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Piece Description
Celedonia "Cal" Jones grew up during the Depression, as one of five children. Like many black families at that time, the Jones family had to move around Harlem to find affordable housing. And as he recently told his friend, Robert Harris, being the new kid wasn't easy. StoryCorps Griot is an initiative to record interviews between everyday African Americans across the United States. In West African tradition, the griot is a storyteller who preserves cultural identity and passes it on from generation to generation. The StoryCorps Griot booth is traveling from coast-to-coast collecting these interviews, which will be archived in the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Broadcast History
NPR News & Notes 12/11/07
Morning Edition 12/13/08
Transcript
Cal: I remember moving to 143rd street between Lennox and 7th. That was probably one of the toughest blocks in the city. The first day I came out to play and this fella comes up and he says, "Hey."
So I says, "Well I'm Cal," and I put my hand out to shake, and he, BANG, he hits me in the eye. I said all I wanted to do is be friends, he says, "And that's how we start friends in this block." So that was the kind of reception I got moving in to this block.
Cal: I remember this day, it was like 95 degrees, we were out on the sidewalk, and we were about nine and eleven years old. So I said let's play boxball and that was like hitting the ball you know ran the bases and all, and it was hot, so we said it's too hot to play. And we were talking and my brother said, "I guess it would really be something if someone tried to run around this court in this weather and so this fella Gordon said, "Ahh...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:Time now for StoryCorps.
This project is criss-crossing the country recording everyday people
telling their OWN stories.
Celedonia [sell-DOAN-yuh] "Cal" Jones came by with a friend ...
... to talk about growing up.
His family lived in Harlem during the 1930s.
When he was nine years old, they moved to a new block... -- and Cal quickly learned how the neighborhood worked.
OUTRO:Celedonia [sell-DOAN-yuh] "Cal" Jones with his friend, Robert Harris, in New York City.
This interview will be archived at the Library of Congress ... AND at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Subscribe to the podcast ... at NPR-DOT-ORG.
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