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Fred Calabretta
Fred Calabretta is Associate Curator of Collections and Oral Historian at
Mystic Seaport, and previously worked for nine years as the Museum’s
Sound Archivist. In addition to his experience with audio visual materials,
he has worked extensively with object, photographic, library, and archival
collections since 1980. He served as co-curator for Mystic Seaport’s
signature exhibition, “Voyages: Stories of America and the Sea” and
curated an exhibition titled the “Stonington Fishing Fleet: Tradition
and Transition,” which was based on a three-year oral history project
documenting the lives and traditions of Connecticut’s last remaining
commercial fishing fleet.
He has conducted several hundred audio and video oral history interviews,
and directed a number of oral history projects. He is past-president of the
New England Association of Oral History, past-chair of the Oral History Section
of the Society of American Archivists, and has been an instructor for the Museum
and Library Archives Institute in Massachusetts since 1994. Fred has presented
oral history workshops and training, often sponsored by SAA, for a wide range
of organizations throughout the country. His publications include the Guide
to the Oral History Collections at Mystic Seaport Museum, published in 1992.
He has contributed a chapter on oral history for Museum
Archives, 2nd ed.,
recently published by SAA, and is principal author of a book based upon Mystic
Seaport’s Stonington Fishing Oral History Project, scheduled for publication
in July 2004.
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