The "Out of Kenilworth" Oral History Project that I directed about the Elmer and Fannie Lapp family, the Kenilworth neighborhood, and the Fellowship Haven Church is now archived in the oral history collection of the Washingtoniana Room at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Public Library in downtown Washington, DC.  The collection includes thirty interviews with members of the Lapp family and the larger Fellowship Haven and Kenilworth community, with a few more interviews to be added as they become available.  Each interview is fully transcribed, and the archived transcripts as well as the tapes are fully open to the public for viewing/listening and for historical research.

Viewing is usually by appointment.  To make an appointment to view the collection, call the Washingtoniana Room at 202-727-1213 and tell them you wish to come in and use the "Out of Kenilworth" oral history collection archived by Joe Lapp.

If you access the collection I would love to know; please email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

An interviewee list and an introduction to this collection are available under the "Kenilworth Project" page of this website.