Author: Elyse Abma

Elyse is a graduate student with the University of Victoria living in Edmonton, AB. She completed her BA at The King’s University in 2017 and her MA in Public History at the University of Victoria. She continues to work with the Gerry Segger Heritage Collection on various projects.

  • Oral History in the Dining Room

    ByElyse Abma

    Six years ago, I conducted an oral history interview with my grandmother, or Beppe as we called her. A few short months after the interview, she passed away at the age of 89. After her funeral all of her family gathered together and we listened to her speak once again through a recording, telling us the stories that we had heard so many times before with her thick accent and mispronunciations of a language she never quite mastered.