About This Item

  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0109-accs
  • SummaryGetting involved with community gardening -- Father’s gardening legacy -- Cleaning up the empty lot -- Involvement with Trust for Public Land -- Learning from other community gardens -- Growing the community at Contented Hart Garden -- Improvements in the garden over time -- Issues with lead in the soil -- Visualizing the garden -- Managing the garden collectively -- Art and music in the garden -- Changes in the local community -- Taking down the locust tree
  • Date2017-01-24
  • Physical Description1 sound file (30 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorForbes, Roslyn
  • 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 January 24, 2017, by Zachary Schulman at the office of Brooklyn Queens Land Trust. 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.
  • PlaceBushwick (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 with Roslyn Forbes on 2017 January 24.