This Is Home Now: An Interview with Arwen Donahue (2019)
Mariam interviews Arwen Donahue, visual artist and oral historian, about her 2009 work This Is Home Now: Kentucky’s Holocaust Survivors Speak. They discuss the experience of interviewing survivors, and their lives in Kentucky. Arwen and Mariam also discuss Arwen’s upcoming projects depicting rural life in Kentucky. This Is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak is available to view in the Kentucky Room and for check out here: https://catalog.lexpublib.org/?section=resource&resourceid=1184055
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