Interview with Gregory Simones
Date31 March 2025
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 35 Minutes, 38 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with Gregory Simones. He was interviewed by Eva Perkins on 31 March 2025 in New Britain, CT.
Gregory Simones was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Professor Gregory Simones discusses his inspiration, passion and career trajectory as geologist. He speaks about his travels and what it took to follow his career path. He reminisces about his time as a student and compares it to the student experience in modern USA. He also points out the differences between living in Connecticut, versus living in South Carolina.
Transitioning to an educator, Simones talks about the classroom connection or disconnection, his teaching methods, and how the new generation’s focus has shifted to climate change. He shares his thoughts on political shifts and what it means to the geology field. He shares his approval and disapproval for podcasts, social media, and news media.
Gregory Simones was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Professor Gregory Simones discusses his inspiration, passion and career trajectory as geologist. He speaks about his travels and what it took to follow his career path. He reminisces about his time as a student and compares it to the student experience in modern USA. He also points out the differences between living in Connecticut, versus living in South Carolina.
Transitioning to an educator, Simones talks about the classroom connection or disconnection, his teaching methods, and how the new generation’s focus has shifted to climate change. He shares his thoughts on political shifts and what it means to the geology field. He shares his approval and disapproval for podcasts, social media, and news media.
Object number2024.79.31
NotesSubject Note: The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting, gathering items of the recent past as well as from events happening today. This program developed community historians to identify, document, and preserve their experiences as residents of Connecticut, and to share these experiences during a series of community presentations. The project focused on the theme "Redefining Moments of Change." Conneticans share stories of people or events who have changed their lives or how they have sparked change in the lives of others.Cataloging Note: Digitization and access to this collection is supported by a Congressionally Directed grant through the U.S. Department of Education.
Subject Terms
- New Britain
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Men
- White people
- College teachers
- Professor
- Teaching
- Travel
- Social media
- Education
- Geology
- Climate change
- Nuclear weapons
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- Born Digital Audio
- Community History Project U.S. Department of Education grant
- Redefining Moments of Change Collection
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