This interview was conducted by Janice Brockley with Beverly Fenn in her room at Camphill Ghent on July 1, 2015. The beginning of the interview is spent looking for a pair of earrings. Fenn briefly described her move from New Jersey, where she was born and grew up, to New York.
The length of the interview is a reflection of narrator’s desire to end the interview.
This brief interview might be of interest to those researching life in Camphill Ghent.
Janice Brockley is an associate professor of history at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She specializes in the history of intellectual disability, family, and Childhood.
Oral history is an iterative process. In keeping with oral history values of anti-fixity, interviewees will have an opportunity to add, annotate and reflect upon their lives and interviews in perpetuity. Talking back to the archive is a form of “shared authority.”