Meenu panchal biography of christopher columbus
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Subject: Depression Era Experiences (including the closing of the sawmill at Oakhurst in San Jacinto County, Mrs. Fletcher’s admiration of President Franklin Roosevelt)
Interviewee: Geneva Mae Fletcher
1 Interviewer: Linda Cartwright
Date November 2, 1990
Subject: Ethnic History (Experience of a Mexican immigrant in Port Arthur, Texas and in Mexico from the 1930s – 1950s)
Interviewee: Mercedes Barbosa
2 Interviewer: Shannon M. Daigle
Date: November 7, 1990
Subject: Depression Era Experiences (Rationing in World War II and daily life in Port Arthur, Texas in the 1930s)
Interviewee: Dellora Rodriguez
3 Interviewer: Susan Danner
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The request was simple, and selfish, really.
I’d begun to lose faith in the one thing inom thought I’d always love — Philadelphia.
In an eight-month span this year, Philly gassed its own people; the National Guard descended on City Hall; small-business owners saw their shops looted; the homicide rate rose by 31%; vigilantes were allowed to “defend” a Fishtown police station, a Target store, and a statue of Christopher Columbus; protesters were assaulted by police; and reporters were arrested.
All of this in the face of a pandemic that has largely kept the best part of Philadelphia — its people — separated from one another.
So, in a moment of despair, I took to social media to ask people for their favorite interactions with a stranger in Philadelphia, to help remind me why inom fell in love with this city all those years ago.
I began by telling a story of my own.
When I came from a small town in central Pennsylvania for my interview with the Daily News in 2007, the papers were still