Community Voices: Postville Project Oral Histories
Genre
Oral History
Interview Description
Judy Egeland and her family moved to Postville in 1970 and she has witnessed much of the change that has occurred in rural Postville over the last nearly 50 years. Judy has had many careers including working as a nurse and LPN, drywaller, painter and wallpapering, and had a gardening business. Judy is a master gardener and was central to bringing a community garden to Postville through her role at the time of this interview as the Vice President of the Diversity Council. Judy also helped with the school garden that was able to bring in FoodCorps volunteers. The community garden serves to bring together people from all walks of life and cultures. As Judy notes in the interview, “Everybody speaks the same language when you are in the garden.”
Interview Number
04
Interview Date
10-15-2014
File Format
audio/mp3
Disciplines
Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration | United States History
Project Title
Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project
Project Description
The Community Voices: Postville Oral History Project sought to capture the remembered past of those who experienced the “Postville story,” that is, the social context leading up to, including, and following the ICE immigration raid that occurred on May 12th, 2008. The Interviews available here showcase the unique memories of 16 interviewees living and working in or near Postville. The interviews will leave listeners with a sense of how a small town in rural Iowa has dealt with and continues to deal with vast demographic change and the aftermath of an ICE raid that threw Postville into the national conversation on immigration reform.
Publisher
Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
©2014 The Postville Project
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Egeland, Judy, "Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project Recording with Judy Egeland" (2014). Community Voices: Postville Project Oral Histories. 16.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/postville_oralhistory/16
Project Title
Community Voices: The Postville Oral History Project
Project Description
The Community Voices: Postville Oral History Project sought to capture the remembered past of those who experienced the “Postville story,” that is, the social context leading up to, including, and following the ICE immigration raid that occurred on May 12th, 2008. The Interviews available here showcase the unique memories of 16 interviewees living and working in or near Postville. The interviews will leave listeners with a sense of how a small town in rural Iowa has dealt with and continues to deal with vast demographic change and the aftermath of an ICE raid that threw Postville into the national conversation on immigration reform.
Comments
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Interview Conducted by RaeAnn Swanson-Evans
Interview Transcribed by RaeAnn Swanson-Evans