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My great grandmother talks about her life in the 30s and 40s

My dad discusses his childhood and adolescence 1931-1949

Great Depression/Recession Interview

About family ancestry, growing up during the depression, and life learned lessons.

“I do attempt to be a good person 24-7.” In this interview, recorded on January 2nd, 2019, Piers Pozil (14) interviewed Johnny Simpson (75) in Aspen, Colorado, and asked him how his past experiences shaped him to make him who...

Growing up in the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Oklahoma.

Matthew Dallas Groenewold was 8 years old when the stock market crashed on “Black Tuesday”, October 29,1929. This is part of his story of growing up during the Great Depression in rural Kingfisher, Oklahoma on his family’s farm and how...

An interview with someone about their time during the Great Recession.

Lucille Wilhoit passed away on September 3, 2016. I remembered I'd recorded two interviews with her for the National Day of Listening in November of 2010. She talks in this interview about the importance of music to her, and how...

McKenna Cole interviews great grandmother over life.

I talk with my dad about his childhood, his regrets and what he’s greatful for, his relationship with my mom, and his grandparents.

I ask my grandma questions about her life on Thanksgiving (2019).

It was a lengthy video in which I even learned things about myself, but even though the length of the recording was 45 minutes too short it was definitely not ill-spent in my opinion!

Gilda Bennett talks about her childhood in the 40s and 50s in rural PA. She was part of a local band, played the marimba, and had a pet goat!

Being Italian and living during the Great Depression

Growing up Chicago during the great depression, world war 2, and the Korean War.

History of Technology in IBM, Irish Catholic movement in high schools on the north East side of Chicago. History of club Alabam burying the Great Depression. (Pictured: Marcella Benett 1928)

Talking to my Great Grandmother about her life, her family, and some random little things.

I learned about my grandmas past life, her values, and the things in life she still remembers. It was great to talk with someone with so much experience in life and has been through so much to give me all...

Grace and Isabel(16) interview their grandmother about her father’s family, immigration, and experiences in America, and our Grandfather talks about about his family too.

Gioia Fischetti interviewed her Great Grandma Anna Albini who was born in 1925.

In this interview, conducted in November, 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama, Mary Katharine Smyth (17) interviews her great grandmother, Esther Boggs. Esther talks about growing up during the Great Depression. She explains how her mother's untimely death effected her family. She...

A stunning loook at what life was like growing up in the countryside during the 1950s

I interviewed my Nana, Carole Stroessner, about her experience with her childhood, first marriage, divorce, career, and assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Sue Schlough talks about growing up in the Depression, working in Nagasaki 10 years after the end of WWII, her faith, sexual assault, and politics.