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Robert Trabold, Clip 4: "Empty Store"

Collection: This recording is part of the Robert Trabold Oral History and is available in digital audio.
Date: Time Period: 2011; 2011; Interview recorded: December 5, 2011 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity software. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:26
Creator: Bob Trabold interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:26273 trabold-robert-clip4

Description: Bob Trabold lives again in his childhood home in Jamaica after a 30-year absence. His memories of the neighborhood are enriched by his early bike deliveries for his father's butcher shop. His neighborhood has changed a great deal since his boyhood and this change is the subject of his poem, "Empty Store."

Collection : aql:16084; aql:20455

Creator : Bob Trabold interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 2011; 2011; Interview recorded: December 5, 2011

Summary/Description : Bob Trabold lives again in his childhood home in Jamaica after a 30-year absence. His memories of the neighborhood are enriched by his early bike deliveries for his father's butcher shop. His neighborhood has changed a great deal since his boyhood and this change is the subject of his poem, "Empty Store."

Subject : Poetry; Neighborhoods; Nostalgia; Oral interpretation of poetry

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Jamaica, NY Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity software.; Total running time: 0:02:26

Identifier : aql:26273 trabold-robert-clip4

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Poetry; Neighborhoods; Nostalgia; Oral interpretation of poetry

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact qc.archives@qc.cuny.edu for research and reproduction requests.


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