Interview with Barbara P. Lindo
IntervieweeInterview with
Barbara P. Lindo
(Barbadian)
IntervieweeInterview with
Martin Roach
(Barbadian, 1922 - 2008)
Date2001 May 23
Mediumdigitized audio cassette tape
DimensionsDuration: 43 Minutes, 54 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineGift of the CHS Exhibitions Department
Object number2013.26.33a-d
Description(a-c) Audio cassette tape of an interview with Barbara P. Lindo, who was interviewed by Fiona Vernal on May 23, 2001. She was interviewed at The Barbadian Club. Her uncle, Martin Roach, was present for her interview. (d) Black and white portrait photograph of Barbara Lindo.
Topics discussed include Lindo's family and her childhood in Barbados; the centrality of the church in a strict upbringing; her father coming to the U.S. on contract labor; the success of her siblings; going to England after her father's death in the U.S.; her father's labor contract; Lindo migrates to the U.S.; her expectations of America; the cold climate; her accent; her job as a waitress and experiencing racism; her motivations for staying in Hartford include work, marriage, and family; the West Indian Social Club; the American public's unfamiliarity with other islands besides Jamaica; considering returning to Barbados; the possibility of retiring in Barbados; generational changes amd differences; the Barbadian Club; cricket; becoming the first woman president of the Barbadian Club; and Barbadian sayings and proverbs.
2013.26.33a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.33d: photograph
Topics discussed include Lindo's family and her childhood in Barbados; the centrality of the church in a strict upbringing; her father coming to the U.S. on contract labor; the success of her siblings; going to England after her father's death in the U.S.; her father's labor contract; Lindo migrates to the U.S.; her expectations of America; the cold climate; her accent; her job as a waitress and experiencing racism; her motivations for staying in Hartford include work, marriage, and family; the West Indian Social Club; the American public's unfamiliarity with other islands besides Jamaica; considering returning to Barbados; the possibility of retiring in Barbados; generational changes amd differences; the Barbadian Club; cricket; becoming the first woman president of the Barbadian Club; and Barbadian sayings and proverbs.
2013.26.33a-c consists of one side, the tape, and a J-card.
2013.26.33d: photograph
Label TextListen to interview at http://hdl.handle.net/11134/40002:19641574
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
2000 May 10
