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Roeder, who grew up in a Catholic family and attended local Catholic schools, describes taking the subway by herself beginning at the age of 13 to commute to high school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRoeder speaks about her brief experience leaving New York City to attend Emerson College in Boston before deciding to transfer to St. John's University, where she majored in English. Roeder shares her memories of being a college student during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Roeder also speaks about the close relationships she now has with her siblings as adults and the changes she has witnessed in Astoria since childhood, including increasing gentrification. At the time of this interview, Roeder was serving as an associate professor at St. John's University directing its first year writing program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto: Looking east from Crescent Street at St. John's Preparatory School in Astoria, 26 August 2010. 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Roeder recalls growing up in a multi-generational house; in addition to her parents and 4 siblings, she was surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Along with playing in her uncle's backyard pool, Roeder recalls stickball games and other neighborhood activities that made Astoria feel like a close-knit community. Roeder, who grew up in a Catholic family and attended local Catholic schools, describes taking the subway by herself beginning at the age of 13 to commute to high school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eRoeder speaks about her brief experience leaving New York City to attend Emerson College in Boston before deciding to transfer to St. John's University, where she majored in English. Roeder shares her memories of being a college student during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Roeder also speaks about the close relationships she now has with her siblings as adults and the changes she has witnessed in Astoria since childhood, including increasing gentrification. At the time of this interview, Roeder was serving as an associate professor at St. John's University directing its first year writing program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhoto: Looking east from Crescent Street at St. John's Preparatory School in Astoria, 26 August 2010. 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Yes. Okay. This is Annike Engstrom. Today is April 9th, 2024. I'm interviewing Tara Roeder for the first time. This interview is taking place at St. John's University in her office. This interview is part of the Queens Memory Project. So, first I just wanted to have you share where in Queens you grew up, what college you went to, a little bit about your career, and just a couple of your favorite things growing up here and living here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. So, I grew up in Astoria, Queens. I initially went to college at Emerson College in Boston, and I hated Boston so much that I came back and I finished my undergrad at St. John's University, where I'm currently an Associate Professor. And I direct the writing for first year writing program here. And as far as my favorite things growing up in Queens, everything. Okay, I love our libraries, which is because you have—but I felt like Queens and especially where I grew up in Astoria is incredibly diverse. There were just people and kids from all around the world, and we just all used to stay outside and play all day until the sun went down. And so much great food from all over the world. And public transportation, I never learned how to drive, ever. So, I feel like those are some of my favorite things growing up in Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=30.0,89.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay, great. So now I'll just, I was trying to do it more chronologically just because that makes sense in my head for me. So, can you tell me about your family growing up? How long has your family been in Queens? Who did you live with growing up? What did your parents do for work? Was your family religious?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=89.0,104.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. Okay. So, my dad's family were Irish immigrants who were living in Hell's Kitchen during the 1920s and 30's. They moved to Astoria in the late forties, very early, I would say late forties. They moved to Astoria in the late forties when things were super cheap. My grandfather was a manual laborer and they had eight kids and they were able to afford [laughs], and they bought a house at that time on that salary. They were poor, but they could afford a house. And so my dad's family has lived, and I grew up in that same house in Astoria. So, it's been in our family for this whole time. My mom grew up on the Lower East Side. She moved to Astoria when she married my dad in the 1970s. I was born in 80, and we have a three family house. So, when I was growing up, my grandparents and my aunt lived on the first floor and we lived on the second floor. And my other aunt and uncle and our cousins lived on the third floor, and I had four siblings growing up. So, it's a lot of people in this house all throughout history coming and going, kind of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=104.0,179.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e That's really such an interesting way to grow up. I have lots of siblings and a non-traditional way to acquire siblings through fostering. But what was that like? I'm not close with my cousins. How did that kind of relationship between siblings and cousins blurred? Does that make sense?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=179.0,202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, no, yeah, that's a really good question. I think growing up in a multi-generational house, multi-generational house was really cool. And being able to do sleepovers with my cousins who lived upstairs and our other cousins would come sleep over. So, I had about 20 to 25 growing over the years, first cousins on my dad's side, and we were all very close growing up, and some of us still are. And so yeah, every holiday was just crazy. There were so many kids. Yeah, my dad was one of eight. I was one of five. My other uncle had five kids. Another one had three. Another one had three. Another one had three. Yeah! So, there was just a lot of cousins. And I think our family was really, really, really close both geographically and emotionally. We did everything together growing up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=202.0,248.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And you mentioned holidays. Can you speak on that aspect of religion and if that was something super important in your life or how that kind of affected your day to day?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=248.0,262.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. So, I grew up Catholic. My family is Irish Catholic on my dad's side, Polish Catholic on my mom's side. My dad's family was pretty religious. My grandfather went to Mass every day. My grandmother—they were all Eucharistic ministers. Were you Catholic?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=262.0,278.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I wasn't Catholic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=278.0,279.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know if you know what any of these things mean. I am learning so much. I am learning so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=279.0,284.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I am learning so much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=284.0,284.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e I am learning so much. I am learning so much. They were very involved in the church and our local parish. It's called Most Precious Blood [Most Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church]. It was an elementary school which is a weird name. It's a very weird Catholic name. It was right around the corner from us. It was a church and a school, Most Precious Blood [Most Precious Blood School]. And so they were very involved in that. And so, I went to Catholic school. I went to school there. And for holidays—I was not a very religious child, nor am I a religious adult. I loved Halloween and going trick or treating in the neighborhood, but we did have midnight mass every Christmas. We had big Christmas Eve celebrations and Christmas celebrations with the family. Easter, we had fun stuff, but also mass [laughs]. So, it's like every holiday there was fun stuff and then, there was religious obligation stuff kind of that [laughs] you had to do as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=284.0,335.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, yeah. I could totally see as, I mean, my family recently started going to church, and so I was never nine years old being like, \"Oh!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=335.0,345.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, it's different when you're an adult, I think. But yeah, no, I was definitely that 9-year-old like, \"Really?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=345.0,352.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, you mentioned you went to Catholic school. You went your whole life to Catholic school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=352.0,355.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So kindergarten through—and then high school, I went to two Catholic schools in New York City, Dominican Academy, which is in Manhattan. And then I transferred to St. John's Prep [St. John's Preparatory School] which is in Astoria. Those were both Catholic. And then I ended up at St. John's University for my bachelor's and master's. But then I got my PhD at a public at CUNY [City University of New York].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=355.0,379.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And something else you mentioned about one of your favorite things is how diverse Astoria is. How did that kind of—because you went to Catholic school, but then you lived in this super diverse place. What were some of the differences of things you experienced solely at school, being surrounded by other Catholic, identifying at least parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=379.0,400.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, that's interesting. So, I would say both of the schools, well, my elementary school was the local school. And so the diversity of the neighborhood was really sort of evidenced in the school. Most of my classmates were bilingual or multilingual. So, it wasn't incredibly racially diverse, but it was ethnically diverse, linguistically diverse.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=400.0,425.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Honestly, most of the people I knew growing up in the neighborhood were kind of Catholic or Catholic adjacent, just who I knew and who lived on my block because we used to have a lot of people from Italy and from Latin America and Ireland. So, people who tend to come from Catholic countries. And then my high school was very diverse, religion wasn't really a huge—we had a religion class, but it was like B.S. It was like, I don't know. We talked about, we would just talk about anything. So, I don't even know if the majority of people I went to high school with were Catholic or really identified as Catholic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=425.0,467.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Just kind of parents wanting them to be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=467.0,468.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Exactly. And it's like you want your kid to go. And it's the school that I went to St. John's Prep, which is affiliated with St. John's, which I love. It's more affordable than a lot of Catholic schools, and it definitely draws a more diverse student body than a lot of higher price.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=468.0,488.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, makes sense. So, I guess on those topics of school, and you mentioned you never learned to drive. So, another I think pretty niche experience to city kids, but a large population in New York City is transportation to school. Can you talk about how you got to school?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=488.0,508.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. So, when I was in elementary school, I walked around the corner. It was literally across one street to get to my elementary school. When I went to high school, the first year when I was going to school in Manhattan, I took the subway. And it was a quick, easy subway ride from Astoria right to Park Avenue on the 6 train, like Hunter College. I don't know if you're familiar with. It's a quick ride. And then when I transferred to St. John's Prep, it's a long walk to the N train, which is an elevated train and then another long walk from that train to school. But I always took the subway to school. And then in college I took subways and buses. And now, I sometimes usually take Ubers to work.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=508.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And with your—this is just as somebody growing up in a suburb of California, which is a very [unclear] state, the idea of taking and my public transportation, at least where I live, is not really existent. So, the idea of being an elementary school student, because I see kids on the subway—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=551.0,574.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e All the time. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=574.0,575.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Middle school and elementary school, taking that by themselves. I think there are some kids who there's a certain age that they have to reach before their parents are like, \"Okay. You're old enough to ride on the subway.\" Did you have anything like that? Or with siblings, they're like, \"Okay, you can ride with this sibling.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=575.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. So I think, I mean we took the subway everywhere growing up because we didn't have a car until I was—my parents didn't drive until I was older either, but I would always take it with my parents. I think the first time I was able, when I was 13 and I started going high school, it was just like, \"Okay. Well now you're taking the subway by yourself.\" And it just seemed pretty normal. I know [laughs]. It sounds weird but it just seemed kind of normal. Yeah. It's just like, \"Yeah, well now you're going to high school, so you have to take Subway.\" But yeah, but I definitely grew up taking this because my mom's family still lived in Manhattan, and we used to do stuff all over the city. 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Any woman who grew up here could tell you that, right? Anyone woman grew up anywhere. So, I definitely remember dodging sexual harassment a lot on the subway, especially as a young girl in a Catholic school uniform was kind of icky.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=640.0,665.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e But I also have a lot of good memories of the subway, especially getting older where you and your friends can go out and be all these different places. You don't have to worry about drunk driving. It's so much—it gives you a lot of freedom. I feel like as a teenager and ironically keeps you out of trouble more than a lot of my friends who I know who grew up on Long Island or places, or maybe more suburban places where there's not as much to do at night and go around.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=665.0,696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I have a lot of good memories, too of being on the subway with my friends coming home from things in the middle of the night.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=696.0,704.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e That definitely makes sense. Because for me, I had to have my parents drop me off everywhere.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=704.0,709.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's annoying.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=709.0,711.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e We couldn't get anywhere by ourselves. So, then you end up not being able to go places because your parents can't take you or something like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=711.0,717.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. So you're dependent on somebody else to drive you all the time. Did you learn to drive when you were young?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=717.0,723.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I got my license on my 16th birthday.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=723.0,725.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's amazing. Wow. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=725.0,728.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And talking with classmates, even the age you can get your license here is different. You can't get it until, or you can't get your permit until you're 16 whereas I got mine at 15 and a half.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=728.0,741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow. So very different.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=741.0,744.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And just driving culture and ways to get around. Everybody here walks or—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=744.0,752.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Walking too, definitely. Walking I think is a big part of especially some parts of Queens are not very walkable, but Astoria, where I'm from, it's like everything's super pedestrian friendly. Everything's walkable. You wouldn't ever think of driving some place. You would walk a mile before you drove a mile. It just wouldn't make sense, kind of.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=752.0,771.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I think that's definitely something that strikes me not as odd. But just different because and again part of it is California is so much younger, and the way that the cities are built, they're not really built to accommodate walking. You have to have a car.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=771.0,787.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e You have to have a car. Yeah. It's not pedestrian built for pedestrians. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=787.0,792.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, exactly. So just going back a little bit to your childhood. So again, growing up in suburban neighborhood, I had two parks within my one little neighborhood area. All the neighbors knew us. They just were like, \"Oh, yep, she lives over there. They live over there.\" We'd have lemonade stands. Can you relate to that at all growing up in more of a city scape?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=792.0,818.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, I totally can. And I love that you said that because my partner grew up, you sort of grew up in the middle of what I'm thinking of. He grew up in the rural, super, super rural. And he told me that when he was a kid and he would watch Sesame Street, which was filmed a block for me, he felt really bad for the kids there because they didn't have trees and they only had sidewalks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=818.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e But I feel like the sense of community you're talking about, I feel like we definitely had that on my block. So on 38th Street is the street, and we would always, every year we'd have a stickball game and a block party, and all the kids on the block knew each other, and we'd have garage sales outside and we'd play hopscotch and we'd play dolls in each other's backyard.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=840.0,864.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e And I felt like it was really, although it's like New York City, it's you know what I mean? It had a really neighborhood feel. So, there was definitely a community where people knew each other. People looked out for each other, and our parks were, they were just brick with things you could climb on. We didn't have greenery where when I grew up, there was, in the eighties, there was no greenery really. There were three trees on my block, and we call them the first tree, the second tree and the third tree. And we have races to them. But aside from the lack of greenery, I would say the lack of community sounds really similar to what you're describing actually.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=864.0,902.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there maybe one neighbor that just was annoyed with the kids all the time? We had one neighbor that we're not going to walk past their house because they were just annoyed that kids were outside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=902.0,915.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. We had a woman that we called her Mrs. Nosy. And she was always just coming about and trying to scold people for doing things and asking everyone what was going on with their family. And we would run away when we saw her coming. We would hide in someone's hallway. Other than that, I have pretty fond memories of most of my neighbors growing up and I still live there, now. I actually moved away for a couple years to just the Sunnyside. It's a mile away. I am back in Astoria. I'm renting from my parents now because I just love my neighborhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=915.0,951.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So I guess on the flip side of that question, is there one neighbor that you knew if we wanted water and need to go to the bathroom and go to their house, or we knew that they were going to give us something to eat? Just that one neighbor that you kind of always loved?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=951.0,968.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, aside from my grandmother who lived downstairs and my aunt, next door actually my grandmother's best friend lived. And she had a bunch of kids who were kind of the same age as my dad and my uncles. And they had kids who were my age like their son. So, those families grew up together for three generations, my next door neighbors. And then on the other side was also a family who had been there for the same amount of generations and then across the street. So all these families grew up together. So, I would say there were maybe about six houses on my side of the street. And right across the street from us where everyone would just come and go all the time from the fifties when my dad was a kid up until very recently.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=968.0,1011.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I guess I'll just transition to college. You mentioned that you tried out Emerson [Emerson College]. Yeah, tried but [laughs]— Yeah, tried but [laughs]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1011.0,1017.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, tried but [laughs]—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1017.0,1017.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, tried but [laughs]— Yeah, tried but [laughs]— What made you decide to look out of state? Because for me, so many people have always said, \"Well, why would you leave? Why?\" And it gets annoying, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1017.0,1030.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you just want to change?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1030.0,1031.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, I wanted change. I had grown up there my whole life. I mean, almost my whole life, my family wasn't as geographically close as yours was. I mean, not close at all. We lived in the Midwest. Then, we're out by ourselves, but that community I loved but I just wanted to do something different. And everybody wanted to ask me, \"Why are you doing that?\" There was judgment.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1031.0,1056.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I just want to know maybe your process of where you applied? Was this the only out of state school? What drew you to it? And then any kind of scrutiny or judgment you faced?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1056.0,1066.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, no, that's really interesting. So, my family—my dad had gone to college, but no one in else our family really had. So, I was the first one and I did really well in high school, and it wasn't like I really wanted to. I applied to a bunch of schools in New York like NYU [New York University] Hunter [Hunter College]. I applied to Bennington [Bennington College] in Vermont because I like Vermont. I applied to Emerson in Boston just because I really liked their program. I applied to a bunch of places. I get in all the places I applied, but I didn't get the same amount of financial aid, all the places I applied. And at the time, the reason, and it wasn't necessarily that I wanted to move out of state, it was just that I wanted to dorm. Whether that was in New York or outside of New York was because I was 18, I had four younger brothers and sisters, and we lived in a three bedroom apartment with my parents. And it was just getting a little cramped.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1066.0,1121.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e And so I was just like, at this point in my life, I would feel I want a dorm. And NYU did not give me enough money to dorm there. St. John's didn't have dorms at the time. And then I decided, well, it was kind of a stupid thought process. Well Bennington, which is in very rural Vermont, I was like, \"I don't know how to drive, so what am I going to do?\" Boston's a city. I'll go there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1121.0,1145.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Boston's not a horrible place, but it's weird. I am white but I have never experienced so much whiteness as I did in Boston. Most of my friends growing up weren't white, and I was just used to being in environment with people from all over. And it was just being in Boston with all of these white kids with the same kind of writing styles and stuff. It was weird. It was different. I think I just kind of missed, well, I missed my friends. I missed my family. I missed New York, but I didn't get a lot of judgment or anything. But everyone was kind of frustrated. Because after two weeks I told my parents, I'm not doing this. I have to come home. And they're like, \"We told you.\" People didn't think I was going to like Boston [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1145.0,1193.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, then you came back to New York and you said you commuted. Yeah. I commuted. Yeah. I commuted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1193.0,1197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I commuted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1197.0,1197.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I commuted. Yeah. I commuted. 'Cause St. John's didn't have dorms. Talking about finding your major, what exactly did you major in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1197.0,1207.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So undergrad, I majored here in English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1207.0,1212.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And what kind of drew you to that and familial outlook on it and things like that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1212.0,1218.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I always loved reading and writing since I was a little kid. It's my favorite pastime. I just love it. And I did a lot of stuff in high school with writing. And all the schools I applied to, I applied as either creative writing or an English major. And what I thought I wanted to do with it, I think when I was going to St. John's was I was also minoring in Education. And I was thinking about teaching high school English. It was what I was interested in at the time. And then I also minored in French and I was thinking about maybe translation or something like that. But I always knew it was going to be something related to English Language.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1218.0,1264.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, it really came from just, or not just, but interest in your younger years.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1264.0,1271.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That was always my passion in life, and that made the most sense to me. When I did come to St. John's, I had a full scholarship so I could really take my time and study anything that I wanted to. My parents had no expectations about what they wanted us to do or not. They were never like, \"You should major in this.\" My mom actually went back to college when I was in high school to major in Speech Pathology, and my dad was a Special Ed [Special Education] guy, but they never told me what you had to major in or anything like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1271.0,1305.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And do you know or can you think of any sort of impact your college experience and transferring and commuting and majoring had on your younger siblings as an older sibling?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1305.0,1318.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That is interesting. Because my sister—so my sister who came after me ended up going away to college, but not really liking it. But then, my other siblings all went to school locally. Marymount Manhattan [Marymount Manhattan College], Manhattan College, and Pratt [Pratt Institute] is where the rest of them went. And all of my siblings ended up, no, not all of them one of them majored in engineering. But my youngest sister majored in Photography, and she's an artist and she does that. My other sister is in Museum Education. My other brother majored in Acting and Playwriting. So, we all kind of majored in things that you would, except for the engineer, majored in things that you wouldn't expect to be very lucrative paying careers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1318.0,1365.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e The whole, \"Well, what are you going to do with that?\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1365.0,1367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Exactly. We all had those. What are you going to do with that major kind of majors.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1367.0,1372.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Great. So, can I ask what year you were in your undergrad or what years you were in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1372.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, so I graduated high school in '98. So, that means I started undergrad in 1998. And then I can't do math. What 2002? I finished in four years. Okay. Yeah, that would be 2002. Okay. Yeah, that would be 2002.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1380.0,1392.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Yeah, that would be 2002.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1392.0,1392.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Yeah, that would be 2002. Okay. Yeah, that would be 2002. Yeah. 2002. Yes. I got my bachelor's in 2002.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1392.0,1398.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I'm going to ask you about 9/11. Is that okay?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1398.0,1401.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, of course.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1401.0,1402.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. So that's another very transformative event for so many people across the nation. But I think even more isolated to New York City because of how close to everybody's who [unclear] that was. Can you just talk about whatever you want to talk about in terms of that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1402.0,1420.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e I'll never forget that day because I was, at the time, I was—well I was in college, but I was also working. I was working at this writing center at a community college in Queens. And I was late for work, and I was taking a cab to work. And I remember I called; it was before Uber. I called a cab company. I'm waiting on my stoop, and I see this big explosion and nobody really knows what's going on. But I get in my cab and as we're going over this little bridge, it's just a little tiny bridge to get from one side of Queens to the other, my driver pointed out the window and I saw the second tower just fall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1420.0,1460.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e And then, I got to work and people were obviously panicking. Someone's kid went to school down there. My dad worked not super close, but close enough. My uncle worked at Wall Street, so everyone was freaking out about what to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1460.0,1476.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Then, they were letting schools out early. So, me and my friend went to pick up my brother and her brother at high school. And then, we were all just kind of walking around aimlessly. Nobody knew what was going on, but it was a very—I'll just never forget the—you could feel everything kind was changing that day.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1476.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e And then I just remember the weeks after it and everything. And then when I started teaching, one thing I was teaching here soon after that was what an impact that had on my Muslim students. And the way Islamophobia just became this huge crisis after that and what all those kids grew up dealing with. So, I felt like that aftermath really hit for a long time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And talking about that aftermath, was there anything that you felt like directly impacted you from that day? Change either in your everyday life or just the way that you were navigating living in a city like this?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1530.0,1544.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's a really interesting question. I mean the biggest thing to me was that change was air travel and how easy it was to travel before, then. But honestly, no. It was a huge tragedy. It was a big change to the skyline. I grew up with it, obviously, but I wasn't more scared or anything after that. But it also could have been because of the age I was. I wasn't young. My sister, my youngest sister was very young when it happened. And she was drawing really disturbing pictures of people falling out of buildings and stuff. So, I definitely know that for the generation—how old were you? Were you even born? I wasn't born. I wasn't born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1544.0,1591.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I wasn't born.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1591.0,1591.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e I wasn't born. I wasn't born. You weren't born yet? Okay. Yeah, because my sister's a lot older than you. She's 30 now. I call her my baby sister. But she was a kid at the time, five or six, and she was definitely having a lot of trauma processing it. And then there were some people, obviously we knew people who lost people. Nobody super close to me died in the collapse. So, I think that also gave it a little more distance than it had for some people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1591.0,1617.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And talking about the impacts for your sister, did you notice a change in the way she grew up on your block versus the way you did because of heightened sense of security from parents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1617.0,1629.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I know that's something people have talked about is this change in how you kept your kids safe or felt like you were keeping your kids safe? Did you notice she wasn't allowed to play outside as long as you felt like you had, or just subway riding things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1629.0,1645.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e No. Honestly, I would have to say it's the opposite. But that's just because she's 13 years younger than me. So, by the time you've had five kids and your youngest one, you know what I mean? You just don't have the energy to be as monitoring of them, I feel. So, I feel like she got a lot more freedom kind of as a young kid. And also she had us to look out for her. So, I could definitely see how for some people it would go in that direction. But I think just because of the age difference and how many kids there were in between, there wasn't really, they were not more protective of her. They were definitely more protective of—also in the eighties, there was stranger danger. Everyone was always telling you that people were going to offer you candy and come in their car. We grew up thinking this was going to happen. So, I feel like things were maybe a little more chill in that way later on.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1645.0,1694.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I mean as the middle kid with younger siblings, I definitely see the—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1694.0,1701.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Do they get to do things you couldn't?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1701.0,1702.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, all the time. And it's even more so for my oldest sister, and she—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1702.0,1707.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e She resents it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1707.0,1708.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. She gets a little perturbed by it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1708.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e No. I can see that as the oldest. I'm glad that they have a lot of freedom. And I'm glad that I was the first one because if my parents were going to experiment on anyone, I turned out okay. But definitely there's a huge difference based on your place in the family.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1710.0,1725.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. So, can you just talk more about growing up with your siblings in the city? I love talking about my siblings. I feel like, and maybe I didn't when I was younger, but in hindsight they've impacted me in so many ways. If you just want to talk about your siblings.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1725.0,1741.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Sure. I love my siblings. We're super close as adults. None of us have kids, and not that some of us might in the future. Not me. So, as we grew up we still kind of just have fun and goof around together when we were kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1741.0,1757.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, we were all really close growing up. How many years are we apart? My sister and I are a year and a half apart. And then, her and the next brother are two years apart, and then they're four years apart. And then, my youngest sister came after later. But we played—we just had a lot of imagination and we had all these. We would play together every day. We would make up all these games together. We would fight a lot, but nothing super serious. We had a lot of jokes and we'd put on shows and we'd do things with our cousins. And we'd have fake Olympics in the summer, and we'd play murder mysteries with our dolls. We just had really creative [laughs], fun childhood.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1757.0,1802.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e And then, things change over the years. But as adults, we all still live really close to each other, except for one of my sisters who moved to Cold Spring, which is just a little bit [unclear], and it's Hudson Valley. It's still commutable. And the rest of them, we all live in Astoria. Every year we still have the stickball game on my block that we've had since we were kids and the uncles and everyone comes back and plays.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1802.0,1829.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. They're very creative and interesting people. And we go to trivia together in Astoria. We cat-sit each other's cats. We go to movies. We just do a lot of stuff. I would say they're definitely my best friends. I wouldn't have said that when I was young. You never think that, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1829.0,1846.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Never.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1846.0,1847.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e But are you at the stage yet where they're your best friends? Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1847.0,1849.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1849.0,1849.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1849.0,1849.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah. Getting to. Yeah. For me, the switch was my older sister. I mean, she's my oldest sibling, oldest sister when she went to college. We always talk about how we hated each other up until she graduated high school. Just constant—we're four years apart. My brother's in between us and my brother and sister are very, very competitive. So, I was just kind of the younger sister that wanted to tag along.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1849.0,1874.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e As they were competing with each other?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1874.0,1876.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. And not always having helpful insight or actions in her mind. And so then when she came back from her first college break, Thanksgiving, was when things kind of changed. And then her first year was covid year, so— Oh, that's tough. Oh, that's tough.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1876.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's tough.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1893.0,1893.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, that's tough. Oh, that's tough. She went into her second semester in 2020 and came home and when was home, and we're best friends, now. But with my younger sister, it's also having that switch. We're three and a half years apart. This is my first year in college and I'm slowly realizing, \"Oh, she's a real person.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1893.0,1911.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, exactly. No, I love when that happens. No, and I would say, yeah, my sister, who's a year and a half younger than me, she's my best friend. We do it like you and your sister. My youngest sister who's 30 now, she was a baby that I used to take care of and pick up from school. And now, I always think it's funny when we go out and have a drink together, I'm like, \"Oh my God!\" But yeah, I love that age when it switches from the fighting and stuff into when you realize, \"Wow! These people have been with me my entire life. And we share all these memories and now we're like good friends.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1911.0,1946.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e The switch is definitely happening with my younger sister, because my mom recently texted me that she had her first college guidance meeting, which they could start them kind of young at my high school. But every time we just have this joke that she's only 12 years old.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1946.0,1960.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. That's so funny. That's so cute. I love it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1960.0,1963.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e She's actually 15.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1963.0,1965.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1965.0,1966.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Turning 16 this year. She's, what?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1966.0,1969.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's crazy. Yeah, they grow up so fast.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1969.0,1972.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. You mentioned the stickball. I think that's kind of a great segue just into family traditions and anything that was super significant to you growing up that's maybe carried on into adult life or just kind of dropped off for whatever reason. Just any family traditions that you hold near dear to your heart?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1972.0,1991.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, one thing was that we used to rent houses where my dad and his brother and people would chip in because we rarely got out of the city. But once a summer or whatever, we'd go and it was the biggest deal to us, and it was, \"We're going to the country.\" It was the Poconos. They were like, \"Wait, we're in the woods!\" But it was such an adventure for us and to go by a lake. It was very exciting. Now, we can do it when we want. But when we were younger, it was tough for my parents to travel. They were working. We didn't have a lot of money so it was a huge deal for us to do these kind vacations. A bunch of people from the family and friends would go and just for a couple of days, but go someplace else. And we still do that and it's so much fun. And we love to play board games. So, that definitely those vacations were something that I really treasured. My uncle, who lived in Astoria as well, had a pool in his backyard which was so rare. I bet everyone where you're from has pools, right? Yes, yes. Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=1991.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2057.0,2057.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Have you noticed people here do not?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2057.0,2059.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e They don't. And the other thing is, if they do, they're not open until the summer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2059.0,2063.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Exactly. Yeah. Right. So, you had a pool all year round. Yeah. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2063.0,2066.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2066.0,2066.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Yeah. I'm jealous. I would trade places with you in a second. My dream is have a pool in my backyard all year round, but we have a very small backyard. My uncle had a slightly bigger backyard, so he had a pool. And it was like, that was the best thing about the summer. We would go over all the time. We'd come up with all these games. All my cousins would go over. I just loved swimming in the pool. It was amazing when that happened.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2066.0,2088.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, that's one of the things my boyfriend says is sad. He's like, \"That's really sad.\" But I felt like it was the most exciting thing in the world. And then we did have those block parties and stickball games. Do you know what stickball is?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2088.0,2102.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Not really.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2102.0,2103.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/128","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e I think they only played in New York. And it's like an old game like the fifties or whatever. My dad and his brothers play in the seventies. But basically, you stand in the middle of the street, where cars are coming down, and you have a stick like a broomstick and you hit a ball and you pretend that bases are down the street. And then, I don't even know how to explain it, but it's an old fashioned city street game or whatever. It's not super safe to play. It never was. So, that was something that they would do, and it was sort of like a tradition they would pass on. My dad and his brothers were passing on to the younger generation, and now they're passing it on to their kids. So, we still have that every year. I don't know. Those are some traditions. Everything's related to summer I think, because the weather's changed.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2103.0,2152.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/129","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. That is another big difference I'm experiencing. Logically, I understand. But to actually experience something like that is weird.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2152.0,2161.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, is this your first seasonal?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2161.0,2164.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. I mean I was born in Michigan.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2164.0,2166.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, you have only winter there?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2166.0,2169.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Kind of [laughs].","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2169.0,2171.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Winter and summer?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2171.0,2173.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. Yeah. I was only there for two years, so it's not like I even remember. But the sibling games, them being dangerous is I think what makes them some of the best games. There's always that little bit of risk involved. Mine we're always on trampolines and many hospital trips because of trampolines. And yet my parents still, they—","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2173.0,2194.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Still let you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2194.0,2195.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Still let us have a trampoline.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2195.0,2196.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e We weren't allowed on trampolines for that reason because they were so dangerous. Right? Yeah. That's cool. You still got to do that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2196.0,2202.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, we still have a trampoline. We didn't have 'em for a while. And the sort of first round of siblings and my family we're all older now where we aren't asking for a trampoline for Christmas. But my parents got one for myself, my older brother and older sister's birthday one year. And my mom was like, \"I just loved listening to you guys playing outside.\" That's awesome, and do you still use it? That's awesome, and do you still use it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2202.0,2225.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's awesome, and do you still use it?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2225.0,2225.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/141","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e That's awesome, and do you still use it? That's awesome, and do you still use it? Every now and then. But my younger siblings love it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2225.0,2231.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Oh, good. So, it's like you're keeping the family traditional alive with the trampoline.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2231.0,2234.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. That's great. But definitely lots of ER [Emergency Room] trips. I was often the victim of those.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2234.0,2242.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, just a couple more questions just to kind of wrap up. So, are there any stark differences that you noticed between the Queens you grew up in versus the Queens you experienced today and live in?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2242.0,2253.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/145","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. I would say my neighborhood in particular has become very gentrified to where when I was growing up. It was definitely a multi-ethnic working-class neighborhood. Families could afford to live there. It's really not anymore. And one really sad thing is that I always loved all the houses on my block because they were all different. They were built at different times, and they were built of different materials. And I knew everyone who lived in them. And as the older residents die, a lot of times their children will sell the houses. Nobody wants to buy the houses and keep them. They knock them down to build up ugly four story duplexes. And so all around me outside my window and up and down the block, I just see these houses that I remember that I used to love, they're not there anymore. And there's just these same kind of ugly, flat buildings that are incredibly unaffordable going up.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2253.0,2311.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/146","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So that's one difference that's not so positive. But I would also say there is a lot more tolerance and diversity as far as religion and different kinds of food and queer having queer bars in the neighborhood and things like that. So, it's always kind of like a two-edged thing. Things might be safer, but some people might be getting pushed out who used to be able to live there. But now there's a big Eid celebration. And years ago, there was more discrimination against people who weren't Christian. So, it's changing. And I wouldn't say it's good or bad, but it's just like I have definitely noticed changes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2311.0,2362.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/147","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Just an evolution of the people and the physical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2362.0,2367.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/148","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, exactly. The people in the physical space. And what does that mean?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2367.0,2371.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, this I guess kind of touches on that last question is what has your overall experience living in Queens been generally positive, negative? Are there things you wish were different either now or from your childhood that you just have thought about before?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2371.0,2388.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/150","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. No, for me, I would say overwhelmingly positive. I am Queens' biggest cheerleader. I love Queens, and I have friends from Brooklyn who were [unclear] and the Bronx. Everyone thinks their borough is the best. Now teaching here, how many languages do students here speak? It's great. People in Queens speak more languages than almost any place in the planet. So, I just think there's something really cool about being someplace where you can go to Flushing and go to the Chinatown in Flushing. And then you could go to Astoria and then you could, I keep saying Astoria because I love Astoria, but there's so many, Forest Hills. There's just so many Long Island City. Where else in Queens? Where have you been in Queens?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2388.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e My friends and I love to go to Forest Hills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2439.0,2441.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/152","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah! That's a great place for your age.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2441.0,2445.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/153","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e There's lots of great restaurants and there's a Trader Joe's there and medical offices and stuff.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2445.0,2450.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/154","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. That makes a lot of sense.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2450.0,2452.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/155","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Easy to get to.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2452.0,2453.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/156","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e It's easy to get to from here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2453.0,2454.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/157","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e And it's very easy to manage navigating. It's somebody who didn't grow up in a place like this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2454.0,2459.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/158","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. It's a very good neighborhood. It's a walkable neighborhood. There's a lot of stuff there. So, I just think that Queens has a lot of diversity in different parts of it, what they're like, and it's just fun. And also, it's so close to Brooklyn and Manhattan too. It's not just like, \"Oh, you live in Queens and that's it.\" I take the subway to Brooklyn and Manhattan a couple times a week. And growing up, I was in Brooklyn, Manhattan almost every day where my friends were.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2459.0,2486.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/159","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e So, that's another thing that I love is just being able to get all over New York City. That's really cool. That I really appreciate because just growing up in a big city like that and being able to go from place to place from the time I was little. I didn't always—every Christmas we'd go to Rockefeller Center and go ice skating. And we'd go to Macy's and see the windows and see Santa and go to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Just all the stuff that people come to New York from all around the world to do, I just took it for granted as a kid. That's what you do at Christmas time. So, that's something that I'm really appreciative of now that I'm older.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2486.0,2523.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/160","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I can kind of look back on that. Having that sort of experiences for the first time ever. Thanksgiving always sitting, watching the Macy's Day parade three hours after it happened because of the time change. And just being like, \"Oh my gosh.\" And now that's something that I can go do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2523.0,2541.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/161","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you go?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2541.0,2542.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/162","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I didn't go this year, but it's on the bucket list to do.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2542.0,2546.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/163","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Sometimes they have St. John's students who hold up because my colleague does that here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2546.0,2551.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/164","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, the dance team danced.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2551.0,2552.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e That's so cool. Yeah. So, there's opportunities for you to participate in that if you want. But that's cool.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2552.0,2558.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, I guess talking about things that you experience here and looking at New York City in the media specifically TV and film. I was recently just watching the Spider-Man movies. And he's from Queens.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2558.0,2571.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/167","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, he's from Forest Hills.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2571.0,2575.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/168","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Is there any movie that you've watched before that's supposed to be in New York City and you're like, \"That is totally inaccurate?\" Or just thinking about stuff that how it's represented?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2575.0,2585.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/169","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e There was one movie that was supposed to be set actually in Astoria, and it made it seem like we were, it was gangs, Italian gangs and Irish gangs. And I forget the name of it, it might've been a Guide to Knowing Your Saints [A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, corrected by transcript editor], or it might've been something, or maybe there were two. I don't know. But I've definitely seen two movies about my neighborhood that were so inauthentic. But I guess mean if you look at a lot of—I don't watch a lot of movies, to be honest. So, I'm trying to think. Are there any movies you can think of about New York City that have come out recently? I can't even really think of any.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2585.0,2632.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/170","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah. The ones that I think of most are just older romcoms that are all set about the woman working in Manhattan and finance and things like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2632.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/171","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. So that's the fantasy, right? Those movies are the fantasy of what it's like to live in New York City. And I bet people probably come here and they get really disappointed that life isn't like Sex in the City or something like that. Yeah. Okay. I think that romanticized trope about the glamorous young woman working in Manhattan, and you know what I mean, that actually is so unrealistic. I was thinking more about gritty crime. But honestly if you look at back in the day movies, New York had a ton of crime. So, that's way more realistic than the thing that you're talking about with their romantic comedies.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2640.0,2680.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/172","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e So, those are all my questions. I guess the last thing is just, is there anything else you'd want to share about living in Queens growing up, just experiencing it that we just haven't really touched on anything?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2680.0,2693.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/173","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you ever been to Flushing Meadow Park?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2693.0,2696.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/174","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I haven't been to the park. No, I haven't.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2696.0,2698.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/175","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e One thing that I should mention that I would be remiss not to is the Mets. My family is obsessed with the New York Mets, and that I feel like is a huge part of a Queens identity. Mets fans are like, everyone's fans are crazy, right? Everyone's like, but there's just something because the Mets don't win a lot and they're very bad, but they have a very loyal fan base over the years. And people were just really committed. People from Queens were really committed to the Mets. And so that's something that I feel is a big part of having a Queens identity. And I don't know, I guess I can't think of anything else at the top Rockaway Beach. We have a beach.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2698.0,2742.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e I've heard a lot about it. I haven't been.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2742.0,2744.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/177","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e It's also a Ramones song and they're from here. We got a little good music, a little good music coming out in New York. But yeah, there's a beach in Queens, which is cool. So yeah, that would be the last thing, I guess, that I would offer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2744.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/178","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnnike Engstrom:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Great. Well, that's all I have. Thank you so much for doing this.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2760.0,2764.0"},{"id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562/transcript/78758/annotation/179","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTara Roeder:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you. That was fun. Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/21/collection_resources/146632/file/270562#t=2764.0,2766.816"}]}]}]}