ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes history as “living and moving.” This term means that history cannot be fully captured in reproductions of the past, or sanitized museum displays of “the way things were.” Oral history captures how people with long personal histories in relation to a historical situation (in this case a historical building) have their own interior identities in relation to that reality over the years. As for generalizability, this chapter not only explains how to capture oral histories as living and moving, but also provides a philosophical basis to understand how the “thingly-ness” of a structure can be different for different people.
