Sit down and listen to your nanna! Interviews are a precious form of oral history: a combination of remembering and forgetting, story and silence. So says Director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries, Douglas Boyd. His Oral History: A Very Short Introduction looks at the preservation of voices and memories through interviews and storytelling. Boyd is a recent president of the Oral History Association and author of Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community (2011). Photo: University of Kentucky