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Pinole Valley High School Student
Completes Oral History Project
January this year, Pinole Valley High School senior Olivia Lubinger participated in the Pinole Historical
Society’s Oral History Project, designed to give students an opportunity to learn more about their family
history and contribute to the society’s historical archives.
The society is seeking oral histories of families that have more recently moved to Pinole, as opposed to the
histories of Pinole’s pioneer families from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Olivia interviewed her mother, Christina Chavez, whose oral history has been archived on the Pinole
Historical Society’s YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/0mOUvgFlrp4
As part of the project, Olivia was required to write an essay to accompany her video interview, to ascertain
what she learned about her family and about Pinole’s history, and why it’s important to her.
PINOLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT
By Olivia Lubinger
Pinole Valley High School
I have lived on the same street, in the same house, in the same small city of Pinole my whole life. Pinole is where
I took my first steps and made my best friends. I will graduate and leave Pinole in a matter of a few short months,
but, more importantly, I will always come back to Pinole.
I have known that Pinole played an important role in my mother’s life, too; however, through interviewing her I
was able to see just what the city of Pinole was like and how it shaped her into the woman I know.
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