Oral history interview with Avram Patt

PattAvram.pdf
PattAvramAudioLog2015-10-29.pdf

Title

Oral history interview with Avram Patt

Description

Avram Patt describes growing up in the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative in the Bronx, New York, his time at Columbia University, including the student strikes in 1968, his transfer to Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, and his two years working at Bread and Puppet Theater. He speaks of using his knowledge of Yiddish in theater productions, of forming the Nisht Geferlach Klezmer Band, Vermont's only klezmer band, and of Dennis Murphy, who founded the Plainfield Village Gamelan (formerly the Goddard Gamelan). Finally, he talks of helping to develop public transportation in Central Vermont, and of his work at the Washington Electric Cooperative.

Date

29 September 2015

Identifier

AudioFile1970s-9

Format

MP3

Type

Audio File

Coverage

Plainfield (Vt.)

Rights

Permission to publish material from the Vermont 1970s Counterculture Project must be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Interviewer

Blofson, Kate

Interviewee

Patt, Avram, 1950-

Location

Worcester (Vt.)

Duration

2 hr., 16 min., 13 sec.

Repository

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4209

Citation

“Oral history interview with Avram Patt,” Digital Vermont: A Project of the Vermont Historical Society, accessed March 28, 2024, https://www.digitalvermont.org/vt70s/AudioFile1970s-9.