Memories of Migration Episode Ten: Terminals

Queens Public Library Podcasts

In the tenth and last episode of this Queens Memory Podcast season on migration, we turn to the topic of terminals—where we’ve arrived and where our stories go from there. We’ve listened to oral histories from our archives, reflecting on the relationships we have to our own and each other’s histories. In our oral history workshops, we suggest volunteers end their interviews with reflective questions like, “Is there anything else you’d like to share?” We ask these questions to build mutual trust and responsibility when we record our oral histories and to encourage those being interviewed to tell their stories how they want, from beginning to end. This episode is a collection of those stories. We’ll hear from: Frank Fortino, Alfredo Cornejo, Solange Baptiste, Thara Madathody, Edgar Tinoco, Tony O’Reilly, and Luna Ranjit. While we listen, we ask: where have we been? Where are we now? Where are we headed? Learn more about Queens Memory at http://queensmemory.org.