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On November 22, 2017 in La Grange Park, Illinois, Declan Joseph Hynes (13) interviewed Barbara Ann Potucek. Throughout the interview Declan talked to Barbara about her life through her childhood, teenage years, work, marriage, kids and grandkids. Her life was...

Grandma talking about her experience in the 50’s and 60’s with racism

Chris Brookes (73) interviews her friend Peter Baker (57) about growing up in Chicago and coming to Lake Ivanhoe, a Black community in southeastern Wisconsin. Peter relates the history of the community from its founding in 1926 up to the...

My mom and I are close but in this interview I learned so much more. I learned how she thought of me just besides her interactions with me. Her life she has now makes up for what she wished for...

An interview with Lisa Weatherly about growing up and the expectations for women.

Family interview of matriarch

Hattie Soil ponders her faith and the Civil Rights movement from Mount Pleasant, Mississippi to Memphis, Tennessee; Chicago, Illinois to Las Vegas Nevada.

Michael Silver and Karen Morris-Cetin discussed the 1960's in Milwaukee, Madison and Chicag: 2020-09-10 15:10:37

My mother talked about her life and her childhood. After asking her personal questions about her past, she began to shed tears remembering what she lived through to give us everything. Towards the end of the interview, Both of my...

Daughter sits down with mom to talk about life before coming to the U.S.

Nicholas Piediscalzi, a retired United Church of Christ minister, talks to us about his personal experience and relationship to peace, as well as his work in peace-making in larger settings. As a minister in Chicago in the 1940s and 1950’s...

An interview with my darling mother, Angela Cartagena.

Today I interviewed Mrs. Hornstra. She is my schools front office person, she has always been so sweet to me and I remember always coming to ask her for help with something and she’d be there to help me. She...

I interviewed my mother on January 23,2022. Questions were based around her life and friends.

My mother discusses about what she loves about nature and gardening.The interview consists of questions for her to explain why she enjoys it.

In this interview, I, Annelise Schirmer, and my mother, Renée Schirmer, explore her experiences through the Cold War, Vietnam War, and Civil Rights Movements in the north. She describes her involvement with the rock and hippie groups, contributing to counterculture...

Elie interviews her mom about her childhood, her honest opinions of her family, and her hopes for the future.

Talking to my mom from college a month in

An evening interview with grandmother, Belinda Lane, on November 26, 2017. Inside her Chicago home where her granddaughter came to visit! Ms. Lane tells stories about her life when young and older. She also shares how her events and adventures...