Interview with my Mom, Emily McKinney.

This was my first StoryCorps interview. I sat down with my mom as we were celebrating Thanksgiving in 2015. I had just celebrated my 36 birthday. I love my mom and this is a great memory for us both!

“What trait do you see in yourself that you passed down to me?”

My brother and my mom have been very close, and they talked to each other a lot more often and more easily than I talked to my mom. My brother has moved out and with that my mom and I...

My grandpa’s story about living through the depression and overcoming hardships.

In this interview, conducted on November 30, 2017, in Arab, Alabama, Adrianne Smith (16) interviews her grandfather James Hendrix (81) about what life was like in 1930s Fayette, Alabama. He talks about how he lived through the depression and how...

John Coleman

In this interview, I talked with my dad, John Coleman. We recalled memories from his childhood and conversed about family.

Questions for Papa

This is an interview i made with my grandpa on Thanksgiving, November 28, 2019. We talked about his military life and some things about his childhood and family life.

StoryCorps Interview with My Sister
December 7, 2022 App Interview

interviewer name: Mary Gilmore interviewer age: 20 interviewer and participant relationship: sisters topics discussed: family, friends, the future

Papa and Arielle

My Papa talks about how our family immigrated from Guyana to America. He talks about his childhood in Guyana, and transitioning to the United States as an adult.

Interview with Grandmother
November 29, 2017 App Interview

Barbara Watson was born in 1952 in Kansas and moved to Alabama. Her father served in The Korean War and was a computer programmer after that. Her mother was a nurse. She moved to Washington in the late 1950s and...