Oral history interviews acquaint the listener with day-to-day experiences of a way of life that would otherwise be unknown. Without this oral tradition of our oldest citizens transmitting their history, values and culture, then perhaps each new generation would have to create its world anew. Each Oral History interview is indeed a small "book" dramatically depicting life as it was.

Radnor Memorial Library’s Oral History Project was made possible through grants from the Sun Company and the McLean Contributionship and CETA funds. In all of the Oral History interviews, the objective was to reveal a life and time in Radnor when it was unhurried and had an unspoiled, open landscape. The interviews were recorded between 1978 and 1982.

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