PQ&A

Traducción por Cintia Osorio Foto por Olivia Barker-Duncan. Frank Johnson Q: Cuando eras niño, ¿dónde vivías en la ciudad? A: Crecí en el lado norte. Vivía justo debajo de King Street Park en Mansion Street. Q: Descríbe esta zona cuando eras pequeño. A: Era una zona predominantemente italiana. Éramos una de las tres familias negras […]

Photo by Olivia Barker-Duncan. Frank Johnson Q: When you were a kid, where did you live in the city? A: I grew up on the north side.  I lived just below King Street Park on Mansion Street. Q: Describe it for me when you were growing up. A: It was a predominantly Italian area.  We […]

Photo by Kaleceia Douglas. Michael Bennett Q: Were you born and raised in the City of Poughkeepsie? A: I moved to Poughkeepsie from Rhinebeck when I was ten. I was born in San Francisco, and then my family moved to New York, then to Virginia for a couple of years, and then to Rhinebeck for […]

Photo by Olivia Barker-Duncan. Isis Benitez Q: Do you feel like there’s a certain prevailing perception of the city held by people who live other places in the area? A: So many people think of Poughkeepsie as a bad and scary place to live. We’re predominantly a city with people of color. There’s this perceived […]

Traducción por Karla Zarate. Foto por Olivia Barker-Duncan. Isis Benitez Q: ¿Ud siente que existe una cierta percepción de prevalencia de la ciudad por parte de las personas que viven en otros lugares del área? A: Mucha gente piensa en Poughkeepsie como un lugar malo y temible para vivir. Somos predominantemente una ciudad con gente […]

Traducción por Fatimah Martinez. Foto por Phyenix Young-White. Dr. Shanna Didymus Q: Como alguien que ha vivido toda su vida en la ciudad de Poughkeepsie, ¿cuál es un conicimiento importante sobre el lugar? A: Poughkeepsie es un conglomerado de todo tipo de familias y parientes. Entonces, en el sentido de seis grados de separación, es […]

 Photo by Phyenix Young-White. Shana Didymus Q: As someone who has lived her whole life in the City of Poughkeepsie, what’s an important insight about the place? A: Poughkeepsie is a conglomerate of all sorts of families and relations. So in the sense of six degrees of separation, it’s really a one-and-a-half of a person […]

From the Editor: Welcome to Poughkeepsie Q&A, or PQ&A for short! This oral history program provides longtime City of Poughkeepsie residents the opportunity to tell their story, and the city’s, to the general public. See our “About” page to learn more. Click here for our email address. Poughkeepsie Q&A is made possible through the generosity […]