An oral history from your street

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Brief

One recorded conversation with someone who holds your neighborhood's memory: the shop owner, the crossing guard, the neighbor who has been here forty years. Edited with care into a listenable episode. You ask the questions and make the cuts; the agent helps you prepare and plan the edit. This is someone else's story in their voice, so their consent runs through every step.

Personalize

• The person. Someone you already greet. Knocking cold on a stranger's door is a different and harder project.
• What only they know. What the corner looked like before the building, who ran the old shop, what changed and when. Write your questions from curiosity about your own street.
• The setting. Their shop, their porch, wherever they are at ease. Street noise in the background can stay; it is the setting.

Milestones

1. The person asked, the project explained, recording and publishing both agreed to.
2. Questions drafted by you, workshopped, cut to a page.
3. The conversation recorded where they are comfortable.
4. Edited into an episode, with a short recorded intro by you naming who they are and where this is.
5. They hear the cut and approve it, then published at a URL or feed.

Done means

• Live at a public URL or feed
• The person consented on tape or in writing, and heard the episode before release
• Their voice carries the episode; your edits serve their story
• Names, dates, and places stay as they said them
• The episode notes, in your words, say who this is and why you asked