Veronica Smith, Clip 1: Growing Up Without Mom
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Veronica Smith
Date: Time Period: 2017; 2017-02-14; Interview recorded: February 14 2017
Material: Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2;ZOOM H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:04:30
Creator: Veronica Smith interviewed by Omar Ndiaye
Identifier: aql:21616 smith_veronica_clip1
Description: Ms. Smith's mother left her and her younger siblings when Ms. Smith was eleven years old. Her mother never told Veronica why she left and she and her siblings were taken to live with their grandmother. She describes how all of those hard times helped her to be independent, and transmit to everybody the idea that every goal is reachable regardless of all the obstacles and limits that we can face.
Creator :
Veronica Smith interviewed by Omar Ndiaye
Date :
Time Period: 2017; 2017-02-14; Interview recorded: February 14 2017
Summary/Description :
Ms. Smith's mother left her and her younger siblings when Ms. Smith was eleven years old. Her mother never told Veronica why she left and she and her siblings were taken to live with their grandmother. She describes how all of those hard times helped her to be independent, and transmit to everybody the idea that every goal is reachable regardless of all the obstacles and limits that we can face.
Subject :
Grief
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Cambria Heights, Queens, NY Cambria Heights (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using ZOOM H2;ZOOM H2 digital recorder and Adobe Soundbooth.; Total running time: 0:04:30
Identifier :
aql:21616 smith_veronica_clip1
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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