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Carol Lee Whiting, Clip 1: Growing Fruit in Flushing

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Carol Lee Whiting
Date: Time Period: 1943 - 1960; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:40
Creator: Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20547 whiting_carol_lee_clip1

Description: Carol Lee Whiting remembers the fruit trees that grew on her family's Flushing property during her childhood, and how her mother canned and preserved a variety of fruits and jellies for later use. The family was also able to pick wild pumpkins that grew on open land in the neighborhood.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20685

Creator : Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1943 - 1960; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012

Summary/Description : Carol Lee Whiting remembers the fruit trees that grew on her family's Flushing property during her childhood, and how her mother canned and preserved a variety of fruits and jellies for later use. The family was also able to pick wild pumpkins that grew on open land in the neighborhood.

Subject : Fruit trees; Canning and preserving

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (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.; Total running time: 0:02:40

Identifier : aql:20547 whiting_carol_lee_clip1

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Fruit trees; Canning and preserving

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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