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  • Call NumberOSOS_OH_0077-accs
  • TitleOral history interview conducted with Filomena Capobianco on 2017 March 23.
  • Summary(0:20) Growing up in a poor family on a farm in Italy -- (1:02) Working from an early age -- (1:34) Taking care of siblings -- (2:48) Moved to Downtown Brooklyn when 11 years old -- (3:45) Going to Special Ed class, and then working making hats and scarfs -- (5:46) Moving to Canarsie -- (6:08) Advantages of owning a house -- (6:52) Leaving parents home at 37 -- (7:47) Moving to Bensonhurst with sister -- (8:19) Moving frequently for some years -- (9:12) Formerly Italian neighborhood, now majority Chinese -- (9:47) Lives with her sister who cares for their mother -- (10:23) Frequents Senior Center to job search and take exercise classes -- (11:42) Epilepsy preventing getting a job -- (12:43) Wanting to better herself -- (14:21) Senior center being like a home -- (15:39) Good things about Brooklyn.
  • Date2017-03-23
  • Formatsound recording-nonmusical
  • Physical Description1 sound file (18 min.) : digital, MP3
  • GenreinterviewsMP3
  • NoteAudio interview conducted on March 23, 2017, by Judith Pierce at Fort Hamilton Library. Collected through Our Streets, Our Stories, an oral history project of Brooklyn Public Library. This project is a partnership with Services for Older Adults and the Brooklyn Collection.
  • CreatorCapobianco, Filomena
  • SubjectUnited States--Emigration and immigration ; Immigrant families ; Senior centers ; Older people--Employment ; Poverty ; Special Education ; Rent ; Italian Americans ; Chinese Americans ; Farms ; Livestock ; Epilepsy ; Exercise ; Switzerland ; Naples (Italy)
  • PlaceBensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)Canarsie (New York, N.Y.)Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsOur Streets, Our Stories collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
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