Our First Meeting

We just had our first meeting with the local senior citizens of Mentone, AL, with a great turnout of 25 participants, including one of the oldest members of the community, a 94 year old woman. We are looking forward to hearing her many memories of life in Mentone. After cookies and tea, Dr. Bill Berry, a Mentone resident, former principal, and current employee of Camp DeSoto introduced the project and shared why he cared about the project. I then shared the basic premise of "The Mentone Collective" which is to facilitate inter-generational relationships and understanding through interactive video media. We will meet regularly throughout the summer to record the thoughts, stories, and memories of the community. Then everyone, some timid and some zealous, tried out the Ultra HD Flip video and Kodak Zi8 video cameras on each other with the directive to share their first memory. We learned some fascinating things, where two members realized they were related, to some great laughs about some mischief that went on when they were teens. We look forward to learning and sharing with the DeSoto and Mentone community this summer.