Ken and Shirley Brown: oral history with Molly Graham

Item Information

Title:
Ken and Shirley Brown: oral history with Molly Graham
Description:
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. Ken and Shirley Brown have been residents of Loomis since 2006, moving from home in Amherst, but natives of Pennsylvania and Texas, respectively, married 52 years. Ken is former Professor of Communication; Shirley was a speech language pathologist. Discussion of decision to move into Loomis, life in the community, religion in retirement communities; health; work lives; background.
Interviewee:
Brown, Ken
Interviewee:
Brown, Shirley
Interviewer:
Graham, Molly
Date:
July 8, 2010
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Oral histories (document genres)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Loomis Communities Records
Series:
Series 5. Oral Histories
Subjects:
Older people--Massachusetts--Interviews
Retirees--Massachusetts--Interviews
Retirement--Massachusetts
Retirement communities--Massachusetts
Loomis Village Retirement Community
Places:
Massachusetts
Extent:
1 audio recording ; 01:05:37
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums685-o001-i003
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
South Hadley (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums685-o001-i003