Exploring the Oral History of the Fort Wayne Folk School through its Founder and Former Students

This article focuses on the history of the Fort Wayne Folk School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and its founder Terry Doran. From its outset, the Fort Wayne Folk School incited both excitement and harsh criticism from local authorities and the public. Terry's process of remembering and reclaiming a new narrative for the Fort Wayne Folk School provided a revaluation of his life and work. In this endeavour, oral history is a means to document and engage in dialogical re-imaginings of past events. This reimagining is shaped by the narrator and the interviewer, resulting in a new engagement with the past and a realignment with the present sense of self.