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  • Subject is exactly "Bread and Puppet Theater"

Oral history interview with Peggy Day and Dennis Gibson

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Dennis Gibson discusses growing up in New Jersey, his brief attendance at Lehigh University, dropping out to work as a crane mechanic on the Hoboken docks, and drawing a high number in the draft lottery and therefore not being required to serve in…

Oral history interview with Marc Estrin

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Marc Estrin discusses his transition from studying microbiology to theater, and describes working as theater director of the San Francisco Actors Workshop in 1965 and in political theater in Washington D.C until 1969. He speaks of living in an urban…

Oral history interview with Elka Schumann

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Elka Schumann speaks of her early childhood in the Soviet Union, her family’s departure to New York City in advance of the German occupation of the Soviet Union in 1941, and, after the war, living in Berlin, Germany where her father, John Scott,…

Oral history interviews with Chris Braithwaite

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In his first interview on December 7, 2015, Chris Braithwaite speaks of his desire to become a journalist, transferring to Pomona College, and working as a journalist during summers. He describes an anti-war event in Oakland, California involving Ken…

Oral history interview with Larry Gordon

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Larry Gordon describes growing up in a very political household, becoming involved with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at Swarthmore College and at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, particularly the community organizing aspect,…

Oral history interview with Ginny Callan

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Ginny Callan recounts growing up in Queens, New York in the context of the late 60s, and discusses her life at Goddard College from 1970 to 1974, including classes, dorms, campus life, and the Bread and Puppet Theater. She also describes her work…

Oral history interview with Michele Clark

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Michele Clark describes growing up in New York City and attending City College of New York in 1967, during which time she joined the Bread and Puppet Theater and participated in anti-war demonstrations and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)…

Oral history interview with Avram Patt

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Avram Patt describes growing up in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, New York, his time at Columbia University, including the student strikes in 1968, his transfer to Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and his two years working…