[The first thing we want you to talk to talk to us about is could you tell us
some of your favorite Woonsocket memories?] Some of my favorite Woonsocket memories?
Okay. As a kid, I remember, one thing that I remember is we used to
have a lot of buses. And, one Christmas we lived in Morin Heights and my
grandmother and I went shopping downtown Mainstreet, and the thing is, we had just
moved there and we forgot we didn't know where the bus stop was, so we ended up
wherever the buses ended and had to call a relative to come and pick us up. And
one of the reasons that that's a memory is because I feel like nowadays the bus
transportation is so limited that if we could, like not long ago, we went to, I think,
it was Pittsfield and they had like vans as buses. So to me that would be like a
thing, you know. And then one of the other memories is like, as still as a kid, was
which would never be allowed today. My mom worked at Woonsocket Spinning right near
the high school, where the high school is now. And on Fridays my brother and I would
walk down there, meet my mother and actually go into the mill where all the
people were spinning and, you know, the noise and everything. So that's the kind
of memories when I think I of Woonsocket, the old Woonsocket, the old Woonsocket.
And then the other one is when I was like 16, 17 and I had got gotten a driver's license and
that's when Woonsocket was still alive Thursday nights on Main Street, and everybody
would go up and down Main Street and it was...that was Woonsocket. Woonsocket was alive.
And I know it's never, it's never gonna be that again. It's never gonna be
that again, but my hope now is that like with the NeighborWorks thing and
collaborative and the city that they make maybe Woonsocket a destination place, maybe.
[Do you want to say anything more about what you like about living here?]
What I like about living here, um, I like the fact that whenever, whenever
help is needed or whenever people come together as a community, and I like the
there's so many different multicultural things but I don't think we take
advantage of it as well as we could, if we, you know, work together and got to know
one another better especially like, like my neighborhood Fairmount, it's like the
United Nations but it seems like, maybe I shouldn't say this but like, maybe some
cultures don't...we should be united America and work together and make Woonsocket better. [Okay.]
[One of the other questions we have is what do you find
challenging about living in Woonsocket?] What I find challenging?
People not willing to really accept new ideas maybe, or you know like, like when we talk say
about bringing Woonsocket alive again, it's more like thinking of the old way
and it's, it's really challenging to get people to focus because there's so many
different organizations helping, and they're all doing the same basic thing,
but if we all work together, we could do better. [Okay.]
And finally, what would you do to change Woonsocket?] What would I do to change Woonsocket?
Maybe try to get people to work more together and like, I would like
to see Woonsocket become a destination place, you know. But I
think one thing we could do is maybe list all the good things, list all the
places that people can go and visit, you know, like the Museum of Work and Culture,
we've got the Stadium and if you looked in the, like I looked in the AAA book
not long ago and the only thing they had in there with Woonsocket was the River
Falls restaurant, you know. You got you got the Museum of Work and
Culture, you got Autumnfest, all that stuff, and we don't sell our own self.
[Yeah] So I'd like to see, I'd like to see us come alive in a different way.
[Okay, very good. Thank you.]
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