Interview with Peter Albano
Date18 July 2025
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 40 Minutes, 40 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with Peter Albano. He was interviewed by Francis Goldberg-Doyle on 18 July 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Peter Albano was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Peter Albano was interviewed at Real Art Ways on July 18th, 2025. Peter explains his moment of change pertaining to the Hog River Revival project, a project where he and a friend worked to build a map of an underground river in Hartford called the Hog or Park River.
When thinking of change, Peter explains change to be a shift in approach or perspective. When he took up the Hog River Revival project, he had not had a formal career in the arts, and he did not expect the project to culminate into such a pathway for opportunity in the local arts community. He was able to step outside of his comfort zone with the project, and grew to appreciate the value of hard work. Peter also shares his favorite memory, in which he took a different route in the underground river while bringing some men on a tour, and it resulted in them unintentionally exiting a manhole into the armory, after being flooded with water.
The overall experience of the project was not all adrenaline rushes and fun, Peter explains. He describes the hard work and how it required him to be in uncomfortable physical positions; the underground rivers are dark, foul smelling, and require lots of labor. Peter was an athlete in high school, so he utilized a lot of these skills.
Based on Peter's work on the Hog River project new opportunites arose for him, including being invited by Anne Cubberly to work on making a backdrop for a puppet show.
Peter Albano was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Peter Albano was interviewed at Real Art Ways on July 18th, 2025. Peter explains his moment of change pertaining to the Hog River Revival project, a project where he and a friend worked to build a map of an underground river in Hartford called the Hog or Park River.
When thinking of change, Peter explains change to be a shift in approach or perspective. When he took up the Hog River Revival project, he had not had a formal career in the arts, and he did not expect the project to culminate into such a pathway for opportunity in the local arts community. He was able to step outside of his comfort zone with the project, and grew to appreciate the value of hard work. Peter also shares his favorite memory, in which he took a different route in the underground river while bringing some men on a tour, and it resulted in them unintentionally exiting a manhole into the armory, after being flooded with water.
The overall experience of the project was not all adrenaline rushes and fun, Peter explains. He describes the hard work and how it required him to be in uncomfortable physical positions; the underground rivers are dark, foul smelling, and require lots of labor. Peter was an athlete in high school, so he utilized a lot of these skills.
Based on Peter's work on the Hog River project new opportunites arose for him, including being invited by Anne Cubberly to work on making a backdrop for a puppet show.
Object number2024.79.50
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
- Hartford
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Men
- Hartford (Conn.)
- Art
- Art students
- Artists
- Cartography
- Maps
- Non-profits
- Non-profit organizations
- Park River (Hartford, Conn.)
- Hog River (Hartford, Conn.)
- 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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