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When I interviewed Elaine Kyle, we talked about her childhood and how different it was than how it was today. She talked about her parents and how she grew up. She also contexted that it she remembered the days of...

This thanksgiving I got to sit down with my dad, Bret Reiner, and talk about his life and even his future. We didn't have the chance to see our extended family this year due to covid, but getting to have...

Seto You, age 92/93 or 97/98, is interviewed by his son, Ed You, age 26, about his early days in the USA. He arrived from China in 1916, worked as a cook in this country well into his 80's. He...

In this interview, Jason Toledo discussed his family and significant life events.

I sit down with my mom a couple days after Thanksgiving to talk about her experience of being in nursing school and parenting four kids at the same time. As we discuss some reminiscing occurs and I learn more about...

In this interview, Isabelle Papa talks to her dad, Joe Papa, about his childhood and his experience with growing up with four sisters. He shares both happy and sad memories, but says that overall he was lucky to have such...

I asked my grandma about her childhood.

"And he did have beautiful auburn hair" Recorded in December 2017: Granddaughter Aislinn (25) asks her grandparents, Pat and Owen Wright (both 84), about their decision to adopt five children between the 1960-70s.

Dawa Dolkar interviews Reese about his life at home and what he enjoys to do.

I sat down with my father, David Landis, to talk about his decisions to pursue theology after becoming a physician and the role of ethics in his everyday pediatric practice.

I had an interview with my dad, some pretty great stories were told :)

Chicago public employee give her insights.

Sean Carlock asked his Grandma Myrna Olsen about her childhood and her life

I simply ask my dad a few questions as we go down memory lane.

My grandmother and I talked about her story and her acceptance of Jesus Christ as her savior. Growing up she never really was religious however she had an experience where she started to believe in Jesus Christ. Her religion means...

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

In this interview, done on November 27th,2016 in Flint,Michigan, Brittani Bridgett(15) and Mary(68)&Mike(68) Williams discuss their marriage,childhood,their own children and family stories while laughter and tears were shared between us three. While we were conversing,traveling for work and the holidays...

Career, personal life, and experiences

In this interview conducted in July 23,2020 in Oxford, Pennsylvania, Arlyn Mileydy Ayala-Estrada interviewed her family friend Connie Mota about her childhood and they’re friendship. Connie Mota shares how she’s known Arlyn since a little girl and used to babysit...

My grandmother is one of the most important people in my life. I’ve always been close to her since she watched me whenever my parents needed as a child. In this interview, she speaks about her parents, children, grandchildren, and...

Lynn shares with Sarah her experience of going to the 1965 Presidential Inauguration, of attending Northwestern in Chicago in 1965-1969 during the campus uprisings, and recognizing the importance of living in diverse places with water roots.

Sister Gladia Bell (89), Lue Hicks (78), and Willie B. Kennedy (88) talk about their childhood memories, their wonderful parents and their life growing up in the South

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...

A short questioning session with my mother about general topics.

My mom, Maureen, talks about her life and how it influenced her parenting, current ideals, and hopes for my future.