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Parkside: A Camden Neighborhood
Posted July 17th, 2008 by TeishanJewish Camden Partnership and The Parkside Business and Community with Scribe Video Center
This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.2 compilation DVD.
Predominantly Jewish from the early 1900s, the Parkside neighborhood of Camden, New Jersey changed rapidly into an African American community during the 1960s as its former residents moved to the suburbs. Parkside: A Camden Neighborhood is an ethnic history of the area told in the voices of both groups. But while they have raised families in the same neighborhood, attended the same schools and, in some cases, purchased the same homes, current and former residents inherited a different Parkside.
Stickball & Memories Of The Street
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Sharon Barr
With only a broom handle, a rubber ball, a bunch of guys, and a street, you can engage in a full scale, bona fide, serious, respectable game similar in feel to classic baseball. And talk about a field. Who can beat manhole covers for bases, cars and walls for foul lines, roofs for bleachers?
Sharon Barr enrolled in a Scribe non-linear editing workshop in 1997 to learn how to assemble home videos for her parents’ upcoming wedding anniversary. The footage that she brought to class of an annual Brooklyn stick ball in upstate New York developed into Stickballs and Memories of the Street, a short documentary on the history of street games as an aspect of class and culture. Sharon, an attorney with an expertise in real estate, planning and development, provided pro bono services to Scribe in 1998 and joined the board in 1999. As a civic and cultural leader, Barr has served on the Boards of the Painted Bride Art Center (President), NetworkArts Philadelphia (Chair), Scribe Video Center, Mt Airy USA - A Community Development Corporation, the Fairmount Park Advisory Council, the Preservation Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, and as Co-Chair of the Building Committee for Mishkan Shalom Synagogue.
June 13, 2002 - Screen Picks, Philadelphia City Paper
July 3, 2002 - arts and entertainment mention by Michael Elkin, The Jewish Exponent
June 13, 14 & 15, 2002 - Scribe Weekend at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
