The Ironbound Through My Father’s Eyes

August 26, 2008

“The Ironbound Through My Father’s Eyes”:http://citizenreporter.org/2008/08/bm274/

BicycleMark — who “recently covered”:http://dailynewarker.com/blog/2008/03/opining-on-the-st-james-closure/ the St. James Hospital closure — has podcasted an interview with his father about coming to Newark as a child. Great insight into the history of the Ironbound.

Before the Portuguese came to the Ironbound, before the uprisings of 1967, and before the manufacturing industry moved south, my father made a life for himself in Newark. In another of a series of podcasts that focus on my family, and the history they have lived through, this program focuses on the Ironbound through the eyes of a longtime educator and civic leader — my dad.

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