Voices of Frog Hollow
Dublin Core
Title
Voices of Frog Hollow
Subject
Community Voices of the Frog Hollow Neighborhood
Description
Voices of Frog Hollow is a category which covers the voices and faces behind significant places and projects in the Frog Hollow community. Here you will find the voices behind: The Park Street Library at the Lyric, The Puerto Rican Heritage Trail, the Voices of Frog Hollow Project, The Puerto Rican Day Parade, new Frog Hollow immigrants, and businesses like Montecarlo Bakery, Hip stop, Fiesta time, and La Favorita Barber Shop.
When choosing these people and places, we relied on input from key community members in addition to completing independent research at the Hartford History Center. We used snowball methodology, meaning we used the connections to we had prior, to connect us to other people to interview and include as a "voice." This is not an exhausted list of the voices of Frog Hollow, however. We welcome more submissions, and for this project archive to be continued and added to.
Voces de Frog Hollow incluye referencias y enlaces a otros proyectos de historia y voces emergentes como las provenientes de la comunidad inmigrante guatemalteca, que poco a poco está remodelando este tradicional enclave puertorriqueño en Hartford. Al elegir las personas y los lugares presentados aquí, nos basamos en la información brindada por miembros clave de la comunidad y en investigación de archivo en el Hartford History Center. Esta es claramente solo una muestra del universo de voces de Frog Hollow.
When choosing these people and places, we relied on input from key community members in addition to completing independent research at the Hartford History Center. We used snowball methodology, meaning we used the connections to we had prior, to connect us to other people to interview and include as a "voice." This is not an exhausted list of the voices of Frog Hollow, however. We welcome more submissions, and for this project archive to be continued and added to.
Voces de Frog Hollow incluye referencias y enlaces a otros proyectos de historia y voces emergentes como las provenientes de la comunidad inmigrante guatemalteca, que poco a poco está remodelando este tradicional enclave puertorriqueño en Hartford. Al elegir las personas y los lugares presentados aquí, nos basamos en la información brindada por miembros clave de la comunidad y en investigación de archivo en el Hartford History Center. Esta es claramente solo una muestra del universo de voces de Frog Hollow.
Creator
Frog Hollow Oral History LAAL Research Team
Date
Fall 2021
Language
English and Spanish
Type
Oral History Archives
Collection Items
Nygel White
Nygel White is the current Program Production and Engagement Coordinator at the Hartford Public Library. Growing up right outside of Frog Hollow in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood, Nygel regularly interacted with the community through friends and…
Graciela Rivera
Graciela Rivera is the current Hartford Public Library Park Street Branch manager. Having moved to Frog Hollow at age thirteen, Graciela grew up working in her mother’s hair salon on Park Street, Grace Hair Studio, and frequenting the Hartford Public…
Iran Bruguera
Iran is an entrepreneur who created and owns Hip Stop Clothing, a store centrally located on Park Street in the Frog Hollow Neighborhood. Iran grew up in Frog Hollow and worked at his mother Maria’s business, Fiesta Time, where he learned how to work…
Eliana Sanchez
Eliana Sanchez owns the Montecarlo Bakery on Park Street in Frog Hollow with her cousin Estela Lopez. She opened the bakery in October of 2019. Eliana is a talented pastry and cake baker, while her cousin Estela does the more administrative side of…
Carol Correa
Carol Correa now works at Trinity College as the director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Correa created the Puerto Rican Heritage Trail when she was getting her masters in 2009. She attended Trinity College as an undergraduate, single…
La Favorita Barber Shop Owners
La Favorita Barber Shop on Park Street in Frog Hollow is a family-owned business which he inherited from his uncle, Rosendo. The family of La Favorita Barber Shop has done a lot for the Frog Hollow Community and features a wall in the shop of those…
Sammy Vega
Sammy Vega is the president of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Sammy was born and raised in Frog Hollow as he lived near Park and Broad, went to school in the neighborhood, and regularly visited the library. The Puerto Rican Day parade is an annual…
Guatemalan Immigrants of Frog Hollow
Frog Hollow is known for its diverse and vibrant Latinx community. A new, growing community is the Guatemalan community. Many are single mothers, who have now raised their children in Frog Hollow. They immigrated in hopes of a better future for their…
Leticia Cotto on Celestino Jimenez
Celestino Jimenez was a strong advocate for his community in Frog Hollow, especially for the youth. He was an advocate, an athlete, a poet, and a musician, and a father. He shared his poetry at Luis Cotto's bakery, El Morro. In the membership of many…
Graciela Rivera on Celestino Jimenez
Celestino Jimenez was a strong advocate for his community in Frog Hollow, especially for the youth. He was an advocate, an athlete, a poet, and a musician, and a father. He shared his poetry at Luis Cotto's bakery, El Morro. In the membership of many…