Scope and Contents The collection is divided into 4 series. Series I, festival records, includes press releases, budget estimates, and memoranda from the Eisteddfod Executive Committee (EEC), festival programs, brochures, and biographies of the many Eisteddfod performers. This series also contains the yearly publications of the Ceilidh Columns (compiled by EEC members and Eisteddfod performers), Eisteddfod editions of The Torch and The Observer (two UMD newspapers), photographs of Eisteddfod performers, music...

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The oral history project grew out of a desire to document the how and why of this massive conservation project. All interviews were conducted by Edith Swift of Thirroul, Australia, part time resident of South Dartmouth, whose family has ties to the region. The collection includes audio cassette recordings of the interviews, all conducted in 2002 and 2003, transcriptions and indices to some of the interviews. All of the interviews have been transcribed.