Oral Histories from the Black Communities (transcripts)
2008 – 2010 (Earliest/Latest dates)
Collection of oral history transcripts prepared by the donor after interviewing several relatives and neighbors with her friend Iva Allison. The transcripts have been edited slightly for consistency and are presented as one manuscript (64 pages)
I. Delia (Sales) Jubrey and Patricia (Sales) Narcisse, interviewed June 24, 2008
II. Lenora (Jackson) Jubrey, interviewed August 12, 2008
III. Ralph Bradley, interviewed August 13, 2008
IV. Irene (Scott) Caesar, interviewed August 30, 2008
V. Lois Ethel (Niles) Scott, interviewed February 14, 2010
Brief summaries:
I. Delia Jubrey and her sister Patricia Narcisse talk about their home on Williams St., their neighbors in the Cook Hill Rd. area, mom and pop stores, their relatives and extended family, lawn parties, home delivery and itinerant salesmen, the unspoken boundaries beyond which it was not comfortable for African Americans, Windsor Center, schooling, AME Zion Church, and working tobacco. Both Dee and Patty moved out of Windsor after high school, but have returned to live in Windsor. (19 pages)
II. Lenora Jubrey was born on Cook Hill. Her mother had worked for Amy Archer Gilligan but was institutionalized at Middletown State Hospital and she was raised by an aunt. She talks about her schooling at John Fitch High School, taking a secretarial course, not being able to get a job at the big insurance companies in Hartford, and doing domestic work much of her life. She comments on the types of work her neighbors did, lawn parties, family doctors, the Cymerys' neighborhood store, alcoholism, and the Hartford Circus Fire in 1944. (16 pages)
III. Ralph Bradley's home was in Hayden Station. He worked at the Bigelow Carpet Company in Thomsonville, CT and then did odd jobs and labored in the area. (2 pages)
IV. Irene Caesar is prompted by photos in an album to comment on her neighborhood on Cook Hill, her schooling, the Depression, and the Miskin family corner store. (4 pages)
V. Lois Scott complains of the frustrations of being elderly. Using family photos as a prompt, the interviewers get her to talk about various family members, her grandmother Susan Niles and her Native American heritage, going to church, experiences of discrimination, the Cook Hill neighborhood, and working as a home duty nurse. Family names which were mentioned in the interviews include Bednarz, Brown, Caesar, Cooper, Cymerys, Elkey, Jones, Jubrey, Niles, Parlapiano, Sales, Saunders, Scott, Sharp, Toer, Vick, and Wilson.
I. Delia (Sales) Jubrey and Patricia (Sales) Narcisse, interviewed June 24, 2008
II. Lenora (Jackson) Jubrey, interviewed August 12, 2008
III. Ralph Bradley, interviewed August 13, 2008
IV. Irene (Scott) Caesar, interviewed August 30, 2008
V. Lois Ethel (Niles) Scott, interviewed February 14, 2010
Brief summaries:
I. Delia Jubrey and her sister Patricia Narcisse talk about their home on Williams St., their neighbors in the Cook Hill Rd. area, mom and pop stores, their relatives and extended family, lawn parties, home delivery and itinerant salesmen, the unspoken boundaries beyond which it was not comfortable for African Americans, Windsor Center, schooling, AME Zion Church, and working tobacco. Both Dee and Patty moved out of Windsor after high school, but have returned to live in Windsor. (19 pages)
II. Lenora Jubrey was born on Cook Hill. Her mother had worked for Amy Archer Gilligan but was institutionalized at Middletown State Hospital and she was raised by an aunt. She talks about her schooling at John Fitch High School, taking a secretarial course, not being able to get a job at the big insurance companies in Hartford, and doing domestic work much of her life. She comments on the types of work her neighbors did, lawn parties, family doctors, the Cymerys' neighborhood store, alcoholism, and the Hartford Circus Fire in 1944. (16 pages)
III. Ralph Bradley's home was in Hayden Station. He worked at the Bigelow Carpet Company in Thomsonville, CT and then did odd jobs and labored in the area. (2 pages)
IV. Irene Caesar is prompted by photos in an album to comment on her neighborhood on Cook Hill, her schooling, the Depression, and the Miskin family corner store. (4 pages)
V. Lois Scott complains of the frustrations of being elderly. Using family photos as a prompt, the interviewers get her to talk about various family members, her grandmother Susan Niles and her Native American heritage, going to church, experiences of discrimination, the Cook Hill neighborhood, and working as a home duty nurse. Family names which were mentioned in the interviews include Bednarz, Brown, Caesar, Cooper, Cymerys, Elkey, Jones, Jubrey, Niles, Parlapiano, Sales, Saunders, Scott, Sharp, Toer, Vick, and Wilson.
2010.019.002