Oral History Archive

Filtering by swimming back to all

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville

Memories of growing up a block from the ocean and being head of Lincoln High School's Art Squad

Olga Lozar

A Sea Gate resident who is a Coney Island Polar Bear talks about the pleasures of winter swimming

Hawley Hussey

Sea Gate artist, writer, educator and year-round swimmer

Edith Storch

Memories of growing up on West 36th Street in Coney Island's West End

Naum Barash

A Coney Island Polar Bear recounts his 50 years of winter swimming in Ukraine and Brooklyn

Patricia Sener

Sea Gate resident and co-founder of CIBBOWS - Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers