Mary Rechner and Jessica Rechner
Recorded
June 30, 2023
Archived
June 30, 2023
39:34 minutes
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ddf000640
Description
Sisters Mary Rechner (55) and Jessica Rechner (53) discuss how migration or staying home has influenced their respective lives. They also discuss their artistic careers, starting families and potential regrets.Subject Log / Time Code
Jessica (J) asks Mary (M) about getting and leaving New York. M left for college in PA, then NM and VT, and started a family in OR. She talks about what she learned and how she changed at each place.
M talks about the emotional impact of leaving home, both positive and negative. J shares that she doesn't see herself leaving NY and explores potential regrets in that thinking.
J talks about starting a family and the kind of emotional migration that creates. She talks about having biracial children and how that's changed her thinking.
M talks about her son moving to Louisiana and the mixed emotions of having a child move away, but being ultimately happy for him that he gets to share an experience she had in her youth.
J shares her new artistic expansion away from just singing and into craft-making and how its helped her challenge some notions she's had about creating art.
Participants
- Mary Rechner
- Jessica Rechner