The field trip to Baybrook, last Saturday, was very interesting. It helped me to better visualize the image of Baybrook and understand the reasons to support the project’s fundraiser for Filbert Street Garden. I enjoyed Filbert Street Garden’s tour by Jason Reed. I liked the methods of using the garden to support the community itself such as school children learning about gardening and teaching the adults as well. Later, I glimpsed where Fairfield-Bethlehem shipyards. This was helpful since it is my research assignment. The shipyards were used in World War II to build Liberty ships. At the end of the war the ships were stripped apart for metal then sunk in the Baltimore Harbor which polluted the water. This caused a problem which continues to today.

                                

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The oral history readings were fascinating and an important part to understanding Baybrook’s past. I can see how much effort is involved with oral histories and building stories to tell the audience about Baybrook. Catherine Leocadie Benicewicz’s oral history was a good one since she was lived and grew up in Curtis Bay. She provided the stories telling how Baybrook was in the past.  

For the research assignment, Katie has kindly given me some information about Fairfield-Bethlehem shipyards from her own research to start my own. The Fairfield-Bethlehem shipyards are certainty full of rich history. It was a vital part of World War II and Baltimore’s past that is slowly fading and being forgotten. I will continue to work on it. I plan to gather more information from the library, internet, and newspapers especially Baltimore Sun.  http://ghostsofbaltimore.org/2013/10/16/great-photo-bethlehem-fairfield-shipyards-1941/