Queens Library Podcasts

The oral histories in this third episode move, by trains, boats, and planes, across oceans and land. In this episode, we’ll hear stories about travel—physical movements and how we embody our histories. We found two collections in our archives that we decided to feature in this episode. These interviews struck us in the detail and specificity they offered in stories about travelling to and arriving in New York. The first set of oral histories comes from the Woodside Irish Oral History Project recorded throughout 2015, and the second from a March 2017 family collection by Queens Memory volunteer Stephanie Fortino Gonzalez. Together, these stories span about a decade and a half of memories, from 1950 to 1966. With these memories, we want to think about how our specific historical circumstances shape where we go and how we get there. Learn more about Queens Memory at http://queensmemory.org.