UMP to start Oral History Project in Park Slope

UMP students at the Secondary School for Research in Park Slope are recording the memories of long-term neighborhood residents. Partnering with the Park Slope Civic Council, the Old Stone House and the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS), the students’ will meet and interview long-term community residents about their lives in the neighborhood and the changes they have witnessed. The students’ interviews will then be transcribed and uploaded to the BHS website, available for Ipod downloads as part of a neighborhood walking tour. The Park Slope project will lead to students documenting and recording the stories of residents in their own communities, to be used in exhibitions at their school, at the Old Stone House, and in public spaces around the city.