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Stories of how our family came to be

In this interview we talked about family, marriage, and happiness. We discussed why family is important and what our hopes are for one another.

Elizabeth shares with Julie about her early experiences with The Mount, how she began volunteering and her continued relationship there.

[Recorded: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023] Stephanie (68) and Sarah (19) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Stephanie is a retired nurse and research coordinator from Charlottesville and Sarah is a Second Year at the University of Virginia...

Warren Crawford describes how he met his future wife, Helen Whitehead, while visiting a friend at Crawford W. Long Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. He also describes their honeymoon, a person stealing his wallet within their new home one evening and...

Therese and Kurt tell how they met 34 years ago and how they both became math teachers and the importance of the Christian faith and family.

My girlfriend, Aimee, interviews me about my thoughts on Death, Dying, and Loss. Reflections on subjects discussed throughout the semester in SOCI4122.

Shari Manchester: 2022-05-07 01:37:37 I (Shari Manchester, 21) have an interview with my sister (Holly Manchester, 22) about her Covid infections, how it has affected our lives, and what our lives would have looked like had Covid never happened.

Julia (22) interviews Jonathan (83) about his experiences through life. They touch upon Jonathan's personal experiences growing up in the U.K., creating a family in the U.S., and more.

Margaret documented some details about her family McCord and Pryzmocki) as well as her husband’s family ( O’Connell)

Diane (76) is asked about her childhood and family, as well as the people who affected her life the most. She reflects on her own and her son's weddings, as well as her daughter-in-law. Diane answers why she wanted to...

[Recorded: Thursday, September 14, 2023] Natalie Hogan (19) from Fairfax, VA, and Shannon Henley (19) from Fairfax, VA participated in this One Small Step conversation as part of their Public Service Pathways 1-credit UNST course at UVA. Shannon shares her...

Lizzie Hessek (31) and Veronica Fischmann (32) - best friends since ages 11 and 12 - talk about their current lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Veronica is back living in her childhood home, Lizzie is living alone for the first...

[Recorded: Friday, September 2nd, 2022] Lillian (20) and Donna (68) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lillian is a Third Year student at the University of Virginia studying public policy, leadership, and religious studies. Donna is the...

Father Frank DeSiano calls himself a "lifer." He entered the Paulist junior seminary as a teenager. That was more than 45 years ago. He's a noted leader in evangelization or sharing of the Catholic faith. Father Frank has been the...

Walter talks about his wife, daughter and mother.

Jackie is 99 years young and still full of life.

Natasha Berrio (16) interviews her father Hugo Berrio (57) on November 28, 2021 in Egg Harbor Township New Jersey, about his experience growing up and living in Colombia for the first half of his life and then moving to the...

My second recording session with my grandparents, Bob and Sally Klein, discussing their youth, meeting each other, falling in love, their marriage, and starting/raising their family.

In the midst of the pandemic my family has been blessed with new life. I spoke with my Aunt Jewel about the experience of becoming a great-grandma during the outbreak. I thought I knew my aunt pretty well but this...

I interview my nana to ask her a few questions about her life and how she grew up.

Richard Shannon(82) talks with his granddaughter, Erin Shannon(16) about what life was like living in the country in the 1940's nad 50's. He talks about going to school in a small country schoolhouse without power, to which he rode horse...

Doris talks about her incident. life with her friends and how she went to the casino once on Christmas. She also talks about her children. She even talks about ditching school!!

Poet Molly Peacock (73) talks with her husband, Michael Groden (73), a James Joyce scholar, about their sixty-year love story that was interrupted for twenty years. They talk about ongoing love, Mike's melanoma, the novel Ulysses, and the parallel lives...

Jo shares about the beautiful relationship she has with her daughter Kaylea who died in a tragic accident six years ago.