Title Information
Title
Interview with Ralph Simmons
Name: Personal
Name Part
Ettelman, Abigail
Role
Role Term: Text
interviewer
Name: Personal
Name Part
Simmons, Ralph
Role
Role Term: Text
interviewee
Type of Resource
mixed material
Origin Information
Date Created (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2013-03-13
Physical Description
Extent
2 sound recordings + 1 PDF
Abstract
This interview discusses Simmons' experience growing up in the area that is now the industrial park and his family history. He discusses various cultural aspects of living by the pond - games, baptisms, and so on. As a 90 year old, he also discusses the differences in the different areas of the city that he has lived in. He discusses the changes in the area and what it was like to live there from the 1910s to 1930s. The interview is divided into two parts, both recorded at the same session. The transcript includes both parts.
Note: venue
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, Brown University, 357 Benefit Street.
Note
Other person/people mentioned in interview: June Simmons-McRae; Andrew Bell; Holly Ewald
Genre (aat) (authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
oral histories (literary works)