Buckhead is fortunate to be full of longtime residents who witnessed the evolution of the community over the years.

“A lot of these folks that grew up in Buckhead, … they’re getting older and a lot of those stories of how they transformed Buckhead and their memories of Buckhead are unfortunately fading as they pass away,” said Chad Wright, secretary of the Buckhead Heritage Society, an nonprofit whose mission is to preserve history in the community.

With the help of volunteers, the organization and Wright are revamping a program started in August to record and document community members’ oral accounts of their life in the community.

“We thought it was a critical time to vamp up the program to capture these people’s stories,” said Wright.

The program has already conducted five interviews with transcripts available on the organization’s Web site.

Buckhead resident Mose Bond was one of the first interviewees to participate. He retired last year after 47 years with SunTrust Bank.

“During that time I saw a lot of changes in city and in the bank,” he said. “[The interview] was really my observations about those years.”

He said he believes in what the organization is trying to accomplish from the project, but was personally inspired as well.

“When you sit down and chat for that long a period time, you recall things you haven’t thought of in a long time and I enjoyed recalling those things,” he said. “I had a good time reminiscing.”

By collecting all this raw video and audio, Wright said, he hopes the project could lead to something bigger in addition to making it available to the public. “As we grow in capabilities, there will be a lot of raw video. We’d like to hopefully one day have a nice documentary put together about Buckhead,” he said.

He also said there were ideas about launching a podcast with the audio clips as well as getting grants to assist the project.

Wright said the stories trace the evolution of the community — from the time it was just an agrarian outpost of Atlanta until it grew to be an economic engine for the city in a span of 60 years.

He said the organization has already compiled a list of residents to interview, but are still willing to take suggestions.

Information: e-mail info@buckheadheritage.com or visit www.buckheadheritagesociety.com