Interview with Keith L. Carr, Sr.
IntervieweeInterview with
Keith L. Carr Sr.
(Jamaican, 1930 - 2008)
Date2000 December 7
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration (side 1): 45 Minutes, 53 Seconds
Duration (side 2): 46 Minutes, 35 Seconds
Duration (total runtime): 1 Hour, 32 Minutes, 28 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.26.16a-g
Description(a-d) Audio cassette tape of an interview with Keith L. Carr, Sr., who was interviewed by Fiona Vernal on December 7, 2000. (e-g) Three black and white portrait photographs of Keith L. Carr, Sr.
Topics discussed include Carr's generational links to Jamaica; his relationship with his father; cricket; the opportunity to come to the United States through sports; getting married after his first season of tobacco farm work in the early 1960s; his residential history; distribution of the Jamaican newspaper, "The Daily Gleaner"; the West Indian Social Club; women's roles in the West Indian Social Club; the decline of Social Club programs that required formal wear; the grooming process for leadership in the Social Club in the early years; creation of the West Indian Foundation; generational differences; cricket and the youth; and the proliferation of West Indian organizations.
2013.26.16a-d consists of two sides, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.16e-g: photographs
Topics discussed include Carr's generational links to Jamaica; his relationship with his father; cricket; the opportunity to come to the United States through sports; getting married after his first season of tobacco farm work in the early 1960s; his residential history; distribution of the Jamaican newspaper, "The Daily Gleaner"; the West Indian Social Club; women's roles in the West Indian Social Club; the decline of Social Club programs that required formal wear; the grooming process for leadership in the Social Club in the early years; creation of the West Indian Foundation; generational differences; cricket and the youth; and the proliferation of West Indian organizations.
2013.26.16a-d consists of two sides, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.16e-g: photographs
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19641558
NotesSubject Note: In 1999, the West Indian Social Club of Hartford and the West Indian Foundation asked the Connecticut Historical Society to join them in documenting the lives of the West Indian immigrants who first came to the Hartford area in the 1940s to work on local tobacco farms.What began as a project designed to record the experiences of these early pioneers - mostly men from Jamaica - subsequently grew to include audio and videotaped interviews of men and women, elders and young people, longtime residents and more recent arrivals to the Greater Hartford area, both from Jamaica and the other English-speaking, independent countries in the Caribbean.
The exhibition explored a common thread that seems to link people’s individual stories: the challenge of putting down roots in a new place while maintaining ties with the people, history, and cultural heritage of their homelands in the West Indies.
The exhibition, "Finding a Place, Maintaining Ties: Greater Hartford’s West Indians," was on view at the Connecticut Historical Society from July 2, 2002 – August 31, 2003.
Status
Not on view
