Elizabeth MacArthur: oral history with Molly Graham
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From a series of oral histories with residents and employees of the Loomis Village Retirement Community, South Hadley, Mass., regarding their lives and experience in a retirement community. Elizabeth MacArthur (97), a nine-year resident of Loomis, husband died two years ago, discusses family history and background, husband and children.
Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries. Elizabeth MacArthur (92) discusses giving up the home and neighborhood they loved for retirement, recognizing that her husband's health was declining and she was afraid of being alone; background, history of Loomis; role in starting an interracial nursery school in Hartford
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