Interview with Robert Peck
InterviewerInterviewed by
Angelica Gajewski
Date27 September 2025
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 44 Minutes, 52 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with Robert Peck. He was interviewed by Angelica Gajewski on Septeber 27, 2025 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Robert Peck was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in hislife.
Robert Peck, also known as “Hood Farmer Rob,” is a community farmer and lifelong resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In this interview, he shares several formative events from his life spanning from childhood to early adulthood that have sparked significant ethical, spiritual, and perspective transformations. Rob introduces topics of community, food, and inequality through these events and his introductions to them as a result of his geographical location and cultural environments. Peck’s reflections provide insight into general themes of community farming and agriculture's wider social impacts and specific details about Connecticut's urban farming spaces, its infrastructure, and policy.
Robert Peck was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in hislife.
Robert Peck, also known as “Hood Farmer Rob,” is a community farmer and lifelong resident of Bridgeport, Connecticut. In this interview, he shares several formative events from his life spanning from childhood to early adulthood that have sparked significant ethical, spiritual, and perspective transformations. Rob introduces topics of community, food, and inequality through these events and his introductions to them as a result of his geographical location and cultural environments. Peck’s reflections provide insight into general themes of community farming and agriculture's wider social impacts and specific details about Connecticut's urban farming spaces, its infrastructure, and policy.
Object number2024.79.11
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
- Bridgeport
- People of color
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Students
- Educators
- Farmers
- Education
- Volunteers
- Gardens
- AmeriCorps (U.S.)
- Agriculture
- Food
- Family
- Relationships
- Farms
- Faith
- Mushrooms
- Men
- 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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30 June 2025
