Oral history interview with Kathleen McKenna.

Interview conducted for Voices from the Catholic Worker. Kathleen McKenna discusses her experiences with Haley House in Boston, Mass., and Noonday Farm in Winchendon Springs, Mass. She explains what drew her to the Catholic Worker, obtaining and purchasing the house, the Haley House name, and why it...

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Main Author: McKenna, Kathleen, Catholic Worker
Other Authors: Troester, Rosalie Riegle
Format: Cassette Audio Book
Language:English
Created: 1988.
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100 1 |a McKenna, Kathleen,  |c Catholic Worker. 
245 1 0 |a Oral history interview with Kathleen McKenna. 
260 |c 1988. 
300 |a 3 sound cassettes (179 min.) :  |b analog +  |e transcript (78 leaves) 
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520 |a Interview conducted for Voices from the Catholic Worker. Kathleen McKenna discusses her experiences with Haley House in Boston, Mass., and Noonday Farm in Winchendon Springs, Mass. She explains what drew her to the Catholic Worker, obtaining and purchasing the house, the Haley House name, and why it is a men-only shelter. She talks about opening other houses and the farm, the types of guests they have and how that has changed over time, life at the house, and managing the upkeep on multiple houses. She speaks about the work her husband, John, does for and outside the Catholic Worker, the committee and board structure of the house, and how Haley House has or has not strayed from Catholic Worker principles. McKenna also discusses her civil disobedience stance and meeting Dorothy Day. Interviewed by Rosalie Riegle Troester. Interruptions in audio present in original recording. Order of transcript narrative varies from audio recording. Due to the condition of the first tape of the original recording, brief sections of the transcript and audio were lost. 
518 |a Recorded on June 9, 1988 in Boston, Mass. 
590 |a Dorothy Day - Catholic Worker Collection, Series 9.1. 
506 |a Open to all users. 
599 |a MUA_DD-CW_00384. 
599 |a CLIR. 
599 |a CRRA. 
600 1 0 |a McKenna, Kathleen,  |c Catholic Worker  |v Interviews. 
600 1 0 |a Day, Dorothy,  |d 1897-1980. 
610 2 0 |a Haley House (Boston, Mass.) 
610 2 0 |a Noonday Farm (Winchendon Springs, Mass.) 
650 0 |a Catholic Worker Movement. 
650 0 |a Communal living  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Urban poor  |x Housing  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Poverty. 
650 0 |a Nonviolence  |x Moral and ethical aspects. 
655 0 |a Oral histories. 
700 1 |a Troester, Rosalie Riegle. 
730 0 |a Voices from the catholic Worker.