The Oral History Program was founded in 1980 at the Port Washington Public Library to capture on tape the memories of those people who have shaped Port Washington’s history, and to preserve that memory for future generations.
The Oral History Collection now holds more than 200 interviews and 8,000 pages of transcript, each indexed and summarized. View names and catalog records listed by theme:
Aviation History and Folk Traditions
The Port Washington Business Community
Port Washington Public Library History
Port Washington Volunteer Fire Department
September 11 Oral History Project
Many audio files and interview transcripts from our Oral History collections have been digitized and are available to browse on our New York Heritage Digital Collections page. More are being added all the time, so be sure to check back!