El Pueblo History Museum Collecting Borderlands Memories

From El Pueblo History Museum:

PUEBLO, Colo. — In anticipation of opening the Borderlands of Southern Colorado exhibit in 2018, El Pueblo History Museum is continuing its fall series on borderlands.
The Borderlands Family Memory Workshop is a community-based public history project that will document the stories of families who can trace their roots to southern Colorado before 1848 – the year Mexico’s territory in the Southwest was transferred to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo. Participants in the workshop will learn interview techniques and how to record oral histories of their families that may have been passed down for generations.
Other oral history projects undertaken at El Pueblo History Museum have focused on the Eilers, Salt Creek, and Eastwood Heights neighborhoods, on the Bell Game, and on the Chicano Movement. The borderlands memories collected by participants in this workshop will join the oral history collection. The Borderlands Family Memory Workshop will take place on Saturday, October 14, 2017, from 10 am to noon at El Pueblo History Museum, 301 N. Union Avenue. There is no cost to attend this event.