Tuesday, April 12, 2011

2nd visit with Florence


This time as we visited Florence, it was as if we were helping out our grandma sort out her files. Kate and i arrived at Florence with the agenda of video taping Florence for the video to benefit the CCCR. We gave her time to just think about everything and just relax before we got started with that. While Florence was busy with that, Kate and I went to the "archive" room. Mainly the room where she keeps all of her documents, book, and awards. She was this sort of old dusty Filing shelf with cubby's that each contained news letter issues that the CCCR mailed out to people along with flires as well. Most of them were dusty but it was really fun reading through the issues which some were labeled as late as the 70s. We were to get one of each issue so that we could make some type of binder for the refugee to have some sort of documentation. This sort of took a while since two were missing but, it was good enough for now. After we finished up with collecting all that we could, we started the interview. Kate and i switched off asking Florence a few basic questions which we built off from to create a good conversation. It was great to hear about how exactly she got involved with the refugee and how she took the time to learn more on the issue of wetlands being taken advantage of. After the interview though, we were able to actually go visit LaRiviere Marsh. Kate walked with Florence most of the time while Ryan and I took footage of the mash. it was really different feeling now that i have finally visited refugee that i get more of an idea to what we're doing, what we're trying to help fight for.

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