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A brief summary of my Dad’s life and thoughts

Creating Community Through Sharing Stories: A conversation with Alina Lopez, a hardworking Puerto Rican mom born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, where she shares her life story highlighting her strong culture and family memories.

Carol McLernon [no age given] was interviewed by Jim McLernon (55) about early Wisconsinites.

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Oxford, Mississippi, Vanessa interviews her friend Shiela about her childhood and growing up in oxford. Shiela shares what school she went to, how many siblings she had, and how she wouldn’t choose...

"If it's hard, you have to try harder." Not only was Patrick Buonfiglio (or Mr. B as he is affectionately called by his students), a willing and happy student in Saugerties, but he was an avid and active participant in...

Interviewing my mom

Arriving in Saugerties as a single parent with 3 kids in the 70's, Joan Reinmuth found herself in unknown territory with 2 acres of land and a house with no insulation. Supported by a community, she developed the philosophy of...

Melvin Taylor (49) asks his associate Doris Green about her career as an ethnomusicologist, her creation of Greenotation (an integrated score of percussive music and dance notation), and the time she spent traveling in Africa to learn more about the...

In this interview conducted in November, 2001 in Gurney, Illinois, Fiona Green (16) interviews her Aunt Patti (N/A) about Fiona when she was younger and Patti's experience with work. Though there isn't much too it, they had fun and laughed...

The life and struggles of the african american people in Mississippi and the hero’s that are often not talked about in these cities and the impacts they had on the occupants of those towns lives and influence on them to...