Local Immigrants Sought for Oral History Project

Sharon Kennedy interviews Domenic Valente. Courtesy photo.

“Medford Stories,” a project supported by a grant from Medford Health Matters, is looking for adults who are willing to be interviewed by children three times in the month of April.

Are you Irish, Italian, Haitian, Jewish, Vietnamese or Indian? We are hoping you will join us at the Medford Public Library in April. Our project has children from the Medford Boys and Girls Club and from Medford High School. They would like to hear your family’s stories about emigration (long ago or recently) or about life in Medford. We are interested in serious stories about how the first immigrant in your family found his or her first job. We are also interested in funny or heart-warming stories such as how your someone in your family learned English by going to the movies.

Are you of Chinese, German, Brazilian, African-American, Korean, or English descent? If you would like our children and teens to interview you, please contact Sharon Kennedy at 781-393-7566 or sharon@sharonkennedy.com.

Details: April 4, April 13, April 27, 3:45- 5:20 pm, at the Medford Public Library.

– Submitted by Sharon Kennedy