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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0019-accs
  • Summary(0:46) Getting involved in the Woodbine Street Block Association Garden -- (2:54) Upgrades to the garden -- (3:50) Garden etiquette -- (5:35) Community events -- (07:02) Diversifying neighborhood, diversifying garden -- (8:38) Changing weather and environment, heat and mosquitos -- (9:57) Challenge of recruiting new participants -- (10:46) Types of plants in the garden -- (11:38) Cindy's Corner -- (12:02) Solace in the garden -- (13:41) Offering food cooked from garden ingredients -- (15:14) Desire for more connection -- (15:47) Encouraging community involvement in the garden -- (17:00) Advice to future gardeners -- (18:25) Helping new residents acclimate to the area -- (19:55) Nippie Green, "Unity Under Fire" article about formation of the Woodbine Street Block Association in the 1960s and Bushwick fires in the 1970s -- (20:50) Moving to Woodbine Street in the 1980s -- (21:20) Getting to know Miss Green -- (21:49) Missing the old timers -- (23:25) Relaxing in the garden -- (24:35) Participating in Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Brooklyn Queens Land Trust activities and meetings.
  • Date2016-08-12
  • Physical Description1 sound file (26 min.) : digital, MP3
  • CreatorCourts, Margie and Hoskins, Barbara
  • 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 August 12, 2016, by Samantha Feldman at Washington Irving Library. 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.
  • SubjectCommunity gardens ; Gardening ; Horticulture ; Plant diversity ; Community development ; Citizens’ associations ; Older people ; Trust for Public Land (U.S.) ; Brooklyn Botanic Garden ; Arson ; Older People ; Aging
  • 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 conducted with Margie Courts and Barbara Hoskins on 2016 August 12.