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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0016-accs
  • Summary(1:02) Growing up on North Carolina farm -- (2:15) Cleaning abandoned lot in 1990s – (3:20) Becoming garden manager -- (3:50) Improving the garden -- (4:30) Gifting vegetables to the neighborhood -- (7:00) Brooklyn Queens Land Trust -- (8:08) Garden ownership and administration -- (9:30) Bess Myerson -- (12:12) House price inflation – (12:45) White flight and gentrification -- (14:50) Barbecues for the kids -- (15:20) Aging of the community -- (16:21) Types of vegetables in the garden – (21:45) Rewarding things about the garden -- (24:35) Advice for future garden members.
  • Date2016-07-29
  • Physical Description1 sound file (27 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorBarnes, Charles and Gladney, Jesse
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • Digital Public Library of AmericaThis item is represented in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on July 29, 2016, by Samantha Fedlman at Garden of Angels. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This interview stems from a shared partnership with Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn Queens Land Trust under the name of Our Gardens, Our Stories.
  • SubjectNineteen nineties ; Community gardens ; Abandoned buildings ; Gardening ; Farms ; Community development--New York (State)--Brooklyn ; Vegetables ; Gentrification ; Inflation ; Plants ; Youth development ; Aging
  • PlaceBushwick (New York, N.Y.)Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Users are free to share and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes as long as appropriate credit is given to the source and new material created with this work is shared under the same conditions.
  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Charles Barnes and Jesse Gladney on 2016 July 29.