Language & Life Division
The Roswell Folk & Heritage Bureau is delighted to provide a speaker for your group, in order to encourage awareness and preservation of our traditional culture, customs, and folkways. To arrange a program, please call (770) 640-3253.
 The
Roswell Folk & Heritage Bureau works closely with experts in
Georgia and throughout the South to pull together a dynamic approach to
this fascinating subject. It is our belief that one can’t appropriately
understand an area without understanding the cultures that have blended
to form its dialects, traditions, and customs.
Roswell Voices
A Project of Roswell Folk & Heritage Bureau Language & Life Division
The
dialect with which we speak is a key to knowing our ancestors. Each
area of the country has its own regional dialect. These dialects, in
their truest forms are rapidly changing.
The Roswell Folk
& Heritage Bureau, Language & Life Division, documents
Roswell’s community language through Roswell Voices, an oral history
and dialect awareness program. Working with Bill Kretzschmar (PhD),
professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Georgia, we
have documented many long-time Roswell residents, their dialects and
their stories. We are also documenting community change by comparing
these interviews with interviews from younger generations. The Roswell
Folk & Heritage Bureau, in cooperation with the team from the
University of Georgia, has produced two booklets with accompanying
compact disk of the Roswell Voices Project. |
