Talking about changing tides, and times, in East Boston
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Rising tides and rents: changing times in East Boston, oral history project
This summer, we’re launching Tide Talks, our latest oral history project and our first in East Boston, where Hola Cultura is expanding our local coverage. Diego, Jeronimo and Mary, our stellar oral history team, are getting started this week. If you live or have lived in East Boston, you are invited!
We’re speaking with local residents about their experiences living in East Boston and their thoughts on how it’s been changing. This summer’s interviews will contribute to the trove of community history that’s been collected over many years in East Boston. It will bring together views recorded over generations and across language and other divides.
Expanding the public record of our times
Oral histories are important. They leave a lasting record for future generations. Like our recently completed contribution to the Boston Research Center’s “Sidewalk Stories,” these interviews will join “Our Home: An Eastie Community Archiving Project,” expanding that digital repository of East Boston historical materials. Hola Cultura will also share this project through online storytelling and at public events this fall, where the conversation will continue.
Interviews will explore neighborhood history, experiences growing up, immigrant communities, gentrification, climate justice, Boston Harbor history, waterfront living and much more!
Give us an interview!
To learn more or get involved, visit the Tide Talks page.
To schedule an interview, please call 202-696-9642 or email Diego at diego@holacultura.com.
This project is generously supported by Mass Humanities.
– Copy edited by Kami Waller
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