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Jenny Rask: 2020-08-25 Jenny Rask (49), Interviews father Gene Rask (88), about the births of his brothers and their relationship with their father growing up in Butte, Montana. Gene talks about his father's advice to his children, his parenting style...

Listen as my step-father speaks about his life as a teenager, as a child and his current life. He speaks fondly of his grandmother and parents as they always treated him nicely and made him who he is today. We...

Sisters Raja Hayat (66) and Eugenia Scott (65) interview their mother, Fannie B. Martin (88) about her early life in West Virginia, moving to Buffalo and her love of singing.

Jenny Rask: 2020-08-30 20:10:01 Jenny Rask (49) talks with father Gene Rask (88) about his own father's political views and how they developed. His father's personality and education. Advice his father gave him. His father's ambitions and work in Butte,...

Husband and wife Roger Yost (71) and Gail Yost (71) talk about their upbringings, the life they have created together, and their upcoming 52nd anniversary,

My Grandmother’s experiences herding cattle

Nancy interviews her father, John, about growing up on a ranch as a child, being a farmer/rancher, and the flooding of the family ranch.

His childhood, time in the service, and life till now.

Ted Smith details his life growing up on a ranching homestead in Broadus. He talks about his family, ranch, and everything in between.

Jennifer Balian (19) talks with her sister, Alexandria Balian (20), about her experience with livestock and animal husbandry.

Jennifer Richardson Jones interviews her mother, Helen Younger Martin, about growing up in Gilbert, Arkansas, about a mile from the Buffalo River.

Wilma Jean Owens (77) talks with her daughter Melissa Owens (47) about her upbringing in rural Virginia, her mother's lifelong influence on her, and why she is an eternal optimist.

Spouses Suzin Kratina (67) and Michael Hathaway (68) share memories of their upbringings and offer advice to their daughters.

Anna Wasden (58) sits down with her mother, Joan Hunter Christensen (86), to ask about her family's turf accounting business, what it was like growing up in Distington, England during World War II, and the family traditions that differ from...

Carolyn Moore Ford (67) shares a conversation with her nephew, Alexander "Alex" Moore (30), about the history of their family farm, discuss a conservation advancement program, and farming legislation.

Maureen Horsley shares with her husband Joel, memories of winter while growing up on a farm in northwest Iowa during the 1950's.

Kathryn Wooten interviews Dolores Henson, her grandmother, about growing up with a working class family in Glouster, Ohio, where most of her family and ancestry worked in the coal mines. Dolores remembers the two most important people in her life:...

In this interview conducted on January 27th 2019, Natalie (17) and grandpa, Doyle (71) talk about his life growing up poor in a coal mining community in Eastern Pennsylvania and his new life after moving to New Jersey and helping...

Joseph "Joe" Mckay (69) speaks with granddaughter Alexandrea Ground (21) about his life experiences and the importance of passing down values through storytelling.

Ethan Ingram talks with his grandmother, Ann Marie Sorochak, about life in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Along with this, his grandmother provides a look into the lives of immigrants and their children working in industry during the early half of the 20th...

Jenny Rask: 2020-08-24 00:40:22 Jenny Rask Interview 2 with father Gene Rask. Gene remembers growing up in Butte, Montana. He looks back at Butte, Montana as a mining town. How his family resided there and moved to Portland, Oregon for...

Harriet Mantzer (67) talks with her friend, Gail Greener (59) about her time as a hospice nurse, caring for cancer patients, and delivering babies. She shares about being a rancher and the death of her seventeen-year-old daughter.

A brief summary of Calvin Lemly’s farming experience from a young child to retirement involving crops, animals, and wood.

Karen De Shazer (53) interviews local resident Mary Jane Erickson Terraza (82) about growing up in the Mohave area, her ranch and her animals.

Hayley Norton (36) interviews her grandmother, Gramme Alice (87), about her childhood in rural Missouri and her experience raising her three children.