Tell Your Story

Title

Tell Your Story

Subject

Oral history
Stamford (Conn.)

Description

Collection of oral histories collected during the Ferguson Library's Tell Your Story program. Generously funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Creator

The Ferguson Library

Publisher

The Ferguson Library

Contributor

Skornia, Frank J., interviewer

Identifier

FL.tellyourstory

Coverage

Stamford (Conn.)
Twentieth century
Twenty-first century

Collection Items

Ferguson Tell Your Story Interview: Angela
Recording of interview with Angela done on September 26, 2017 at the MLK Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. She speaks about her family and her time in Stamford.

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Supplement: Ana Maria Badash
Typed account written by Ana Maria Badash for the Tell Your Story project at The Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. This was the document Ms. Badash read from during her interview session.

Ms. Badash talks about her family and herself in…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Ana Maria Badash
Recording of interview with Ana Maria Badash done on July 12, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Badash talks about her family and herself in Honduras and the struggles they faced politically. She talks about the work she does…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Ann
Recording of interview with Ann done on July 14, 2017 at The Atlantic apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. Ann speaks about what Stamford was like in the 1950s and 1960s and the changes she has witnessed.

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Susan DiMattia
Recording of interview with Susan DiMattia done on March 21, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. DiMattia speaks about moving to Stamford in the 1970s with her husband and President of the Ferguson Library, Ernest DiMattia. She…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Gil Fagiani and Wayne Russell
Recording of interview with Gil Fagiani and Wayne Russell done on February 27, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Fagiani reads through a prepared memoir document then he and Mr. Russell talk back and forth about their…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Minnie Wilkov
Recording of interview with Minnie Wilkov done on February 16, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Wilkov speaks about raising her family in Stamford through the latter half of the twentieth century and her experiences of the…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Herbert Spirer and Louise Spirer
Recording of interview with Herbert and Louise Spirer done on February 14, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. Spirer speak about moving to Stamford in the 1950s and the changes they have witnessed during that time.

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Thomas Bradford
Recording of interview with Thomas Bradford done on February 8, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Bradford speaks about moving to Stamford in the 1950s and the changes he has experienced while running a barbershop in the West…

Ferguson Library Tell Your Story Interview: Blanche Sumpter
Recording of interview with Blanche Sumpter done on February 8, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Sumpter speaks about moving to Stamford from South Carolina in the 1950s and her experiences living here.
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