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I am writing to ask you a question / favor. Our Boston Neighborhoods study is culminating with an interview project, where pairs or groups of students will interview people with connections to each neighborhood we have studied (Chinatown, Dudley, Villa Victoria, and Mattapan). They will then write sketches of each community member, and do portraits or a related art project, which we will turn into a multi-media presentation. We hope the oral part of the presentation will be a radio show on WBUR, and the whole project (with students' voices and images) will be on the internet and made into a DVD.

I am wondering if you would be willing to be interviewed about your connections to Chinatown. Students will be involved, over the next month, in creating interview questions for each person they interview. The interviews will be videotaped, to allow students to revisit the interviews to take notes and remember what they learned.

We are scheduling the interviews for Wednesday, April 8th and Thursday, April 9th at the Boston Nature Center. Each interview will probably take 45 minutes. They begin at 10:15 and are scheduled every hour from 10:15 to 2:15.

If there's anyone else you know of that you think would be good to interview, connected to any of the four neighborhoods, I would appreciate it if you could pass on their names and contact information.