Description
- Abstract:
- Ed Hooks discusses growing up in the neighborhood where the Huntington Industrial Park currently stands. Topics covered included childhood play at Mashapaug Pond, gardening and selling produce to local markets, changing topography and streets, ethnic composition of the neighborhood, local churches and schools, and the neighborhood's relationship to the Gorham Manufacturing Company. Interview concludes with an insightful discussion of urban renewal and the ultimate destruction of the former neighborhood.
- Notes:
- Interview site: 15 Rounds Avenue, Providence, RI (interviewee's residence)
Citation
"Interview with Ed Hooks"
(2014).
Mashapaug Pond.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:697638/
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Interview with Ed Hooks
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Interview with Ed Hooks
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Mashapaug Pond
Mashapaug Pond and Reservoir Triangle Collection This collection contains oral history interviews, images, and research materials gathered by Brown University students. The project seeks to uncover personal stories related to the natural, social, and cultural history of Mashapaug Pond (Providence, …...