The stars of Part 1 – Lucy & L. D. Keen
Six years ago, Tony DiNuzzo and I sojourned into East Texas to interview people who had lived all of their long lives in those piney woods. Helped by kindly AHEC staff members who arranged the interviews and guided us from place to place, we interviewed a married couple and two widows. We ended up with three stories, all different, all fascinating.
For the next three weeks, I’m going to feature one of the stories and we will base Wednesday’s discussion on that film. The segments are each approximately 20 minutes long and viewed directly in this window. Part 1 is below.
Across all three parts the people interviewed were:
- Mr. L. D. and Mrs. Lucy Keen
- Mrs. Mae Settler
- Mrs. Lois Dyes
The interviews were arranged by:
- Carlene Wilson and Shelly Milner at East Texas Health Access Network
- Kinny Parker at Piney Woods Area Health Education Center
- Deborah Flaniken at East Texas Area Health Education Center and Kathy Strong, Nacogdoches Treatment Center
(Join us for a discussion about part 1 of Lives Lived in East Texas on Wednesday, August 29, 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Link to the meeting room: http://tinyurl.com/cjfx9ag. Also, see Discussion and SL tabs above for details)
Rodger Marion 
August 29, 2012 at 8:21 am
Transcript of Weekly Discussion on Aging – August 29, 2012
[05:34] Rodger Markova: Good morning Rebecca
[05:35] Rodger Markova: I am coming to the conclusion that I need to choose another time for this discussion.
[05:35] Saphira Avindar: Ideas about what time?
[05:36] Rodger Markova: My first thought is to keep it in the morning, so say 8:15 a.m. on the idea to do this before the rest of the day gets going. 8:15 would let people get settled at the office and get coffee.
[05:37] Saphira Avindar: That is plausible
[05:37] Rodger Markova: Worth a try for a few weeks.
[05:38] Rodger Markova: So, what did you think of LD and Lucy Keen?
[05:40] Saphira Avindar: I need to download the video on my computer. I usually read blog from my phone in between tasks. I will catch up on this interesting series for next week
[05:41] Rodger Markova: kk. I understand. I can read the blog and get the video on my iPhone
[05:42] Saphira Avindar: I have had a few issues with my Blackberry; think I need to upgrade (4 years old now).
[05:43] Rodger Markova: WordPress the software that hosts the blog has an app for the iPhone and it works quite well.
[05:44] Saphira Avindar: How did you and Tony get the idea for the video series? How did you select the interviewees?
[05:44] Rodger Markova: I forget whose idea it was but Tony and I talked about this for quite a long time as a way for students to get to see rural elderly.
[05:46] Rodger Markova: We initially contacted Mary Wainwright at the ETAHEC and she talked with the regional AHEC people and they identified the subjects, set up the interviews in their homes and guided Tony and I around.
[05:47] Saphira Avindar: I imagine these interviews would be useful for different activities
[05:48] Rodger Markova: Yes, we had the subjects talk about their life story and their current health care situation. So, each is different, interesting and raise different issues. All the subjects were articulate, charming and extremely open to us. It was an amazing process actually.
[05:50] Saphira Avindar: Did they all get the same questions; or is each interview a different focus?
[05:51] Rodger Markova: Tony had a prepared list of questions and he went over them with the subjects while I was setting up to film. So, he revised and improvised as the process unfolded.
[05:52] Rodger Markova: That way the subjects were prepared and the interviews all flowed smoothly and it gave everyone something to do for the hour or so I takes me to set up a shoot.
[05:53] Rodger Markova: So, they all focus on life stories and current health but all are different.
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[05:58] Rodger Markova: I think I’ll try 8:15 for the next two weeks and see.
[06:00] Rodger Markova: Thank you for being here today.
[06:03] Saphira Avindar: See you then. 🙂
A note about times: Second Life counts time from California, thus the time stamps on the chat log are two hours earlier. We did not actually start at 5:30 in the morning.