Oral History Archive

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Ronald Wimberly
Storyteller, cartoonist and designer whose graphic novel Prince of Cats is partly set in 1980's Coney Island
Eric K. Washington
Historian delves into the life of E.J. Perry, African-American silhouette artist at Luna Park
Marina Rubin
Ukrainian emigre writer and author of Stealing Cherries, a collection of flash fiction
Eva Zucker
Memories of a Yiddish literary household in 1940's and 1950's Coney Island and Sea Gate
Carol Hill Albert
Subsistence U.S.A. and the Coney Island History Project
Paul Krassner
Author and key figure in the counterculture of the 1960's shares his Coney Island memories
Trav S.D.
Actor, author, and modern-day vaudevillian
Meg Feeley
Memories of her grandfather's frosted food business and a renegade ride on the Thunderbolt