The Historic Saluda Oral History Committee has announced a release date for its inaugural oral history DVD entitled “Home, Hearth & History: Stories of Old Saluda.”
Copies of the DVD will be available at the film’s premiere scheduled for July 2  at 5 p.m. at the Saluda Mountain Jamboree. The premiere is being held prior to the Saluda 130th Birthday Celebration square dance that will be held that same night at 7 p.m.
Eljapa Media Group has worked with the oral history committee to record more than 14 hours of oral history video interviews, copied hundreds of old photographs from private collections and received more than a dozen original cassette tapes of interviews conducted by Charlene Pace and Anne Osborne for their 1981 book, “Saluda, N.C. 100 Years 1881-1981.”
Participating in the inaugural DVD are Martha Anderson, Bill Russell, John Rhodes, Dr. George Jones, Charlene Pace, Henry Twiggs, Martha Ashley, Betty Pace Thompson and Ruth Pace Lawter.
The committee hopes future interviews will be compiled into additional DVDs and then archived on a Historic Saluda website.
The City of Saluda provided seed money to launch this project and donors helped fund the remaining cost of the grassroots project.
The oral history committee is a subcommittee of the Historic Saluda Committee, founded in May 2010 by interested citizens, operating under the jurisdiction of the City of Saluda.
Admission to the film premiere is free; however, donations will be accepted to help with costs of future oral history interviews.
A small fee will be charged for admission to the square dance.
For more information, contact Cindy Stephenson Tuttle at cindystuttle@gmail.com or call the City of Saluda at 828-749-2581.
– article submitted by Historic Saluda Oral History Committee