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Folklife Center Announces Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations
Working in partnership with a national project initiated by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Vermont Folklife Center of Middlebury will be collecting audio and video recordings of sermons and orations from Vermont that comment on the significance of the inauguration of 2009.
On January 20, 2009, the United States will inaugurate Barack Obama, the country's first African American president. It is expected that many sermons and orations will be delivered at churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship, as well as before other community-based and secular gatherings that address both the social significance of this event and local reactions to it. The Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project is seeking donations of audio and video recordings of as wide a representation of orations as possible. The Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury will serve as the conduit for collecting and processing these recordings from Vermont.
If you or your congregation or community group would like to donate recordings of sermons and orations that address this historic inauguration, please review the project guidelines at the Library of Congress website, http://www.loc.gov/folklife/inaugural/.
If you have any additional questions about acceptable recording formats, recording methods or the coordination of the Inauguration 2009 Sermons and Orations Project in Vermont, contact Vermont Folklife Center Archivist, Andy Kolovos, at (802) 388-4964.
All audio and video recordings should be securely packaged and mailed or delivered to:
Inauguration 2009 Project
Vermont Folklife Center
88 Main Street
Middlebury, VT 05753
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