Editing Snowy Mountains Scheme (section)

=== Personal stories and memoirs of work on the Snowy Scheme ===
Various stories and memoirs have been written about work on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. [[Siobhan McHugh]]'s social history, ''The Snowy: The People Behind the Power''<ref>{{cite book |first=Siobhan |last= McHugh |title=The Snowy: The People Behind the Power |via=Heinemann |orig-year=1989 |publisher=Harper Collins |year=1995}}</ref> is the most prominent, having been awarded the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction and being the source of an ABC radio documentary series (1987) and a Film Australia documentary, ''Snowy, A Dream of Growing Up'' (1989).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://siobhanmchugh.org/the-snowy/ |website=Siobhan McHugh |title=The SNOWY |first=Siobhan |last=McHugh|date=6 January 2012 }}</ref> Her book is based on about 90 oral histories with former Snowy workers and residents, with original recordings archived as a research collection at the State Library of New South Wales. An updated 70th anniversary edition of her book was [https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/snowy/ published] by New South in 2019 and its content showcased by Richard Fidler in an [https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/siobhan-mchugh/11089604 interview] with McHugh for his popular ABC podcast, Conversations. Most recently, [[Snowy Hydro]], Woden Community Service, Gen S Stories and PhotoAccess partnered for a Digital Storytelling project to present a diverse collection of stories told from the point of view of seven ex-workers, two lifelong employees and a child of a Snowy worker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wcs.org.au/whats-on-at-wcs/latest-news/327-premiere-of-snowy-stories-from-former-workers-and-families-of-the-snowy-mountains-scheme|title=Premiere of Snowy Stories from former workers and families of the Snowy Mountains Scheme|date=29 May 2018|website=Woden Community Service|access-date=11 July 2018}}</ref>

As part of the project, participants created short films about their experience on the Snowy Scheme, each story offering a unique perspective into what life was like building the Scheme between 1949 and 1974. The project's artistic director Jenni Savigny assisted participants to make the short films; enabling them to put together the scripts, record voice overs and edit the short films. In an interview with Andrew Brown ([[The Canberra Times]]), Savigny said it was important to create a history of the Snowy Hydro using the participant's own words, "You just get a personal sense of what it was like to be there, and what it meant to people's lives."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/canberra-news/personal-stories-of-snowy-hydro-workers-to-be-told-in-new-film-project-20180413-p4z9fh.html|title=Personal stories of Snowy Hydro workers to be told in new film project|last=Brown|first=Andrew|date=15 April 2018|website=The Canberra Times|access-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711061621/https://www.canberratimes.com.au/canberra-news/personal-stories-of-snowy-hydro-workers-to-be-told-in-new-film-project-20180413-p4z9fh.html|archive-date=11 July 2018|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

The films premiered 7 June 2018 at the Palace Electric Cinema in [[Acton, Australian Capital Territory|New Acton]] in Canberra and can be viewed on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn3SJqq7R60&list=PLnSXiCsKc_cK5ExaT0yX5G3WBF23bZSv7 Woden Community Service YouTube] Channel.