April 2008 Archives

I am very please to pass along plans for a new website within Through Our Parents' Eyes about Tucson's Barrio Anita. Last Tuesday I Barrio Anita resident, Ramon Olivas at Oury Park, to discuss developing a website about the Barrio Anita. Ramon has been involved in a number Barrio Anita projects, including the enormous mural that overlooks Oury Park. Ramon passed along two booklets from Barrio Anita projects that collected family histories and engaged area youth in learning more about their heritage. Ramon has two more booklets to share and is going to talk to others in the neighborhood about participating. What I'd like to do is collect digital stories like the two currently on Through Our Parents' Eyes. These tend to be about two minutes of audio that is paced with a family's photos.

Here is an update on a website about the Tucson Press Club that would include issues of The Hellbox mentioned in my March 24th entry.

While exploring ways to present The Hellbox issues in the context of Tucson's unique Tucson Press Club (TPC) I discovered that James. F. Cooper, a columnist for the Tucson Citizen decades ago had published, posthumously, a book about the TPC called The Bar Is Open: The history of Tucson Press Club, 1944-1991. Having a digital copy of this book would be a great addition to the planned website and would be a useful addition to TOPE's e-books section.