Oral History Archive

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Teresa Genaro

Reflections on the history of horse racing in Coney Island in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Dionne Brown (D.L. Jordan)

Lifelong Coney Island resident and author of Living Life Like It's Golden

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