- 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)