{"id":42,"date":"2016-10-16T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/humans\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:57:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:57:32","slug":"about-the-humans-of-montgomery-county-at-wabash-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/humans\/2016\/10\/16\/about-the-humans-of-montgomery-county-at-wabash-college\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Humans of Montgomery County at Wabash College"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Spring 2016, students from Professor Jill Lamberton\u2019s Audio Rhetoric and Creative Writing course reached out to members of the Crawfordsville community. They wanted to get to know these citizens of the College\u2019s hometown, to listen, and to learn. They wanted to record stories of those who live in the county, yet are not directly tied to Wabash College, and to share those stories\u00a0with the wider world.<\/p>\n

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Logan Taylor \u201918\u00a0talks with Richard Paige during a classroom demonstration of interviewing technique.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This Web site\u2014Humans of Montgomery County<\/em>\u2014gathers and presents edited versions of those stories.\u00a0Inspired by the Humans of New York<\/em> online site, it is an\u00a0ongoing project that seeks to build students’ listening and audio production skills\u00a0and\u00a0increase understanding and meaningful connections between the Wabash and Crawfordsville communities.<\/p>\n

Students worked in pairs: While one person interviewed, the other took photographs. Our interviewees were remarkably generous and welcoming, meeting our students in homes, on campus, in other places in town that mattered to them. The students, staff, and faculty involved in the project extend our deepest gratitude to these members of our community for their willingness to tell\u00a0their stories, and for granting us permission to share them with the world.<\/p>\n

The Montgomery County residents our students interviewed\u00a0included:<\/p>\n

Dan Booher<\/strong> (Charles Ridgway \u201916)
\nStefanie Deaton<\/strong> (James Fritz \u201916)
\nMegan Dillon<\/strong>\u00a0(Dylan Seikel \u201916)
\nLee Douma<\/strong> (Holton Warriner \u201917)
\nKeri and Carolyn\u00a0Francis<\/strong> (Jake Thompson \u201916)
\nEric Frye<\/strong> (Weston Gregg \u201916)
\nNaomi Harper<\/strong> (Willie Strong \u201916)
\nHelen Hudson<\/strong> (Josh Tapper \u201916)
\nVictoria Hudson-Swisher<\/strong> (Josh Covert \u201918)
\nPaul Hutson<\/strong> (Brent Poling \u201916)
\nClaude Johnson<\/strong> (interviewed by Austin Harrison \u201918)
\nMarilyn Kelley <\/strong>(Connor Stumm \u201917)
\nCorey Lane <\/strong>(Logan Taylor \u201918)
\nKelli Livengood<\/strong> (Connor Rice \u201917)
\nMike Norman<\/strong> (Austin Myers \u201916)
\nMatt Williams<\/strong> (Ryan Anzalone \u201916)<\/p>\n

Funding for this project was provided by a Lilly Endowment Faculty\u00a0and Staff Mini-grant through the Center for Innovation, Business and\u00a0Entrepreneurship at Wabash College.\u00a0Associate Director of Communications Richard Paige, Wabash Magazine<\/em> Editor Steve Charles, and Audio and Video Technician Phillip Merriett provided interviewing instruction or technical support.\u00a0Violet Mayberry and Heather Thrush facilitated connections with community members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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