Reminiscences of Bernice Rubin : oral history, 2001-2003.

Biographical Note

Bookkeeper.

Scope and Contents

Background: born Topeka, Kansas, childhood in Upstate New York, twenty-five year resident of Lispenard Street in downtown Manhattan; education: fashion studies Pratt Institute; career: administrative assistant, freelance bookkeeper; 9/11: sound of tower collapse, television coverage, interaction with neighbors; post 9/11: coping with fears, opposition to military retaliation, gentrification and clean-up of neighborhood, discussion of memorial.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Pozzi-Thanner, Elisabeth, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Rubin, Bernice--Interviews.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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