- Title Information
- Title
- Interview with Ed Hooks
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hooks, Ed
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Soules, Rebecca
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 2014-03-24
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
venue
(displayLabel="Interview site")
- 15 Rounds Avenue, Providence, RI (interviewee's residence)
- Genre (aat)
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- oral histories (literary works)