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David attended the University of Georgia and then the Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service. He started working for his father and uncle in their funeral business, while in college, and in 1990, he purchased the business from his uncle. David is part of a long history of Sterns in Albany, Georgia beginning in the 1920’s. He is married with 2 children and still lives and runs his business in Albany.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with David introducing himself, his parents, grandparents, and the history of his family in Albany, Georgia. He then goes on to explain the history of his family business, how he came into funeral directing, and what it was like growing up Jewish in Albany. David shares his relationships with African-Americans, civil rights, and working with folks of all different backgrounds and religions. He recalls perceptions of surprise from non-Southerners regarding Southern Jews. He then describes how important his religion was to his growing up, including seders, religious school, and confirmation. The conversation shifts to the drop in the number of Jewish folks in Albany, the challenge to engage younger families in the synagogue, and the decision to send children to public versus private schools. David presents ideas for revitalizing the town of Albany, and what he believes would bring people and organizations back to the town. He reflects on why Albany has historically been a very tolerant town, and answers who Slappey Drive is named for.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29214"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Stern, Charles Marks (1926-1981) (personal name)","Hinchin, Rabbi Martin I. (1919-2022) (personal name)","Stern, Estelle Marks (1892-1969) (personal name)","Stern, Eric Julius “Buck” Jr. (1921-1998) (personal name)","Marks, Henry Charles (1828-1907) (personal name)","Marks, Charles Henry (1865-1959) (personal name)","Marks, Leopold “Lape” Henry (1959-1935) (personal name)","Kimbrell, Walter Robert “Bob” (1920-2000) (personal name)","Landau, Rabbi Edmund A. 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David attended the University of Georgia and then the Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service. He started working for his father and uncle in their funeral business, while in college, and in 1990, he purchased the business from his uncle. David is part of a long history of Sterns in Albany, Georgia beginning in the 1920\u0026rsquo;s. He is married with 2 children and still lives and runs his business in Albany.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview begins with David introducing himself, his parents, grandparents, and the history of his family in Albany, Georgia. He then goes on to explain the history of his family business, how he came into funeral directing, and what it was like growing up Jewish in Albany. David shares his relationships with African-Americans, civil rights, and working with folks of all different backgrounds and religions. He recalls perceptions of surprise from non-Southerners regarding Southern Jews. He then describes how important his religion was to his growing up, including seders, religious school, and confirmation. The conversation shifts to the drop in the number of Jewish folks in Albany, the challenge to engage younger families in the synagogue, and the decision to send children to public versus private schools. David presents ideas for revitalizing the town of Albany, and what he believes would bring people and organizations back to the town. He reflects on why Albany has historically been a very tolerant town, and answers who Slappey Drive is named for.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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My name is Sandy\r\nBerman, and I am just thrilled that you have agreed to participate in this\r\nproject. I'd like to begin by just asking you to tell me a little bit about your\r\nown background. When you were born, your parents' names, if anything, sounds a\r\nlittle difficult for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the\n\r\ntranscriber, if you could spell out the names, and how your family ended up in Albany.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Okay. My name, full name [is] David Marks Stern. I was born and raised\r\nhere in Albany, born March 29, 1961. If you can do the math, I'm turning 50 in a\r\ncouple of weeks. I was educated in [the] public school systems here in Albany,\r\n[and] graduated from Albany High School. Attended and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"graduated\n\r\n from\r\n\r\nthe University of Georgia with a BBA in finance. And then went on to\r\nGupton-Jones College of Funeral Service in Atlanta, where I received training in\r\nmortuary science. And have been back here in Albany since 1984, full time at our\r\nbusiness here. My parents, my father is Charles Marks Stern, who was actually\r\nborn in Demopolis, Alabama, but grew up ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here\n\r\nin Albany. My mother, Virginia Jackson Stern, [was] from Cartersville, Georgia.\r\nMy mom and dad married in Cartersville by Rabbi Martin Hinchin. [They] came back\r\nto Albany, where Dad was engaged in our business here. And that's a brief\r\nhistory of me.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What about the grandparents?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Grandparents on my father's side. Grandfather, paternal ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandfather,\n\r\nwas Erich Julius Stern, born in Frankfurt, Germany. His wife, my paternal\r\ngrandmother, Estelle, well really, it's Jeanette Estelle Marks, who was actually\r\nborn in Milwaukee [Wisconsin]. They had three children, the oldest, Caroline, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"died\n\r\nas an infant, then my uncle, Erich Julius Stern Junior, who affectionately was\r\nknown as Buck to everybody. [He was] born in Demopolis but grew up here in\r\nAlbany, and then my father was the baby. On my mother's side, they were from\r\nCartersville. Lawson Erwin Jackson and Betty Brandon Jackson.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: How ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did\n\r\nyour grandparents end up in Demopolis, Alabama?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, that's a little family history that I'm not real sure of. The\r\nfamily joke is, you know, \"Sterns did everything differently\". Apparently, they\r\ncame through Ellis Island. The first of the Stern family that came was my Great\r\nUncle Heinz, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who\n\r\ncame and he ended up . . . apparently there was someone in Demopolis that\r\nsponsored him because immigrants of that time had to have a sponsor. He got to\r\nDemopolis and started buying land, because in Europe, Jews, one of the things\r\nthat they could not do was actually own property. And Uncle Heinz began buying\r\nsome land and then enough [land] to where he could farm. He began ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sending\n\r\nmoney back to Germany until his brothers and then his parents could come. There\r\nwere four brothers Gitto, Heinz, Erich my grandfather, and Otto, and then my\r\ngrandparents, Max and Marilena. All of them came in in the 1920's. They all\r\nlived under one roof in Demopolis, Alabama.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Are there ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"any\n\r\nstories about adjusting, this little immigrant family, adjusting to life in Demopolis?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, apparently, they adjusted well. I can remember in the 1960's, going\r\nover to Demopolis. By that time Uncle Heinz had become fairly successful and his\r\nfarm was called El Dorado Farms. I don't remember much because I was young, but\r\nI do ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"remember\n\r\n. . . The thing that I remember the most, was he had a lot of modern\r\nconveniences in his home, but no air conditioning. Because of the heat during\r\nthe summer, he couldn't come in and get cool and [then] warm [again]. I remember\r\nlunches there, everybody, if the weather was nice, ate outside. Uncle Heinz and\r\nour family, the workers who mainly were black at the time, we all ate at the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"same\n\r\ntable, all ate the same food, and all at the same time. That's what I remember.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What did he raise on the farm?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I can remember mainly like row crops, cotton and those type of things.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What happened to it?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, Uncle Heinz died, I believe, in either 1967 or 1968. All of his\r\nchildren left the farm and did not want to farm, and I'm assuming that the farm\r\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sold.\n\r\nThat side of the family, I'm sorry to say, I did not keep in touch [with] as\r\nwell. But I do know I have cousins in New Orleans. The Alabama cousins, I don't\r\nreally know that well.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: So why did they move, your grandparents, from Demopolis to Albany?\r\n\r\nSTERN: My grandmother, Estelle Marks, who everybody called ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Stella,\n\r\nher father, the Marks family came to Albany in 1904. My great-great grandfather\r\nwas Henry Charles Marks, who came from Forbach, France to Cincinnati and married\r\nhis wife. I can't remember her name, it's in our paper there. But Dr. Weiss in\r\nCincinnati married them, and they had ten ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children.\n\r\nTwo of them, Leopold Henry Marks, and they are called Uncle Lape, came to Albany\r\nin the brewing business, and my great grandfather, his brother came down here as\r\nwell, in the brewing business. My great grandfather, Charles Henry Marks opened\r\nback then, would have been a saloon, called the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Rialto,\n\r\nand it was an Albany landmark for years.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: I wish it was still around. So, then the Marks side married the Stern side.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Correct.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: How did that all come about?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I am assuming . . . Back in those early years, the Jewish communities in\r\nthese small towns usually ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gathered.\n\r\nI'd always heard a lot of times in Columbus [Georgia] where they would have\r\ndances and meetings, and I'm assuming that they met through those things and got\r\nmarried. When they married, they moved to Demopolis to be with the Sterns. My\r\ngrandfather at that time, was a merchant, which was traveling salesperson. I do\r\nremember them saying there was a house fire in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Demopolis.\n\r\nTheir youngest or their oldest child had died, and for whatever reason they\r\ndecided to move back to Albany. My grandfather still traveled, but I guess to be\r\ncloser to the Marks side, and my dad and uncle were raised and went to school\r\nhere in Albany.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: You have a great background. I love all the . . . That's great. So, they\r\nwere ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"originally\n\r\nin the saloon business here?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Correct.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: And how did they get into? I know you're now in the funeral business,\r\nhow did that come about?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, my dad and my Uncle Buck, Uncle Buck, was five years older than my\r\ndad. In those years, in the 1930's and 1940's, funeral homes ran ambulance calls\r\nin all the communities. When people needed ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"help\n\r\non the ambulance, they recruited whoever was close by. For young kids with no\r\nTV, and little exposure, that was the town excitement. I guess my uncle, you\r\nknow, the bug kind of bit him and his best friend, Bob Kimbrell. And then as my\r\ndad got older, they began working at the funeral home for a husband and wife\r\nthat owned the business. And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she\n\r\ndied in 1950, and sold the business then to my dad and uncle and Bob Kimbrell,\r\nwho operated until their retirement. Then I became active in the business and\r\ncontinuing on to this day.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Do you have siblings in the business also?\r\n\r\nSTERN: No, I have two brothers, neither of whom were interested in it.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: How did you get the bug?\r\n\r\nSTERN: When I was in college my freshman year at the University of Georgia, I\r\nnever worked ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"here\n\r\ngrowing up, and I needed a job in the summer. Dad needed some help and said,\r\n\"Well, you can help us out this summer\". And I began working here doing menial\r\nthings, and I saw the impact on people's lives. I thought, \"well, you know, this\r\nmay be something that I could do\". I told my dad and he said, \"Well, you're\r\ngoing to finish at the University of Georgia, and then you can make your\r\ndecision\". That would have been in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1979\n\r\nduring the summer, and work with Dad, and then Dad died two years later in 1981\r\nand [I’ve] been here ever since.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did you always know you would stay in Albany? Or did you think about . . .\r\n\r\nSTERN: No. Of course, when you graduate from high school and you're from a small\r\nsouthern town, you naturally think that you're going to move away. I went, like\r\nI said, to the University of Georgia, then a year in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta.\n\r\nBut when I was in Atlanta, I knew I was coming back, and I really haven't\r\nregretted it.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: That's great. Did you go to public school?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I did, public schools here [Albany].\r\n\r\nBERMAN: And did you . . . were you active in the Jewish community in the\r\nsynagogue life growing up?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes. I say I was. My dad was president of the congregation right around\r\nfrom about 1970 to 1973. 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Why do we have to go Friday night, Sundays?\" And ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then\n\r\nduring their bar and bat mitzvah year, they were there on Saturdays. There was a\r\nstrong association with me with the synagogue growing up. Made me a little\r\nrebellious as I got a little older. But it's funny how you go back.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did you associate mostly with the kids at the synagogue or did you have\r\nfriends across the board?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Across the board. 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The Jewish families here were accepted well within the\r\ncommunity, enjoyed prominent positions in the community, mayors, city leaders.\r\nSo, growing up Jewish in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Albany,\n\r\nI mean it was . . . the way we always said was the differences, we go to\r\nservices on Friday night and our friends go on Sunday, and that was the\r\ndifference. Bob Kimbrell, my uncle's best friend, said he spent more time in\r\nsynagogue than most of the Jewish families did, and he was Methodist. He knew\r\nJewish religion better than a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot\n\r\nof Jewish people do. That was just the way they were growing up.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What was your neighborhood like, growing up?\r\n\r\nSTERN: My neighborhood when I when I grew up, actually, my brother still lives\r\nin the house that I grew up in. [It was] mostly boys in that neighborhood, we\r\nall grew up playing sports, baseball, football, depending on the season. 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We all played sports together ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and,\n\r\nyou know, we had coaches who were black [who] commanded as much respect as the\r\nwhite coaches.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: When the schools switched over, when they became integrated, it was just\r\na very easy transition?\r\n\r\nSTERN: It was, I think . . . at my school, and it [happened] when I was in\r\nelementary school. Integration really . . . they were I think, at that time, I\r\ncan remember maybe four black families [in Albany] with several ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"children.\n\r\nIt was the Belks, the Rivers, and the Chaneys. We all went through school\r\ntogether. Like the Belk family, every one of those [kids] are just upstanding\r\nguys. They all were basketball players, they've all gotten, you know, the lot\r\nwith master’s degrees and are friends to this day.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did they stay in Albany, all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"these\n\r\n families?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Several. The Belk guys, they did. The Rivers and the Chaneys, I mean, we\r\ngraduated school, and then maybe have lost . . . but see each other at some\r\nreunions. I think for the most part, a lot of them are still here.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: You're a little young for me to ask this question, but I've asked it of\r\neverybody else, so I'm going to go for it, and see if your family discussed, or\r\nyou remember ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anything\n\r\nabout what they call the Albany Movement, and the marching?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I was . . . the Albany Movement actually was the time I was an infant,\r\nand I don't recall anything about it. But one of the people in our neighborhood,\r\nMr. Hamilton, was a policeman, and he retired and had since moved to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Maine.\n\r\nI did not know it, but during his lifetime, he kept the key to the jail cell\r\nthat Martin Luther King was in, here. He had since, I think, given it to or his\r\nfamily has given that back to the museum, the Civil Rights Museum here. But it\r\nwas . . . I was an infant . . . and I just didn't hear that much about that\r\ngrowing up. By the time that I was . . . the tensions ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had\n\r\nfor the most part ceased that I can remember.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Was everything already changing? Like the drinking fountains and the . . .\r\n\r\nSTERN: Oh, yes, that was all changed. I don't remember the segregated fountains.\r\nI don't remember the lunch counters. My earliest recollections would have been\r\nin 1965, 1966, 1967, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\n\r\nif they were still, I did not remember it. Then as I got older, all that had stopped.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did your family discuss any of that [segregation] as you were growing\r\nup? I mean, even later, did they reflect upon the times when things were not so\r\n. . .?\r\n\r\nSTERN: No. We were taught how to treat people the same, with the same courtesies\r\nthat we would want to be treated. 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Did you and Mamie Lee ever discuss civil rights ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or\n\r\n. . .?\r\n\r\nSTERN: No, we never did. Even as I got older, and back working. It's funny,\r\nhere, when I came back [to Albany] and Dad died in 1981, and Bob Kimbrell and\r\nUncle Buck retired in 1990, and we bought . . . they sold the business to us. My\r\nmother was my employee, and Mamie ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Lee\n\r\nwas an employee. So, you know, it's funny how that came around. But even as we\r\ngot older, you know, Mamie Lee never, we never talked about it.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Has this establishment [Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors] always served\r\nthe entire community? 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It's a\r\ngood way to learn different ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"things.\n\r\nBERMAN: I know that the funeral business is a serious business. I mean, you're\r\nhelping grieving families. But are there any anecdotes about your years in\r\nbusiness with your parent that you'd like to share, maybe like a memorable\r\nincident that might have happened?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Oh, there are a lot, but you know it . . .\r\n\r\nBERMAN: You can give us a few.\r\n\r\nSTERN: I'm trying to think . . . 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I tell people ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like\n\r\nyou, I never see anybody on a good day. When I see somebody, it's on the worst\r\nday of their life. I feel like if I can help get you through this and get you\r\nback into a functioning member of society, you know, that's my job and that's\r\nwhat I want to do. So in saying that, when I'm meeting with people on the worst\r\nday of their life, you know, you want to help them. 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He comes to my house, and I go to\r\nhis house and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"since\n\r\nhis father has died and we've handled his service, they're almost like family.\r\nYou know, where else could you do that, but here in Albany?\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did you join a Jewish fraternity at Georgia?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I didn't. The reason [was] I lived in the smallest dorm on campus, and\r\n[there were] a lot of Jewish guys there from up north who we Southernized. 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I\r\nhad one.\"\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Tell me how you Southernized those northern boys?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\n\r\nhad come down and they had nicknames for each other. The Yankees. One would call\r\none of them “tenement baby”, depending on where they were from, which was very\r\nforeign to us. And so, we'd call them, one of them, “Junior”. We'd give them a\r\nSouthern nickname and . . .\r\n\r\nBERMAN: “Brother”.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Right. And so, after a while, they, I guess, became Southernized. And it\r\nis funny because a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"lot\n\r\nof them have remained in the South.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What . . . do you have a recollection of . . . were they surprised that\r\nthere were Jews in the South?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes, absolutely. To this day, I think, it's amazing when you go to larger\r\nevents and interact with people, and you tell them you're from Georgia. \"Well,\r\nwhere did you move from?\" I said, \"Nowhere. 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My nephew was bar mitzvahed two years ago in San\r\nFrancisco [California], and in talking with the people in San Francisco, they\r\njust couldn't understand that there would be a Jewish community from the South.\r\nTo talk like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\n\r\ntalk and can say, maybe \"Shalom, y'all\", or something. It's just very foreign to them.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What about within your own home? Was Judaism an important factor? Did\r\nyou have a Sabbath dinner, or did you have . . .?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes. It was funny, my mother was not Jewish, and she never formally\r\nconverted, but yet she raised three sons who were Jewish. Probably considered\r\nherself ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish,\n\r\nand religion was very important, growing up. We had to go to services, no ifs,\r\nands, or buts. We went to religious school, no ifs, ands, or buts. And believe\r\nme, we tried getting out of that, but that was \"no\". We had growing up, very\r\ngood religious teachers in our religious school. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who,\n\r\nnot only did they teach us about Judaism, but they were able to teach us that\r\nevery day you may be challenged about your beliefs, and how you can respond to\r\nit. To this day, I can thank my friend Leo Licht, his mother was a religious\r\nschool teacher. Abe Goldner, Mr. Ruderman, and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they\n\r\nall grew up . . . Well, like, Mr. Golderman grew up in New York [New York] and\r\nwent to Stuyvesant High School. He relayed about some incidents growing up,\r\nwhere he was discriminated against and came to the South, and it was much\r\nbetter. But he could relay that to us and how he would have to fight sometimes\r\nbecause he was Jewish and, we never had to. But yet he ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was\n\r\nable to tell us that it's not easy sometimes being Jewish, but it was never that\r\nway for us growing up.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: I think that Northerners in general have a hard time believing that.\r\n\r\nSTERN: That's true. They don't. I mean, I can . . . they don't believe it, and .\r\n. . when I tell them . . . if there's a funeral service here of a Jewish person,\r\nthere's just as many non-Jews or more, than there are Jewish people here. That's\r\njust the way it's always ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"been.\n\r\nBERMAN: Can you describe Passover Seder at your home?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes. My mother, again [was] non-Jewish. Passover Seder was always big in\r\nour house, not only for our family, but we would invite other members that may\r\nor may not have family here, to our house. It was always a big event, and that\r\neven carried on now with my wife, who is not ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish.\n\r\nShe took that from my mother, and Passovers are always, seders are still a\r\npretty big event in our house. The synagogue, our temple, used to have community\r\nseders, but Mama always thought it should be in the house, and we didn't go to\r\nthe community seders a lot. Unless it was on, maybe not the first night of\r\nPassover, might have been on the second night, but ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"growing\n\r\nup, seders were always in the home.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Who did the cooking?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Mama. She was a good cook. She made the best matzo ball soup.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Who taught her?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Mama was always one to say, if you could give her a recipe, she could do\r\nit. Mama, in religious school, made hamantash. Growing up methodist . . . you\r\nknow . . . But she was able to get a recipe and a design. Daddy used to tease\r\nher, says, \"Oh, you're the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"hamantashen\n\r\n queen.\"\r\n\r\nBERMAN: That's great. Is the synagogue still important to you and your family?\r\n\r\nSTERN: It is. It very much is. I had . . . growing up, in my generation, the\r\nrabbi when I was growing up . . . bar and bar mitzvah was not important, at that\r\ntime, confirmation ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was.\n\r\nIf you wanted to be a bar and bat mitzvahed, you usually had to go to\r\nTallahassee [Florida]. Well, as things evolved within Reform movement, bar and\r\nbar mitzvahs became important. My daughter wanted to be bat mitzvahed, and it\r\nwas important. My rabbi now is, he very much is in . . . you know, wants to do\r\nit. Her decision, she was bat mitzvahed. My son, just this year, bar mitzvahed.\r\nSo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"yes,\n\r\nthe synagogue's important. I served as a trustee, years ago, [I was] very young,\r\nreally, even before I was married. But since I became married, and run the\r\nbusiness, and had my children growing. I have not been able to serve within that\r\ncapacity again, I think they're waiting on me, but . . .\r\n\r\nBERMAN: I think they are, too.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes, the religious school is . . . the synagogue is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"important\n\r\nto me. Religious school, of course, is important because of my children.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Everybody we have talked to thus far, all of them older than you, are\r\nvery concerned about both the changes in the Albany community in general, and\r\nalso the future of the synagogue. Can you address that a little bit?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes. I mean . . . you can see the photograph that I gave to you of my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"dad's\n\r\n. . .\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Now, if you want to hold that up so we can . . .\r\n\r\nSTERN: In my dad's confirmation class in 1942. One, two, three, four, five, six,\r\nseven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, twelve children. In my daughter's age\r\ngroup, three. It was my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"daughter,\n\r\nmy niece, my younger brother's daughter, and Davidson Goldsmith. So, I mean,\r\nit's a numbers event. Then also, out of my confirmation class of five, I'm the\r\nonly one that lives here. You've got to have something to have the younger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"generation\n\r\ndecide they want to stay and move back. Plus, a lot of my parents’ generation,\r\nwithin the Jewish community, owned shops and things of that nature. Well, the\r\nwhole economic environment has changed, where the small shops were family owned,\r\nare really no more. 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Where\r\nyears ago, there would have been, you know 20.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What are the ones that are still left?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I mean, it's just a numbers thing, and you've got to have something that\r\nattracts the younger groups back.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: They [older interviewees in Albany] were concerned because a lot of them\r\nsaid there are families here, younger ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"families,\n\r\nand they cannot, for the life of them, understand why they are not more\r\ninterested. Why they don't come to the to the events. Why they don't come to\r\nparticipate. I think it's . . . every single one of them expressed that angst\r\nthat they can't get the younger families to get real involved in synagogue life.\r\n\r\nSTERN: If I had the answer, I'd be a millionaire. I don't. I mean, it is\r\nfrustrating ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"because\n\r\nin my opinion, [if] you're Jewish, you should affiliate. Now, does that mean you\r\njoin? Again, that might be it, I think you should, but at least affiliate. Maybe\r\nmore than twice a year. It's funny because in my profession, I'm in touch with\r\nreligious leaders from . . . 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So\r\neven if you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"gear\n\r\nsomething, you’ve got to have a cost-benefit analysis. Is it beneficial to hire\r\na person to come in for . . .? Now, this year, our youth group has gotten back\r\ninto formation, and there's a person that's doing it and my children, or at\r\nleast my son is involved and he's enjoying it. It's a family member, Alison\r\nLargeman, that's involved with it. Volunteering because her son ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"is\n\r\n[in the youth group]. Yes, it would be wonderful to get Jews to affiliate, but\r\nlike I said, if we had that formula, we would all be wealthy, wouldn't we? Maybe\r\nit's a thing in the South, where there's not as much confrontation that they . .\r\n. it's a positive and it may be a negative that, without some confrontation, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what\n\r\nsets us apart? Sometimes it's good maybe to have some confrontation, so that you\r\nsay, \"well, hey, maybe I need to affiliate here\" for, lack of a better term, an identity.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Do your children still go to public school or are they in a private school?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Private school, now?\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Why did you make that decision?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I don't want my children's education to be part of a social ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"experiment.\n\r\nI want my children educated, and the option for me is private school. That was .\r\n. . it was hard, now my daddy was a firm believer in public education. I think\r\nthat I got a very good education in the public school system here, but ideals\r\nand ideas have changed. Again, this is a personal idea of mine, and personal\r\nreflection, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that\n\r\nsometimes I don't think education is the most important thing that's being\r\nadministered in the public school system in Dougherty County [Georgia] today.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Do you think that's because of the people who are running both city\r\ngovernment and county government today?\r\n\r\nSTERN: That, state, and national as well. The primary purpose of a school system\r\nis to educate your children. No ifs, ands, or buts. 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I'm not sure if I want ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"somebody\n\r\nthat I don't know, teaching my children social skills and values. That's not the\r\nteacher's job. The teacher's job is to educate my children, reading, writing,\r\narithmetic, geography. Don't teach my children social skills or don't attempt to\r\ntry. That's my job. I was taught in the public school system, there's a dignity\r\nfor everyone. You didn't have to have a special day, or a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"special\n\r\nmonth to teach about what's important in life. It was done every day, by your\r\nteachers, by your coaches, by everybody. It wasn't just a one month or a one-day\r\nevent. You were able to discipline in the school system that you cannot do now.\r\nIf you don't have discipline, that social fabric falls apart. I don't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"say\n\r\nwe were in fear of teachers and coaches, but you respected them. And I don't\r\nthink that's evident today. Where my children go to school now, I think there is\r\na level of respect. Even if not, they don't stay there long. But those are just,\r\nagain, some of my views from growing up in public school and what I see now.\r\nNow, a lot of it may be ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"perception,\n\r\nbut yet from what I see and what I hear, I don't think I'm far off base.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What about your own social life? Is it, I know there's several country\r\nclubs here in in the area. Is that where you do most of the socializing?\r\n\r\nSTERN: No, most of our socializing is at home, and our friends’ homes.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Because I notice there's not a lot of restaurants.\r\n\r\nSTERN: No, and that's another thing that's changed. It ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used\n\r\nto be, within the Jewish community here, there were restaurant owners. The days\r\nnow it's very hard to compete as an individual restaurant, compete with the\r\nOutback's, the Long Horn's, the chain restaurants. You know, you hate to see\r\nthat, but that's just part of society. Again, Jewish families have always, a lot\r\nof them, have been in the restaurant business and it is ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"affected.\n\r\nThat, and retail, even within the legal community, a lot of times your young\r\nattorneys out of [law] school don't want to go to a small town to practice.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: We noticed also, because we're staying in the downtown area, all the\r\nempty storefronts. Do you think that there is any hope for that area to be revitalized?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes, if they listen to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people,\n\r\nand there are models to follow. Chattanooga, [has a] vibrant downtown. I'm\r\nassuming you're staying at the river, Hilton Garden. They've done some work\r\nthere with the aquarium, the riverfront area. But there are things that can be\r\ndone if our city leaders have the will to do it. What could ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"vitalize\n\r\ndowntown? An entertainment district would do it. Albany has always had a vibrant\r\nentertainment . . . there are a lot of bands that began here. All venues,\r\nwhether rock, to country, to bluegrass, to soul. Ray Stevens is from Albany. Ray\r\nCharles is from Albany. Luke Bryan is from Leesburg. And if you have a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"venue\n\r\nlike clubs, with open containers where you can walk from . . . and I think\r\nAlbany would . . . Is it going to be a retail center downtown? No. But could it\r\nbe an entertainment district? Yes. Yes. So there are things that could be done.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: What do you see as the future of both the Jewish community and of Albany\r\nin general?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, in the near ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"term,\n\r\nI think it's a “let's survive” mentality. At first, let's keep what we have, but\r\nthen ultimately you want to grow. What's going to grow Albany? Our medical\r\ncommunity here, that's one thing that can grow our community. We have, of\r\ncourse, our Marine base here. Albany has always been a military town. At one ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"time\n\r\nwe had the Marine base, and we also had Turner Air Force Base here, which was a\r\nsight. We had B-52s stationed here in Albany, and then that base became a naval\r\nair station. So, I mean, we've always had a military presence here, and I hope\r\nwe could continue. What's really growing, I think, in Albany now is education.\r\nAnd by that, I mean Albany State University, Darton College now with an ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"enrollment\n\r\nover 5000 students, Albany Technical School. So, there are a lot of students in\r\ntown, and if there's a way to maybe continue that growth and make it flourish.\r\nIt's going to take some dynamic leadership that I hope we get. Right now, near\r\nterm, I don't think we have it. I just hope we have some far-sighted people that\r\ncan have a vision and then act ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on\n\r\nthat vision. Within the religious community, it all depends on growth. We have\r\nto have something that brings people to Albany. The medical community's one,\r\neducation, I don't think you're going to get the vibrant retail that you had\r\njust because of your Walmart’s and things like that. Professions, maybe we can\r\nget attorneys ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"back.\n\r\nThere are reasons to come here, good reasons. You just have to give people a way\r\nto make a living.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Right.\r\n\r\nSTERN: One thing Albany has that that I think is a strategic asset, is our\r\nwater. They're fighting in Atlanta over water. We got it here. And I think\r\nindustry will see . . . I mean, Procter Gamble is here probably because of\r\nwater. 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I'm going to give you one more opportunity, now\r\nthat you've had some time, to give us ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"an\n\r\nanecdote or two. And I think that Jane wants to ask you a question. I hope it'll\r\nget picked up on the on the tape. Why don't you go ahead and do that while he's\r\nstill thinking?\r\n\r\nLEAVY: Okay. Well, I was just wondering, David, everyone we've spoken to has\r\ntalked about how religious tolerance and racial and ethnic tolerance is\r\ndifferent, was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"different\n\r\nin Albany than other places in the South. And I just wondered if you had a\r\nthought about why? What made this community more open to respect for difference,\r\nthan other places of a similar size?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, I guess maybe from my perspective, maybe I'm younger than some of\r\nthe people you've spoken to, so they may ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"have\n\r\na little more of the history. But I think going back, Albany was very much a\r\nfrontier town when it was settled. So as people moved here and were able to get\r\na foothold, it was . . . it's everybody is . . . I mean it took a lot of\r\ndifferent people to get this community going, and a lot of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigrants\n\r\nin . . . Albany was founded by a Connecticut Yankee, you know, Nelson Tift. But\r\nyet, Albany . . . [there was] terrible malaria here. I think it was maybe that\r\nfrontier mentality and spirit, that if you came here and you put your shoulder\r\nto the grindstone, and were able to settle and eke out . . . everybody was in\r\nthe same ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"boat.\n\r\nYet as you flourished, it was such a small community that everybody was in the\r\nsame boat. We all had the same obstacles to overcome. And when you could\r\novercome them, you shared in that success. And if you didn't, everybody shared\r\nthe failure. So, I think it might have been that kind of pioneer spirit that\r\nwhen you were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jewish,\n\r\nyou might have attended service on Friday night. But the rest of the time you\r\nwere working with everybody else. Now, that's just a personal thing with me. The\r\nsame thing with the black community here. I mean there was segregation and it\r\nwas awful, but yet you still had the same problems to overcome. And it took\r\neverybody working to overcome ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"those\n\r\nproblems. Swamps were drained, malaria was overcome, [an] education system was\r\nset up, a hospital began the medical community. I'm a member of the Albany\r\nKiwanis Club, and for years the oldest project in Kiwanis International, over\r\nthe world, was the Kiwanis Clinic here in Albany, Georgia, that treated children\r\nwho didn't have means for their ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"parents\n\r\nto pay for doctors. Up until just a few years ago, that clinic was operated by\r\ndoctors who saw all children of all races and . . . So, it was this almost a\r\npioneer spirit that Albany had. Whether you were Catholic or Jewish or\r\nProtestant, everybody, it took everybody to kind of eke out a living here.\r\nThat's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just\n\r\nme guessing, but you know, what would bring my great grandfather here in 1904,\r\nother than this frontier mentality that said, every other city around us, you\r\ncan't buy or sale liquor, but you could in Albany.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did he distill too?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, we don't know. Legally, we don't know.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"he,\n\r\nhow long was the saloon in business for? Until Prohibition?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, we don't know that either. I'm assuming that legally it probably\r\nstopped during prohibition. But did it continue? I don't know.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Where was the Rialto?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Rialto was down on Pine Street, was the original. And then that . . . and\r\nit was run by my great grandfather and his two sons. Raymond ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and\n\r\nHenry Charles, who everybody knew here is Uncle Geechie, who was Joe Marks' father.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: And then, it's not still standing, is it?\r\n\r\nSTERN: No, no. My great-grandfather died in 1959 at age 95, and then his son,\r\nUncle Geechie, continued it on a location on Slappey Drive. He died in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1969,\n\r\nand I'm assuming that it closed about that time.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Okay. I have one final question that I have to ask somebody before I\r\nleave this time. Who is Slappey Drive named for?\r\n\r\nSTERN: The Slappey family. They owned Slappey Dairies here.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: I just had to know. I knew it had to be a family, because it's such a\r\nbig street.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Yes. Dr. John Inman, a prominent ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"OB-GYN\n\r\ndoctor here who delivered me, his mother was Eloise Slappey. So that was the family.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Slappey Drive.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Slappey Drive.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Well, have you thought of a story?\r\n\r\nSTERN: Well, there was one I can remember my dad and uncle talking about years\r\nago. They always said there was a lady that told them that, they said, \"Charles,\r\nwhen I die, y'all, you're just going to have to push me to the cemetery.\" And\r\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"story\n\r\nwas when they left the church, going to the cemetery, the engine in the hearse\r\nquit. So, the car behind them, the family car, actually had to push the hearse\r\nto the cemetery. That was a true story that was funny. Lord, I'm trying to think.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: That's okay, that was good. That was a good note to end on. But before I\r\nend, do you have anything else that we might have missed that you'd like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to\n\r\nreflect on?\r\n\r\nSTERN: I really don't, I guess at my son's bar mitzvah . . . In the front, I had\r\nkind of the history that our family came here in 1904, and had been worshiping\r\nat the synagogue for, let's see, 107 years now, and it's still going ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/119","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on.\n\r\nEvery congregation may have its ups and downs, but I think ours is maybe hitting\r\na low spot and maybe on the rise.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: I hope so. I really do hope so.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Like I said, just looking at the pictures there, when you have that\r\nnumber of kids and now you have three, it's a numbers game. You have to have\r\nsomething to attract, my kids back, or other kids ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"down\n\r\n here.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Yep. I hope it happens. I do.\r\n\r\nSTERN: I do too.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: Thank you very much. This was a lot of fun.\r\n\r\nSTERN: Oh, you're welcome.\r\n\r\nBERMAN: This was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/transcript/59435/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"great.\n\r","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/122","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe University of Georgia is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Athens, Georgia. Chartered in 1785, it is one of the oldest public universities in the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/123","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBachelor in Business Administration\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/124","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eGupton-Jones College of Funeral Service is a non-profit corporation offering post-high school education to men and women interested in funeral service as a career.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/125","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMortuary science is the study of deceased bodies through mortuary work. The term is most often applied to a college curriculum in the United States that prepares a student for a career as a mortician or funeral director.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/126","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Marks Stern (1926-1981) was a resident of Albany, Georgia who was born in Demopolis, Alabama. He was co-owner, with Walter R. “Bob” Kimbrell and his brother Eric Julius “Buck” Stern, of Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors in Albany and a Dougherty County Coroner. 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Her served in the United States Navy during World War II.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eKimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors is a funeral home in Albany, Georgia that began as the William H. Wilder and Son Undertakers in 1880. The name was changed in 1906 to L. Vannucci Company and to Albany Undertaking Company in 1914. In 1950, the company was sold to brothers Eric Julius “Buck” Stern and Charles Marks Stern, and Walter Robert “Bob” Kimbrell, when the name of the funeral home was changed to Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors. In 1990, ownership was transferred to longtime employees David M. Stern (son of Charles Marks Stern), R. L. 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The Confederacy, often called the “South,” grew to include 11 states, and although they claimed 13 states and additional western territories, the Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by a foreign country. The states that did not declare secession were known as the “Union” or the “North.” The war had its origin in the issue of slavery. 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He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many United States’ cities. 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Between 1955 and 1968, acts of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience produced crisis situations between activists and government authorities. Noted legislative achievements during this phase of the Civil Rights Movement were passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Immigration and Nationality Services Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/144","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eLiturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group. 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Some communities hold seder on both the first two nights of Passover. The seder incorporates prayers, candle lighting, and traditional foods symbolizing the slavery of the Jews and the exodus from Egypt. It is one of the most colorful and joyous occasions in Jewish life.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/149","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eStuyvesant High School was established as an all-boys school in the East Village of Manhattan in 1904. At the time of its opening, the school consisted of 155 students and 12 teachers. 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Unlike the traditional seders held on the first two nights of Passover, it is held during the intermediate days, which are called Chol Hamoed or Hol ha-Moed, and are less strictly observed than the two days at the beginning and end of the eight-day holiday.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332#t=0.0,0.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/108167/file/209332/annotation_set/1163/annotation/151","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMatzo balls are dumplings made from matzo meal, an Ashkenazi custom. The balls are dropped into chicken soup or boiling water. 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