Some may say that hearing small-town interviews could be compared to seeing home movies. How could they interest anybody except for the select few that were involved. Well just think of it... One hundred years or even fifty years from now someone may listen to these tapes. Hopefully our world will still be going strong. One old farmer said in an interview, "You can't believe it! You just can't believe we really did that." If he thought that I could not believe it, can you imagine the reaction of someone a hundred years from now.

Most of the people we interviewed have witnessed a lot of changes in their life time. Phenomenal technology has occurred in the Twentieth Century and I can only anticipate what is yet to come. Imagine seeing your first talkie movie or bombing around in a Model T. Television, telephones, phonographs, radios, jets, electricity, indoor plumbing, refrigerator-freezers... Now just fancy being without them all. You will find that many of the interviews involve people who have been through such a transition.

Joanne Vamos
August 14, 1980

The rest of the Chronicles of Oakland Township can be read at the Our Brant wiki.