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Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
The story narrated by Patricia Adams during the Armed: A DanCe Demonstration performance.
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Janice Kampbell conducted by dindria barrow on August 25, 2022. In this interview, Janice tells the story of how her parents met each other after World War II in rural Michigan on a blind date. Farming and the military were a part of her parents’ lives and Janice grew up a child of a military pilot and a nurse. Her family moved to a variety of locations in the United States. Janice became a nurse like her mother and retired after 43 years. Janice is a Pierce County Master Gardener and shares her first encounter with planting seeds into frozen dirt with a spoon. Janice concludes her oral history by sharing the history of the Tacoma Urban Land Trust (2010) also previously known as the Guadalupe Land Trust located on Hilltop, Tacoma. The Tacoma Urban Land Trust's website is https://www.tult.org
Part of Community Event Collection
Part of Community Event Collection
Interview with MiShawn Cabrera, Ambassador of Hilltop Artists in Tacoma, 2019
Part of Paul Jackson Digital Videos
MiShawn Cabrera, 2019 Hilltop Artists Ambassador, discusses his ongoing projects in the glass-blowing studio and his entry into glass-blowing as an art form.
Oral history interview with Tacoma resident Chace Hunter conducted by dindria barrow on August 25, 2022. In this interview, Chace talks about his family immigrating to Hilltop, Tacoma in 1993, then moving to South Tacoma in 1998, graduating from Western Washington University as well as University of Washington-Tacoma and then buying a home in Hilltop as an adult. Chace’s family fled Cambodia to escape the Khmer Rouge and were refugees in Thailand before coming to Tacoma. He is bilingual and has been married to his husband for six years. Chace has a passion for poetry, psychology, non-profits and nursing. Chace fell in love with his HIV Prevention work and is now the executive director of the AIDS Housing Association of Tacoma (AHAT Homecare). AHAT Homecare provides 24-hour home care, affordable housing/case management, and rental vouchers to the local HIV+ community. To paraphrase Chace: “I love giving back to the community, especially during a time of houselessness, and helping to provide homes to people in need.”
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 4
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Youth Center Remodel
Two construction workers stand on two planks of wood held up by sawhorses in order to use their hammers on a new ceiling.
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 3
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Sewing Class Begins
Photograph by Jerry Buck
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 2
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Action Upward at Hilltop with story.
Photograph by Richards Studio
Three young children stand on either side on a man holding a basketball.
Hilltop Youth Activities Center - 1
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Checking the net
Three men in suits hold the base of a ladder while two other men in suits stand on the ladder to check the net of a basketball hoop.
Hilltop Library Planning Committee Group Oral History
Hilltop Library Planning Committee includes: front row, Bil Moss and Billie Johnstone; back row, Ellen Smith, Al Nurse and Linda Oliver. This group oral history interview was taken by dindria barrow on behalf of the Community Archives Center of the Tacoma Public Library at the Red Elm Cafe on October 13, 2022.