Barbara J. McGeary
1932 -
Interview Length: 53 minutes
Interview Date: May 13, 2009
Interview Location: WHBG Channel 20, 223 Walnut Street, Harrisburg, PA
Barbara McGeary has been a positive force in Harrisburg's educational and arts communities. She and husband Clyde moved to Harrisburg in 1964 for his job with the Department of Education. With her own kids in school, Barbara started teaching art in the Harrisburg School District. Opposition to desegregation left a school building empty, which set the stage for Barbara's energy and ideas to fuel an arts program. It began with fifth and sixth graders, but blossomed into the Harrisburg Arts Magnet School in 1980. Barbara's life is a love story of art in Harrisburg and throughout Central Pennsylvania.
24 Stories (See Ordered Story Set)
- Barbara McGeary, states her name for the record
- Barbara McGeary talks about where she was born and why she moved to Harrisburg.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her childhood.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her education.
- Barbara McGeary describes the communities she taught in.
- Barbara McGeary talks about the school district televison studio.
- Barbara Mcgeary talks about flight to the suburbs.
- Barbara McGeary talks about Capitol Area School for the Arts.
- Barbara McGeary talks about the struggle for arts education support.
- Barbara McGeary describes some of her former students.
- Barbara McGeary becomes Supervisor of Arts.
- Barbara McGeary describes her community work.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her husband, Clyde McGeary.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her children.
- Barbara McGeary remembers life in 1964.
- Barbara McGeary recalls memories of the Susquehanna River.
- Barbara McGeary talks about the floods.
- Barbara McGeary describes the mural she created and public art.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her own art.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her current activities in the arts community.
- Barbara McGeary talks about her strongest memory of Harrisburg.
- Barbara McGeary talks about the Harrisburg School District.
- Barbara McGeary describes the community school concept.
- Barbara McGeary talks about the March of Dimes.
