Ellen Rogovin Hart, '66 (BardCorps)
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Interviewee Role
Alumni/ae/x
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Class Year
1966
Academic Program
Biology
Interviewer
Paul Margolis '76
Description
Ellen Rogovin Hart, '66, reflects on the political atmosphere at Bard and off-campus (including her father being declared a communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee) in the sixties. She also touches on the reasons she decided to attend Bard College and the folk music scene around Bard's campus.
Keywords
David Isay, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy Assassination, Anti-War Movement, Stanley Faulkner, Washington, Mark Lane, Justus Rosenberg, SDS, Optical Workers Union, Buffalo, Lower West Side, Syracuse, House Un-American Activities Committee, Anton Refregier, Cuba, Mexico, Appalachia, Zimbabwe, Spain, Civil Rights Movement, Freedom Summer, Folk Music, Bob Dylan, Ward Manor, Reverend Gary Davis, Doc Watson, Mark Lytle, Hampshire
Location
Bertelsmann Campus Center
Interview Date
5-28-2016
Interview Duration
11:53
Recommended Citation
Hart, Ellen Rogovin, "Ellen Rogovin Hart, '66 (BardCorps)" (2016). BardCorps -- All Oral Histories. 45.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/oral_hist/45
Rights Management
The use of any image or audio from the Bard College Archives without permission is prohibited.
Significant Quote
"Well, I remember Bob Dylan coming up a couple of weekends and trying to hit on the young ladies here...also we had...Reverend Gary Davis...I remember going to a concert next to Doc Watson; he was blind and he said 'will you please hold my guitar for me?' And I was so thrilled."