Interview with Travis Stewart
InterviewerInterviewed by
Angelica Gajewski
Date2025 December 5
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 55 Minutes, 43 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with Travis Stewart. He was interviewed by Angelica Gajewski on December 5, 2025 in Hartford, Connecticut.
Travis Stewart was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Travis Stewart is an urban farmer based in Hartford, Connecticut. In this interview, Travis traces his personal history, focusing on his discovery of urban farming in the midst of becoming a deeply involved community member.
Attempting to create a “closed loop” system, Travis recalls learning how to plant in raised beds, hatching chickens, and aquaponics. Travis recounts his experience of fatherhood as an attempt to exemplify what it means to be a member of one's community, becoming involved in after-school programs and teaching martial arts. Understanding change as a universal constant and an opportunity, Travis details his experience with multiple myeloma as informing his passion for involvement, connection, and impact over interpersonal conflict.
Travis Stewart was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in his life.
Travis Stewart is an urban farmer based in Hartford, Connecticut. In this interview, Travis traces his personal history, focusing on his discovery of urban farming in the midst of becoming a deeply involved community member.
Attempting to create a “closed loop” system, Travis recalls learning how to plant in raised beds, hatching chickens, and aquaponics. Travis recounts his experience of fatherhood as an attempt to exemplify what it means to be a member of one's community, becoming involved in after-school programs and teaching martial arts. Understanding change as a universal constant and an opportunity, Travis details his experience with multiple myeloma as informing his passion for involvement, connection, and impact over interpersonal conflict.
Object number2024.79.98
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
- People of color
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Men
- Death
- Relationships
- Community
- Diseases
- Jamaican Americans
- Raised bed gardening
- Gardens
- Chickens
- Black people
- Urban gardening
- Gardening
- 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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