Red Brick Houses

Here's a conversation with my 92 year-old neighbor Liza about how our neighborhood has changed since 1959, with "Mack the Knife" played on ukelele by fellow neighbor Tom Bassett.

2012 / Carol Spindel / TCF, USA

Here's a conversation with my 92 year-old neighbor Liza about how our neighborhood has changed since 1959, with "Mack the Knife" played on ukelele by fellow neighbor Tom Bassett.

Red Brick Houses was produced by Carol Spindel for the 2012 ShortDocs Challenge.


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Carol Spindel

Carol Spindel is a writer in Urbana, Illinois who has written books, essays, and commentaries for NPR. In 2010 one of her commentaries for WILL/Illinois Public Media won a PRNDI for "Best Writing."


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