Concord Center from Monument Square, 1959-1960. Keith Martin, photographer.
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THE RENEE GARRELICK ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM COLLECTION
1975-<2006>
Concord Center from Monument Square, 1959-1960. Keith Martin, photographer.
Not to be reproduced without permission from the Concord Free Public Library.
The Renee Garrelick Oral History Program (also known as the Concord Oral History Program) consists of interviews with Concord citizens from all walks of life. Now in its 30th year, the program has resulted in the collected histories of more than three hundred Concord citizens. The interviews, which were conducted by Renee Garrelick, are recorded on audiocassette and were transcribed by Nancy McKinney. Photographer Alice Moulton's portraits also form an important part of the collection. There are over three hundred oral history transcripts available in Special Collections, most with accompanying audiocassettes and a photograph of the subject. Most of these oral histories are also included in the reference collection (please see the reference staff for more information.) Additional oral history collections, apart from the official Concord Oral History Program, are also available in Special Collections.
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| NAME | SUBJECT | DATE | AUDIO- | PHOTOGRAPH | ||||||||
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| Abbott, Mary Ogden | Concord Art Association | 1978 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Alexander, Jim | 1993 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Andersen, Krist | (see Peter Benes) | |||||||||||
| Anderson, Esther Howe | 1980 | |||||||||||
| Anthony, Barbara | (see League of Women Voters) | |||||||||||
| Arena, Nat | 2003 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Arkin, Nat | (see Orkin, Leonard) | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Armenti, Amedio "Al" | Activism | 2001 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Atkins, Chet | State Representative | 1993 | * | |||||||||
| Atkins, Chet | SUASCO | 1999 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Babcock, Elizabeth | 1977 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Bailey, Catherine | (see Walden Breezes) | |||||||||||
| Bailey, Edith | 1977 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Baker, Terry | (see Millbrook, Preservation of the) | * | ||||||||||
| Barney, Rev. David | Rector, Trinity Episcopal Church | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Barr, Debbie | (see League of Women Voters) | |||||||||||
| Beecher, Nancy B. | (see League of Women Voters) | |||||||||||
| Beecher, Norman | Military experiences | 2005 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Bell, Jean and Diana Clymer | Concord Prison Outreach | 1999 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Bemis, John | (see also Palumbo, Frank) | 2003 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Bemis, John | Hutchins Farm | 2006 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Benes, Peter | Seeing Statue of Liberty for the | |||||||||||
| first time | 1986 | |||||||||||
| Benson, C. Sanfred | 1983 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Blatt, Julia | (see SUASCO, Chet Atkins) | |||||||||||
| Boardman, Dr. Donnell | Perspectives on primary care | Cassette | ||||||||||
| medicine | 1988 | |||||||||||
| Bordman, John | 2003 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Bregoli, Dalgo and Velina | Eyewitness to Pearl Harbor | 1981 | cassette | |||||||||
| Broderick, Ellen "Nelly" Towler | 1992 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Brooke, Peter | 1994 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Brown, Mary Powers | 2000 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Browne, Pierce | 2003 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Bulger, William | 1979 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Burke, Gerard J. | 2005 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Butman, Robert & Olive | Conantum | 1992 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Buttrick, Stedman | 1997 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Byron, Charles | 1977 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Cabot, Harold and Adeline | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Cahoon, Harold | Concord Country Club | 1977 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Cardaropoli, Fred | 1988 | |||||||||||
| Carr, Arthur and Bob | Independent community | |||||||||||
| pharmacists | 2004 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Carter, Robert | Junketing around the Depots | 1992 | * | |||||||||
| Carter, Winifred and Robert | 1980 | * | ||||||||||
| Carey, Pat | (see Magurn, Francis) | |||||||||||
| Casey, David | (see CHS Class of 1954) | |||||||||||
| Chase, Harold | 1977 | * | ||||||||||
| Clark, Gladys | 1979 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Clark, Gladys | On Ellen Emerson | undated | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Clark, Gladys | Education in Concord | 1981 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Clark, Gladys | Life on "The Plain" | 1981 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Clarkson, John | 1986 | |||||||||||
| Closser, Jay | Town Appraiser | 2000 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Clough, Charles "Chuck" | (see Our Lady Help of Christians Church) | |||||||||||
| Clymer, Diana | (see Bell, Jean) | * | ||||||||||
| Cogswell, Rosemary | (see Hayward, Ruth) | |||||||||||
| Cole, Geoffrey | President, Emerson Hospital | 1995 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Cole, Geoffrey | President, Emerson Hospital | 2001 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Coles, Dr. Robert | "The Morality of Children" | 1992 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Comeau, Charles | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Conantum Neighborhood | 1986 | * | ||||||||||
| Concord Clergy-Laity Group | (see Kerem Shalom) | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Concord Farming | Interviews | 1987 | ||||||||||
| Concord Fire Department | Visit to New York City Ground Zero | 2002 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Concord High School Class of 1954 | 2004 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Concord Independent Battery 1804-2004 | (200th anniversary) | 2004 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Concord Prison Outreach | (see Kathleen Dennehy, Mass. | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Commissioner of Corrections) | 2004 | |||||||||||
| Concord Rotary Club | (see Rotary Club) | 2005 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Condon, Jim | Memories of Concord Junction | 2002 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Crocker, Mary | 2006 | CD | * | |||||||||
| Crosby, Jack | (see Millbrook, Preservation of the) | * | ||||||||||
| Cull, Gladys | (see Gertrude Hagerty) | |||||||||||
| Damon, Mrs. Winslow | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Damon, Richard | 1990 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Davis, Kay | "The Little Drummer Boy" | 1978 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Davis, Dr. William | 1979 | |||||||||||
| Day, Barbara and Frederic "Lanny" Day | 1997 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Dee, Charles | 1982 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Dee, Charles | America's Secret War in Europe | 1991 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Dee, Joseph | 1978 | * | ||||||||||
| Dennehy, Kathleen | (see Concord Prison Outreach) | Cassette | ||||||||||
| DiCicco, Dorothy | (see also CHS Class of 1954) | 1998 | * | |||||||||
| DiCicco, Elaine | Principal, Concord-Carlisle High School | 1998 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| DiCicco, Elaine | Principal, Concord-Carlisle High School | 2001 | ||||||||||
| DiGiovanni, Guy P. | Period Realty Trust |
2003 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Dillon, Tom | Concord Carlisle Educators Oral | Cassette | ||||||||||
| History | 1990 | |||||||||||
| Domar, Carola | 1998 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Dopazo, Elizabeth | 20th Annual Holocaust Memorial | |||||||||||
| Observance | 2000 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Downey, Robert | (see CHS Class of 1954) | |||||||||||
| Drinker, Ruth Brooks and Marie Gooding Eaton |
Memoirs of Concord Academy | 2003 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Eaton, Marie Gooding | (see Drinker, Ruth Brooks Drinker) | |||||||||||
| Edgerton, Bill | Concord Public Works, 1997-2006 | 2006 | CD | * | ||||||||
| Edgarton, Charles (Chick) | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Edmonds, Walter | 1980 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Eliot, Abigail | Eliot-Pearson / Tufts | 1979 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Ellis, Maude | 1980 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Everett, Robert | MITRE Corp. | 1995 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Fareta, Frances | (see Peter Benes) | |||||||||||
| Feehan, Faustin | 1993 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Fenn, Roger & Eleanor | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Fenn, Roger | Founding of the Fenn School | 1977 | ||||||||||
| Fenn, Roger | Strawberries & Streetcars | 1979 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Ferran, Archibald "Archie" | 1977 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Filipov, Loretta | Al Filipov, September 11, 2001 | 2002 | * | |||||||||
| Filipov, Loretta and Rev. John Lombard | Five years after September 11th | 2006 | CD | |||||||||
| Finigan, John | 1989 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Finigan, John | (see Minute Man National Historical Park ) | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Fleming, Father Austin | The Faith Community | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Fleming, Father Austin | Holy Family Parish | 2005 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Flood, Carrie | (see Richard Kruszkowski) | |||||||||||
| Forbes Family | 1993 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Forbes, Maynard | 25th anniversary end of Vietnam War | * | ||||||||||
| 2000 | Cassette | |||||||||||
| Forgiveness and Reconciliation | (see Kerem Shalom, 2003) | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Forrester, Dr. Jay | Project Whirlwind | 1994 | * | |||||||||
| Garrelick, Daniel | CCHS community service | 1996 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Gifford, Chandler | (see Lawrence, Gilbert) | |||||||||||
| Gillespie, Ian | Gillespie & Co., Inc. | 1999 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Goetschius, Hazel Maxine Fultz | (see CHS Class of 1954) | |||||||||||
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | "The Art of Biography" | 1989 | * | |||||||||
| Goodwin, Doris Kearns | Impact of WWII on the | * | ||||||||||
| Homefront | 1994 | |||||||||||
| Goodwin, Richard | Memories of RFK | 1988 | * | |||||||||
| Goodwin, Richard | Presidential advisor and speech- | * | ||||||||||
| writer for JFK & LBJ | 1999 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Greeley, Rev. Dana McLean | First Parish Church | 1982 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Giurleo, Dan & Rosemary | Colonial Gardens | 2006 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Hagerty, Gertrude and Gladys Cull | 1978 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Haldeman, Louise S. | (see League of Women Voters) | |||||||||||
| Ham, Phebe | Education in China - Part I | 1989 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Ham, Phebe | Education in China - Part II | 1990 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Ham, Phebe | Saving Harrington House - 1975 | 2005 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Harvey, Christina and Phyllis Harvey | (see Walden Breezes) | |||||||||||
| Haskett, Flora M. | (see Walden Breezes) | |||||||||||
| Haugh, Bill | (see Concord Fire Dept.) | |||||||||||
| Hay, Carl Joseph | 1979 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Hayes, Dick | (see Horgan, Kathleen Dee) | |||||||||||
| Hayes, Tom | 2005 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Hayward, Marian | (see Hayward, Ruth) | |||||||||||
| Hayward, Ruth | Development of the Riverdale/Southfield Road Neighborhood |
2002 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Hemenway, Ralph | 1983 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Higgins, Barry and Dorothy "Dot" | 1994 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Hills, Lou | Saving Harrington House - 1975 | 2005 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Hirshtick, Jon | (see John McEleney) | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Holcomb, Robert | Church of Christ, Scientist | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Holden, Carolyn Peterson | (see Horgan, Kathleen Dee) | |||||||||||
| Holden, Hollis | Acadian Utilities, Inc. | 2004 | * | |||||||||
| Holmes, Dr. Jack | Primary Care Practice | 1988 | ||||||||||
| Holocaust Memorial Observance | (see also Kerem Shalom) | 1993 | ||||||||||
| (see also Domar, Carola) | 1998 | |||||||||||
| (see also Dopazo, Elizabeth) | 2000 | |||||||||||
| (see also Krasa, E. 25th Annual) | 2005 | |||||||||||
| Horgan, Kathleen Dee; Carolyn Peterson | * | |||||||||||
| Holden; Dick Hayes | CHS Class of 1945 | 1995 | * | |||||||||
| Horgan, Kathleen Dee | (see Our Lady Help of Christians | * | ||||||||||
| Church) | ||||||||||||
| Hudner, Jr., Thomas | Congressional Medal of Honor | 1990 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Hudson, Rev John | West Concord Union Church | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Hurley, Kevin | (see Millbrook) | |||||||||||
| Inferrera, Dominic | (see CHS Class of 1954) | |||||||||||
| Interfaith | (see Kerem Shalom) | |||||||||||
| Ishihara, Jiro and Tama | 1988 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Ishihara, Jiro and Tama | Japanese-American experience | 1991 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Jackson, Bill | (see Visitors Center) | |||||||||||
| Jackson, Marcus | (see Concord Fire Dept.) | |||||||||||
| Jarnagin, Bill | Journalist and combat soldier | 2001 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Johnson, Mary | (see Visitors Center) | |||||||||||
| Johnston, Dr. Reginald Fulton | 1978 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Joslin, Elmer | 1977 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Joslin, Elmer | Strawberries & Streetcars | 1979 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Kalinowski, Ken | Town Engineer | 2004 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Kennedy, Elsie | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Kenney, Lawrence | 1977 | |||||||||||
| Kenney, Philip | 1979 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Kent, Helen Root | 1982 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Kerem Shalom Synagogue Collection | 1992 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| 1993 | Cassette | |||||||||||
| (Forgiveness and Reconciliation) | 2003 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Keyes, Jay and Judy | 2003 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Kidder, George | 1991 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Koch, Carl | Conantum | 1992 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Krasa, Edgar | 25th Annual Holocaust | |||||||||||
| Memorial Observance | 2005 | |||||||||||
| Kruszkowski, Richard and Carrie Flood | 1998 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Kussin, Louisa Alcott Pratt (Mrs. William) | 1980 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Kussin, William F. | 1997 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Lambert, John and Althea | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Landini, Paul | 2000 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Larsen, Ruth | (see Hayward, Ruth) | |||||||||||
| Latham, Dr. Virginia | 2001 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Lawrence, Connie Martinson | 1992 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Lawrence, Gilbert, Raymond Lawrence, | * | |||||||||||
| Sarah Lawrence Minty | 1995 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Leach, Brad | Concord Board of Health | 1992 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| League of Women Voters | 2000 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Lee, Barbara and Winthrop | 1993 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Leighton, Marguerite | 1981 | |||||||||||
| Levy, Norman | Concord-Carlisle Educators | |||||||||||
| Oral History | 1990 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Lightman, Alan and Jean Lightman | Novelist, physicist, educator | 2003 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Lilien, Elliott | CCHS | 2003 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Little, David | 1977 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Little, Harry and David Little | Concord's public and domestic | |||||||||||
| architecture | 1989 | Cassette | ||||||||||
| Little, David | Concord's WWII memorial | 1994 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Lombard, Rev. John | Trinitarian Congregational Church | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Lombard, Rev. John | Spiritual impact of 9/11 | 2002 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Lombard, Rev. John | Sermon: "The One Essential Thing" | 2006 | Cassette | |||||||||
| Lombard, Rev. John and Loretta Filipov | Five years after September 11th | 2006 | CD | |||||||||
| (See Loretta Filipov) | ||||||||||||
| Lorenz, Jack | Maple Real Estate Trust | 2006 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Loughlin, Jr., Richard | 1987 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Lowell, Elizabeth Shurcliffe | 2001 | Cassette | * | |||||||||
| Luckens, Rabbi Michael | (see also Kerem Shalom) | 2001 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Macone, Anna | 1979 | * | ||||||||||
| Macone, Lt. Paul | 2002 | * | ||||||||||
| Macone, Ralph (Peanut) | 1977 | * | ||||||||||
| MacWilliams, C. Waldo "Brick" | Building Inspector | 1983 | * | |||||||||
| Magee, John | Arthur D. Little, Inc. | 1996 | ||||||||||
| Magurn, Francis & Pat Carey | 1997 | * | ||||||||||
| Manion, Anna | 1977 | |||||||||||
| Manion, Anna | Strawberries and Streetcars | 1979 | Cassette | * | ||||||||
| Manion, Anna | Concord Depot | 1992 | * | |||||||||
| Mara, Mark | 1977 | * | ||||||||||
| Marshall, Richard and Diane | 2005 | |||||||||||
| Matthews, George | Nuclear Metals, Inc. | 1996 | * | |||||||||
| Mattison, William "Jack" | 1997 | * | ||||||||||
| Mazzeo, Nancy | (see Peter Benes) | |||||||||||
| McCouch, Gordon | Town government | 1995 | * | |||||||||
| McCune, William | Polaroid Corp. | 1996 | * | |||||||||
| McEleney, John | (see also Jon Hirschtick) | 2005 | * | |||||||||
| McGuigan, Barbara Pereira | (see CHS Class of 1954) | |||||||||||
| McHugh, Terence and John | 1977 | * | ||||||||||
| McPhillips, David | Father of Lt. Brian McPhillips | 2003 | ||||||||||
| McWalter, David | McWalter Insurance Agency | 1997 | * | |||||||||
| McWalter, Robert | 2003 | * | ||||||||||
| Millbrook, Preservation of the | Jack Crosby and Terry Baker | 2000 | ||||||||||
| Miller, Marian | 1977 | * | ||||||||||
| Minty, Sarah Lawrence | (see Lawrence, Gilbert) | |||||||||||
| Minute Man National Historical Park | (40th Anniversary) | 1999 | ||||||||||
| Minuteman Statue (Replication of) | ||||||||||||