Folks – here is the latest update from the young ladies with the Crown Heights Oral History Project:

Last week we recorded our first interview! Ms. Evangeline Porter.

Ms. Porter made a comparison for us, showing us what Crown Heights has now that it didn’t have then – things like drugs stores, medical offices and other health businesses, for example, are in abundance now. “The community had very little to survive on back then,” she said.

A final word of wisdom from Ms. Porter: “Within the next 10-15 years from now, if people don’t get more involved in what is going on in this community, it is going to go back to the way it was.”

Check out their blog for more information about their interview with Ms. Porter and more about their entire project.  And if anyone wants to be interviewed for this project OR knows someone who should be interviewed, you can call 718-228-7928 or e-mail CrownHeightsHistory@gmail.com.

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