Cultivating Common Ground community garden project
Scope and Contents
For the Cultivating Common Ground project, middle and high school youth from the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, NC, interviewed the senior citizens who work in their neighborhood's community garden. The teens documented the seniors' life stories and their interest in gardening on video and audio and also through photography.
Dates
- Creation: 2001 - 2002
Conditions Governing Access
Original audiovisual materials closed to patron use.
Historical Note
The project was funded by a grant from the Community Cultural Connections Program of the Arts & Science Council, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc. and the Grassroots Grant Program of the North Carolina Arts Council. Additional support came from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Enterprise Foundation, the Junior League of Charlotte, Winghaven Gardens and private donors. June Blotnick, currently Executive Director of Clean Air Carolina, was the director of the project.
Extent
11 Interviews
Language of Materials
English
English
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Title
- Cultivating Common Ground Community Garden Oral History Project
- Date
- December 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Oral Histories, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, UNC Charlotte Repository
Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd
Charlotte NC 28223 United States
spec-coll@uncc.edu
