.
next up on the site development: figuring out image uploading & hosting and image gallery construction. then setting up streaming audio. then teaching interns on how to post and upload. then developing an educational resource template, which essentially will be a wik-ed 0.9 (if you were once a beardy-face vaguely-to-very jewish teacher corps member--or dave jones--you'd know what that meant).
that being said, it's all work perfect for the mississippi summer, which amounts to floating between refrigerators and saunas.
6.02.2009
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David --- I'm a writer, and I'm working on a history of Chicago. And one of the people I'm hoping to focus on in the book is your great aunt, Sister Mary William Sullivan. I see by this 2009 posting that you've done an oral history with her. I wonder if it would be possible for me to see it. Also, is she still available to interview? Please contact me at 773-743-2209. Thanks. Patrick T. Reardon airvermeer@gmail.com
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