Summary(0:15) Memories of Midwood SING! -- (0:37) Intra-high school competition -- (1:10) Party weekend -- (1:26) Playing in the band for SING! -- (1:58) Staying out all night for the first time -- (2:39) Band leader Fred Zarr -- (3:31) Racial tension in the news and politics in the 1970s -- (3:54) Midwood Swingers show -- (4:20) First time at Central Library and checking out albums -- (5:10) Discovering blues -- (6:28) Raising daughters in the 1990s -- (6:47) People in the neighborhood looking out for one another -- (7:07) Changes in the way kids are measured and diagnosed today -- (8:07) Gratitude for having stayed in New York.
NoteAudio interview conducted on October 15, 2016, by Taina Evans at Midwood High School. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
SubjectNineteen seventies ; Graduation (School) ; Theatre ; Youth development ; High school musicals ; Davis, Miles ; Hendrix, Jimi ; Madonna, 1958- ; King, Evelyn Champagne ; Kashif ; Stylistics (Musical group) ; Brooklyn Public Library ; Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) ; Broadway Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.) ; Yankovic, Al, 1959- ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 ; Parties ; Bands (Music) ; Blues (Music) ; Who (Musical group) ; Clapton, Eric ; Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982 ; Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938 ; Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ; Gangs ; Public libraries
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TitleOral history interview conducted with Howard Seligman on 2016 October 15.