Introduction

This webquest was created to support and extend then use of the video "Dry Gulcher Down" in the classroom. Click here for a complete lesson plan in support of this video resource.

Preserving the valuable memories of living people is the vitally important task of an oral historian. Through the interviewing process, history is recorded from the first-hand experience of the persons who have lived it. For students of history, past eras and specific historical events become immeasurably more vivid when supplemented with the personal stories and anecdotes of individuals. Naturally, facets of history are continually illuminated by the light of the smallest of details in a person's life. Oral history is one important key or tool to this process of illumination.

In this webquest, students follow oral history processes to contact and interview a World War II veteran or person alive during the World War II era. They then use the information to write a script for an historical documentary to be submitted to Old Segundo Productions for consideration for documentary production.