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Jaycee Winters

June 27, 2025

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Hudson, NY

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Shannon O'Neill

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Summary:

Jaycee Winters is six years old and lives in Hudson, New York. In her interview, Jaycee describes why the Hudson Youth Center is important to her. She also describes and gives examples of other places where she and other children like to play, including Greenport Park and Oakdale Park. She talks about being a student in kindergarten, her last day of class for the 2025 school year, and she describes her teachers. Jaycee also identifies the interconnectedness of her community in Hudson by describing how families and educators in her community know one another. She shows this, too, by talking about her friends, many of whom have family members that are friends of her mom.

This interview may be of interest to individuals who are interested in early childhood descriptions of life in Hudson. It may also be of interest to individuals who wish to identify places and people in Hudson that are central to childhood development and play.

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Interviewer Bio:
Shannon O'Neill

Shannon O’Neill is an archivist, curator, and public historian. She currently works as the Curator for the Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at NYU Special Collections. She makes ceramics and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner and their cat, Oliver.

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