Dr. Sandra Faulkner, professor of Media and Communication at BGSU, will share "Portraits of Older Women in the Great Black Swamp." This is a collaborative project with The Wood County Committee on Aging, the BGSU archives and local women which focuses on how women have contributed to Bowling Green, Ohio and the surrounding communities. Faulkner interviewed prominent older women in the Bowling Green area about their experiences across the life course and their contributions to our community. She will discuss the importance of oral histories and listening to older women by presenting poetic portraits of older women in the Bowling Green area that she cocreated from oral histories.