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Chuck Niswonger (who I am named after) recalls his life growing up in the 30's and inlisting in the Navy for World War 2. He met my great grandmother when he was 26 and she was 19. They are 7...

In this interview we explore my families history with my mother who grew up in Santa Ana in the seventies. She shares details into our family’s past some of the jobs that they did and how she a mexican woman...

I talk to my mom about my great grandfather.

So my dad decided to hop a train near UC Davis. This is an interview of him talking about his experience

My mom, Christina, describes the time she shared with her grandmother when taking the train to New Mexico.

My grandfather William Joseph Jesse and his history of working on the trains in Chicago, IL

My mother Beverly recounts her visit from Chicago to Arkansas in 1944 when she was 4 years old.

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...

We talked about train hopping

This interview was recorded at Friendship village in Kalamazoo mi