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Title
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Lillian Rubin
Subject
History
Urban Agriculture
Description
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
Rubin arrived in DC in 1944 where she began work as a meteorologist. She met her husband, and electrical engineer with the Department of Standards soon thereafter. They married and built their house on Yuma Street, NW where they began a long tradition of backyard gardening.
Rubin describes her upper northwest neighborhood as being "in the country" in the 1940s. She recalls the ruins of a farmhouse and well near the land on which she and her husband built their house. Yuma Street had just been cut through to Connecticut Avenue.
Rubin arrived in DC in 1944 where she began work as a meteorologist. She met her husband, and electrical engineer with the Department of Standards soon thereafter. They married and built their house on Yuma Street, NW where they began a long tradition of backyard gardening.
Rubin describes her upper northwest neighborhood as being "in the country" in the 1940s. She recalls the ruins of a farmhouse and well near the land on which she and her husband built their house. Yuma Street had just been cut through to Connecticut Avenue.
Creator
Rubin, Lillian
Clements, Anna
Source
Grant - 13-DCCHP-14
Publisher
Neighborhood Farm Initiative
Date
2013
18 August 2013
Contributor
Clements, Anna
Quick, David
Rights
Copyright held jointly by the Humanities Council, the narrator, and the interviewer.
The Humanities Council of Washington, DC has the right to display and distribute materials funded by HCWDC grants.
Format
.mp3
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
06y.DCCHP.2013
Coverage
Washington, DC
Ward 3
Wakefield
North Cleveland Park
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Original Format
.mp3
Duration
01:02:19
Bit Rate/Frequency
128kb/s
Interviewer
Clements, Anna
Quick, David
Interviewee
Rubin, Lillian
Location
Washington, DC
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