The Great Listen 8th grade Language Arts Luke Thelen
November 26, 2017 App Interview

I interviewed my grandma Dona Zimmerman in order to learn more about her early life and what she was like growing up.

Hannah McGiverin and her grandmother Jeri talk about her life

Jeri has worked a lot of different jobs, and has very interesting family, most of which are hailing from Denmark.

Conversation with Corinne

Corinne (23) discusses her most special and most difficult memories, as well as her relationship with her mother

Family time with the Weinsteins

Highlights/memories of our lives including moving to the U.S., 9/11, and growing up in a multi-generational household.

Family Is Everything

“I don’t care what people think, I will do anything and everything for my children.” On December 21, 2018, Daisy Salinas talked about her experience of leaving her home in El Salvador to come to the United States. She explains...

PART 4 Gina, Shay, and Rahni: A conversation with a war veteran, a single mother, and her daughters and the effects of Social Injustice.

Gina Howard (44), in part one of a four-part series of a conversation with Shay Ware 25-year-old daughter, and Rahni Patnett, 20-year-old daughter about life before, during, and after the military and how the social injustices have affected our lives...

San Francisco Native

This is a conversation between Freeman and his father John, recorded in Los Angeles on a visit from San Francisco.

Recording – 11-18-2023 16:37:04

Olive Tellegen interviews Elisabeth Tellegen (Her mom), Kate Cusato (Aunt), and Matt Prinkey (Uncle). Despite Elisabeth being adopted and not meeting her siblings until she was 21, they have been very close for decades and share crazy (slightly dirty) stories...

From Colorado to LA

My name is Grace Schiff, I am 14 years old, and I interviewed my aunt, Melissa Malone, in Encino, California. She grew up in Colorado, but moved to Los Angeles because of her love for acting. In this interview she...

Stop Iran

“I would see stop signs and below the word stop it would say Iran”. On 1/6/19, in Los Angeles, Ani Adell interviewed her mom, Megan Adell, about her leaving her home in Iran and coming to America, and how being...

So…you want to go first?

We stumble through a slew of questions. It’s a thing.

Depression Leads to War

Addison K. Groff, a retired minister who was born in 1919 in Rochester, NY, but spent most of his adolescence in Boonsboro, Maryland, is interviewed by his grandson, Edwin Groff on November 25, 2017. He lived through some of the...

Uni own soccer coach

Mr p a former uni coach talks about how life is for him. He talks about his personal life

Merideth Wieland and Anita "June" Jeung

Merideth Wieland (54) talked with her Auntie June (Anita Jeung) (96) about June's childhood and family (Chong), including Merideth's father Wilbur Chong. June takes them out at the end with a song.

So Wrong, but So Right

Long before texts, emails, and snapchat, if you wanted to talk to someone you either had to write a letter, or use the phone, and not a cell phone. Jake Freedman interviewed his grandfather Saul Freedman about his mid-high school...

Interview with My Dad!

I interviewed my dad, Frank Pittman. We discussed a range of things. We began by talking about his earliest childhood memories and his most vivid memories. Then, my question about his greatest accomplishment led to a familial discussion, most notably,...

The Grief of Losing an Idol

On November 27th, 2017, Charlie Ruderman interviewed his mother Catherine Smith to learn about her childhood and what it was like to lose a loved one. Throughout the interview, Catherine describes her childhood in the 1970’s San Fernando Valley. This...

Grandmothers life

Today I will be having an interview and taking a look inside my grandmothers life