Interview with Josh Sommers
Date7 October 2025
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 48 Minutes, 9 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with Josh Sommers. He was interviewed by Satwik Padhi on October 7, 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Josh Sommers was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
During the interview, Josh Sommers describes his study abroad experience in Brazil, which was a significant moment of change in his life. Josh opted to study abroad in Brazil because he wanted to study and perform music while living there. While in Brazil, he had to adjust to its culture and food.
Josh shares about his experience visiting the city of Salvador, where he struggled with the language barrier. Josh recalls that the Brazilian people were very kind to him. Josh describes his experience studying at the federal university of the state of Bahia (UFBA). While studing abroad, he participated in some of the voluntary activities arranged through the school, including a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where he noticed the cultural differences between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.
After returning to the U.S.A, Josh felt a sense of personal growth from his many new experiences in Brazil.
Josh Sommers was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
During the interview, Josh Sommers describes his study abroad experience in Brazil, which was a significant moment of change in his life. Josh opted to study abroad in Brazil because he wanted to study and perform music while living there. While in Brazil, he had to adjust to its culture and food.
Josh shares about his experience visiting the city of Salvador, where he struggled with the language barrier. Josh recalls that the Brazilian people were very kind to him. Josh describes his experience studying at the federal university of the state of Bahia (UFBA). While studing abroad, he participated in some of the voluntary activities arranged through the school, including a trip to Rio de Janeiro, where he noticed the cultural differences between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro.
After returning to the U.S.A, Josh felt a sense of personal growth from his many new experiences in Brazil.
Object number2024.79.65
CopyrightIn Copyright, Copyright held by Josh Sommers
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
- College students
- Study abroad
- Language barrier
- Languages
- Family
- Politics, practical
- Brazil
- Friendship
- Music
- Travel
- Food
- Stereotypes
- 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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29 October 2025