“I cannot even begin to tell you how exciting it was to be here…”
Frances “Bitsie” Clark on Urban Renewal
Frances “Bitsie” Clark came to New Haven in 1956 from Vassar College. In the late 1950s, she worked for the Girl Scouts, and soon became involved in the New Haven arts community. She remembers how the projects going on throughout the city created an extraordinary sense of possibility, and inspired her and others in their own efforts to create the Audubon Arts District. In Clark’s view, urban renewal energized New Haven.
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Interviewed by Thomas Dolan on November 18, 2003.