- Reinhardt Reigen Context Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Directing Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Documentation Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Light Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Music Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Reception Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt Reigen Stage Redirect (German)
- Reinhardt's Reigen Digitization Project
Browse Items (74 total)
- Collection: Broome County Oral History Project
Sort by:
Interview with Anne Spisak
Anne Spisak of Endicott, NY talks about working at the General Cigar factory in Binghamton as an examiner. She describes the products they produced and sold at the cigar factory, lack of a labor union, the process of making cigars and the aspects of her job. She mentions getting married and getting ...
Interview with Mary Sovik
Mary Sovik was born in Jamaica, Queens Long Island, NY. She discusses working in a glove factory, the many places she travelled to, and her work in Endicott Johnson up until her retirement. After retirement she states she became a babysitter for doctors, lawyers, and businessmen in Binghamton, NY.
Interview with Dr. Jean Smith
Dr. Jean Smith speaks about her motivations for becoming a physician and why she settled in Chenango Bridge, NY. She received her education at Syracuse University during World War II and went into practice with her brother, Dr. Robert Smith. She dis...
Interview with Mary Shaughnessy
Mary Shaughnessy talks about her birth and upbringing on Henry St. in Binghamton, NY, in an Irish settlementan Irish settlement area. She speaks of working at the Hull Grummond cigar factory and later working for the Endicott Johnson shoe factory. She recounts completing the nursing progr...
Interview with John Sedlak
John Sedlak discusses his upbringing in Endicott as one of seven children of Czechoslovakian immigrants, his work for Endicott Johnson stores as a shoe clerk, where he learned to understand Italian, Russian, and Polish. He tells of his work for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, including wor...
Interview with Dr. Clealand A. Sargent
Dr. Clealand A. Sargent speaks about his upbringing in Richford, Vermont, premedical and medical education at the University of Vermont, and his private practice in Orwell, Vermont and why he had to give it up. He discusses entering the public health field, relating his experiences with different ...
Interview with Olga Riggins
Olga Riggins talks about her parents' courtship and emigration from Europe to the U.S. She talks about her father's store and the ice house he operated. She tells of her variety of jobs - the Endicott Shoe Corporation, Carlova Perfume Factory, Hotel Billingshurst as a maid, and working in ...
Interview with Elodia de Hoyos Planck
Elodia de Hoyos Planck talks about her birth in Mexico, arriving in the U.S. with her family and eventually arriving in Binghamton, NY. She discusses working in the cigar factory as a spotter, in the Endicott-Johnson Corporation as a stitcher, getting married and having three sons who became enginee...
Interview with Louise Petras
Louise Petras talks about emigrating to the U.S. from Czechoslovakia at the age of thirteen, her work cleaning houses for a variety of people, and living on a farm in Chenango Bridge. She also discusses obtaining her citizenship papers.
Interview with Michael M. Perhach
Michael M. Perhach talks about being involved with the church during his youth as his father was an Archpriest in the Russian Orthodox church. He talks about the many places his family lived before moving to Binghamton. He graduated from Albany College of Pharmacy and operated the Junior High ...
