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This week’s Sip, Shop & Stroll, the city’s repeating farmers’ market and downtown business celebration, will feature an appearance from the Elgin Oral History Project.
The meet-and-greet will be from 5 to 8 p.m., Nov. 9, and organization directors are eager to hear more stories from Elginites.
Founded in 2021, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, the EOHP holds the mission of preserving Elgin’s history through interviews of current and former residents.
Interviewers have already conducted over 80 interviews with a plan to provide public access to all audio recordings and their transcriptions. A compilation of 20 local stories was published last year in the city’s sesquicentennial celebration paper, included in the time capsule buried in front of the Elgin Public Library.
Organization leaders are looking forward to continuing their mission of oral history preservation, excited to talk with anyone interested in sharing their stories, learning more about Elgin’s history or becoming an interviewer themself.
The Thursday evening event will also feature a reading from Little Bill, by Mark Owen.
