Joan Flowers, Full Interview

Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Joan Flowers

Date: Time Period: 1930 - 2014; 2014-06-09; Interview recorded: June 9, 2014 Material: Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension: Total running time: 0:40:06

Creator: Joan Flowers interviewed by Marguerite Luizzo Identifier: aql:20951 qmp-jf-full-000005

Description: Margo Luizzo interviews lawyer Joan Flowers who immigrated to Queens from Jamaica, West Indies in 1965. Flowers discusses her family, career, and involvement in the community. She plans to run for a District Leader post, which would allow her to advocate for improvement in her area. Although Flowers originally settled in Springfield Gardens when first arriving in Queens and lived on Long Island while her children were in school, her and her husband have lived in the Addisleigh Park neighborhood in Queens since 2000. This neighborhood, designated a historic district in 2011, was home to many jazz musicians and famous African Americans. Flowers discusses demographics, areas of interest, and her hope for the neighborhood's future prosperity.

Title : Joan Flowers, Full Interview

Collection : aql:20455; aql:21128

Creator : Joan Flowers interviewed by Marguerite Luizzo

Date : Time Period: 1930 - 2014; 2014-06-09; Interview recorded: June 9, 2014

Summary/Description : Margo Luizzo interviews lawyer Joan Flowers who immigrated to Queens from Jamaica, West Indies in 1965. Flowers discusses her family, career, and involvement in the community. She plans to run for a District Leader post, which would allow her to advocate for improvement in her area. Although Flowers originally settled in Springfield Gardens when first arriving in Queens and lived on Long Island while her children were in school, her and her husband have lived in the Addisleigh Park neighborhood in Queens since 2000. This neighborhood, designated a historic district in 2011, was home to many jazz musicians and famous African Americans. Flowers discusses demographics, areas of interest, and her hope for the neighborhood's future prosperity.

Subject : Oral history; Neighborhoods; Demographic transition; Local government; Flowers, Neville

Relation : Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Joan Flowers

Rights : Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Saint Albans, Addisleigh Park, Springfield Gardens and Rosedale, Queens, NY Addisleigh Park Jamaica Saint Albans (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using Zoom H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:40:06

Identifier : aql:20951 qmp-jf-full-000005