O’Connor Great Listen Assignment (part II)

My grandma and I talked about her childhood, her family, and about politics.

World War II remembered

Neal remembers World War II and his return to Vivier, Belgium

Interview with Great-Grandpa Price
November 22, 2018 App Interview

We talked about how John Price felt before and after the war. And how he felt flying in his aircraft. For his complete story of being MIA/POW, visit www.purpleheartaustin.org/price.htm

Couch-talk 7/24/20

A casual conversation with my Grandmother Ruth Braun (a Depression Era kid) on the couch in her + husband Bruno’s home in rural Clare, MI. during a family gathering.

Grandpa and me.

We talked about my great grandfather and about my grandpa's childhood.

The Great Thanksgiving Listen Mawmaw Murl 2017

Mawmaws is 92. I just let her talk about her life. She is amazing!

Caroline Whitcomb talks with her grandmother, Connie Gilmer

In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Birmingham, Alabama, Caroline Whitcomb (17) interviews her grandmother Connie Gilmer about growing up in Birmingham. Connie shares her stories on living through the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. She also...

Ba-chan Interview Pt. 1

My grandmother recounts a life spent between America and Japan, a childhood behind barbed wire, an adulthood of hard work and love. She describes herself as normal, but her story is anything but.

Interviewing my Grandma
January 30, 2020 App Interview

Interviewing my wonderful Grandma, Joanne Pearson. I ask her about what it was like to grow up during World War II and what it was like to become a mother.

Interviewing my uncle Ted

He was mostly talking about his childhood and his mother and father

The Truths of Bertille Terri Schantz

I interviewed my biggest role model and mother, Terri Schantz. Terri grew up in democratic rural Iowa with a politically active and very republican mother and a father who was a world war 2 veteran. She learned and abided by...

A Little Piece of History

A grandparent’s penpal in England during WWII and the generations of family that have kept in touch. And a junior high social studies teacher that instilled life lessons like how to take notes, public speaking skills, and to travel the...

Interview with Charles D. Carpenter, Jr.
November 25, 2018 App Interview

An interview with Charles D. Carpenter, my grandfather, who was born in 1943 and raised in Michigan, Tennessee.

Carole Robins and World War II

The story of a child during World War II in Chicago, IL.

Thanksgiving Listen with Tatum and Kathleen Nyhuis

In this interview I, Tatum talk with my grandma about everything from her scholarships to college to her experience having breast cancer as a young mother.

History of Paul Krout

Paul Krout talks about his childhood, experiences in the National Guard, and various jobs he had.

Jillian Interviewing her Grandfather

In this interview I asked my grandfather important questions about his life, and how he experienced it. Through this I have learned to savor each and every aspect of life and I learned how my grandfather saw life and how...