Rosendale Heart & Soul Interviews
Central to Rosendale Heart & Souls’ mission is to gather stories and ideas about Rosendale for the community to better understand itself. We collected 1,000 interviews by September 2025!
Click here to read some of the interviews in our blog!
The Interview questions are close to what we ask on our postcard (or virtual postcard as the case may be), but of course, live interviews have much more space for ideas and back-and-forth.
What was our interview process?
- Recordings and photographs from interviews were sent from phones to our Data Team.
- Data Team ran the recordings through a transcriber ap.
- Data Team did a light editing for extraneous noise and conversation.
- Listening Team read each interview and lightly edited them, with an eye to making an interview more understandable. The only things we might have removed from interviews were
- reflexive repetition (you know, like, I think…..),
- people’s last names,
- words that the speaker immediately corrects (“what I really mean is….”).
- Interview transcriptions and any photos were posted on our website to share with the community.
The next project phase involved analyzing the interviews and focusing on 1) what matters most, 2) hopes and concerns, and 3) ideas for action.