Welcome Project

“Marine Corps was a decision based on my desire to want to provide for my family.” Part 3 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana. ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an oral history interview with Mayor Jerome Prince of Gary, Indiana ~ Part 2 of 4 Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an oral history interview with Mayor Jerome Prince of Gary, Indiana ~ Part 1 of 4 Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“Pierogies are the Eastern European version of empanadas, you know?” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school.” ~ a Welcome Project story in partnership with StoryCorps ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission i...

“You can make positives out of situations and we did that as an all-black school in an all-black community.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“They put a spirit of justice in me.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“With athletes, it was just a whole different kind of bonding.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"I fled Gary also, but it wasn’t entirely because of fear, it had nothing to do with anyone’s skin color…" ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I will call some agents out there and see what’s available, but I want to let you know what times we’re living in.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“You kind of adjusted… we didn’t like it. We just, we kind of adjusted.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“I would have been so normal if I grew up anywhere else.“ ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"I wanted to [write] a book where people would say, 'Oh, man, I loved that book, I want to go see where it took place...'" ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Produced by Rich Elliot Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"We used to say this was 'up South,' and, you know, the other places were 'down South.'" ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“History is a pattern of life… something that happened then and is continuing now or has an effect on what’s happening now.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“It was a lonely life. But there were woods and creeks and meadows and places where you can just sit on a hill under a tree and let the sun shine on you…” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Produced by Rich Elliott

“It was the dirtiest place in the mill. But I guess they made a decent salary. So he encouraged my father to leave Florida and move to Gary.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“We had a village out there in Small Farms.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“We saw the writing on the wall, we knew it was coming.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Produced by Rich Elliott.

“I got to watch that. This was big for me. It was something that I just dearly loved…” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app. Produced by Rich Elliott.

“I wouldn’t want to live any other place.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

"It was love at first sight." ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“We are located right in the middle of Gary, Indiana for a reason.” ~ a Welcome Project Flight Paths story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.

“Most people of color… don’t see the value in staying.” ~ a Welcome Project story ~ Find more at welcomeproject.valpo.edu or listen to our weekly podcast by searching for Welcome Project on your favorite app.