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Cedar Mill & Bethany Libraries Podcasts

106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

The Cedar Mill Library's podcasts include teen book discussions, library performances, oral histories from local immigrants, and discussions with the founders of the library about its origins. The Cedar Mill Library is a nonprofit community library located in the Portland Oregon metropolitan area.

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Episodes

CMCL Book Discussion Eldest

March 07, 2011 00:30 - 11 minutes - 15.4 MB

Dragons and quests are the topics in this book discussion with Stoller Middle School students.  The students discuss the second book of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance trilogy, Eldest.

Oral History 2009 Alice Kern

February 25, 2011 18:33 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MB

Alice Kern grew up in a Romanian Jewish community. She survived the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during the War, and later settled in Portland, Oregon after her recovery.  As part of Oregon's sesquicentennial, Cedar Mill Community Library recorded interviews with local immigrants to learn about their experiences coming to and living in America. This is one of our interview from 2009.

Oral History 2009 Reinhart & Wilhelma Engelmann

February 25, 2011 17:50 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MB

Reinhart discusses his work in the high tech fields and being a professor.  He also talks about life during and after World War II in Germany.  Wilhelma discusses what life in the U.S. was like for a mother raising her children in a foreign country with limited English language skills.  As part of Oregon's sesquicentennial, Cedar Mill Community Library recorded interviews with local immigrants to learn about their experiences coming to and living in America. This is one of our interview from...

Oral History 2009 Chris Gniewosz

December 29, 2010 17:43 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MB

A Canadian immigrant of Polish heritage, Chris Gniewosz discusses his family's flight from Poland after World War II and their efforts to settle in Portland, Oregon.  As part of Oregon's sesquicentennial, Cedar Mill Community Library recorded interviews with local immigrants to learn about their experiences coming to and living in America. This is one of our interview from 2009.

Oral History 2009 Elin Helene Simmons

December 29, 2010 17:34 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB

Elin Helene Simmons tells of her parents, who immigrated from Sweden and Norway to the US.  She discusses her family and the differences between her parents' home countries and the US.  As part of Oregon's sesquicentennial, Cedar Mill Community Library recorded interviews with local immigrants to learn about their experiences coming to and living in America. This is one of our interview from 2009.

Oral History 2009 Chann Noun

December 29, 2010 17:27 - 38 minutes - 53.1 MB

Chann Noun is a local immigrant from Cambodia.  He struggled under the Khmer Rouge regime and for 4 years in a refugee camp before he was able to come to the US.  As part of Oregon's sesquicentennial, Cedar Mill Community Library recorded interviews with local immigrants to learn about their experiences coming to and living in America. This is one of our interview from 2009.