Description
- Abstract:
- Manuel J. "Head" Bairos, born in November 1928, lived in a number of neighborhoods within Fox Point. In the 1950s he moved to East Providence and worked for the U.S. Post Office for thirty years. He also pursued higher education at Rhode Island College. He is an active member of "The Players" of the Barker Playhouse on Benefit Street and a member of the Portuguese American Social Club. He recounts many stories about the Boys' Club, the slave trade, and the geographic changes of Fox Point while he was growing up in the neighborhood.
Citation
"Interview with Manny Bairos"
(2009).
Fox Point Project.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:1149911/
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Biography of Manuel Bairos
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Transcript of interview with Manuel Bairos
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Interview with Manny Bairos
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Fox Point Project
Since 2008, students from the Brown Center for Public Humanities have worked with Professor Anne Valk on collaborative projects to preserve and present the cultural heritage and social history of the Fox Point neighborhood. An archival collection of oral history …...