Lunch with Iris Brown, Eileen Gallagher, and Teresa Elliot (NSNP)
Subject
Brown, Iris
Gallagher, Eileen
Elliot, Teresa
Community gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
Norris Square Neighborhood Project
Cooking, Puerto Rican -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Makuc, Joseph
Las Parcelas Community Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Philadelphia Green (Program)
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Greene Countrie Towne
Norris Square (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Description
Sound recording of informal lunch hosted by community organizer and gardener Iris Brown (left), including former Pennsylvania Horticultural Society employee Eileen Gallagher (right), PHS memory project coordinator Joe Makuc, and Norris Square Neighborhood Project Executive Director Teresa Elliot. This lunch was recorded the day of the Community Gardens Memory Project interview with Eileen Gallagher, two days before El Bembé at Villa Africana Colobó on Saturday, November 6, 2021. The lunch discusses Brown's Puerto Rican family cooking, including arroz con gandules and its sofrito base, fried plantains, and flan. The lunch also discusses these gardeners' experience, including their joint work to build Las Parcelas and a trip to study agriculture in Cuba. The lunch also includes Brown and Elliot's ongoing efforts to preserve the history of Norris Square Neighborhood Project (NSNP) and garden sites such as Las Parcelas.
Date
2022
Coverage
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Collection
Citation
“Lunch with Iris Brown, Eileen Gallagher, and Teresa Elliot (NSNP),” Philadelphia Community Gardens Memory Collection, accessed March 28, 2024, https://phillycommunitygardensmemory.omeka.net/items/show/75.
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