Digital Minot, a web-based museum and archive at Minot State University, will be conducting an oral history session from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Taube Museum of Art. The Downtown Minot Fall Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
"It's a great experience for our interns working in public history and gives the public a chance to share what they know about Minot and the surrounding region," said Amy Lisner, project coordinator. "We welcome anyone to share their memories. We can record five minutes or 55 minutes, and it can be on any topic on the history of Minot, Minot State University and the surrounding region."
Lisner said that there will be five people on hand to record the stories. MSU student interns are working on different projects about the history of the area.
Kortney Arnold is working on a project about the history of the Minot Symphony Orchestra and has already heard a lot of colorful stories about Arturo Petrucci, the first conductor.
"He was an Italian and had a very thick accent," said Arnold. "He was a very good humored kind of guy."
Petrucci started with the orchestra in 1915 and continued until his retirement in 1961. After he retired, he played violin with the orchestra but wasn't entirely able to give up conducting.
"He would drive the new conductors crazy," said Arnold, by criticizing their selections or by playing songs he thought were more difficult. Petrucci did this in a good-humored, joking way, said Arnold, who would love to hear more stories about the orchestra or see more photos from the early days.
"Well, I would be looking for any kind of interesting memory they have about the symphony or any person they know who was in the symphony," said Arnold about his project.
Joshua Lewis, another intern, said he is working on a project about the history of the Memorial Library and Gordon B. Olson Library at Minot State.
Other interns have other projects. Lisner said they are interested in hearing stories from any era.
Digital Minot was established in 2012. The site contains historical photos, postcards, newspaper articles, advertisements, scholarly journals, legal documents, oral histories and biographies.
The Digital Minot website can be found through the history department homepage, history.minotstateu.edu, or at (digitalminot.minotstateu.edu/omeka).
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