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Nathan Buck, Providence Volunteer Program Supervisor, has an in-depth conversation with Therese Lewandowski, about his spiritual journey from being a midwest, gay alter boy in a Catholic school to an openly gay, happily married manager for a Catholic organization. Nathan...

Robert Danziger (66 years old) 2022-01-20 16:19:56 Richard H. Junge (84 ears old) friends talk about Homak, move to America, factory work, days as Vice President of Manufacturing, family

Priscilla Cortez (18) and Amy Gudino (18) speak on spirituality and its role in Amy's life, living during a pandemic, Black Lives Matter, and hopes for the future.

My dad is not a very opened person and I decided to choose him because I would like for him to open up me about his life and what it was like for him growing up.

Jane Lecrone(73) talks with her grandson Jake Lecrone(17) and his classmate Sebastian Trajanov(17)

Laura Otto Phillips, age 60, has a conversation with her mother, Betty Otto, age 94. Betty chats about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, rationing coupons in WWII, meeting & marrying a US Coast Guard officer Larry Otto....

Peter Singh (16) talks with his grandmother, Mercedes Luz (70) about her childhood and growing up in the Philippines. Mercedes discusses her time in Iran during the Iran Iraq war as a nurse in a military hospital. She traveled across...

This is a interview of my grandmother Stacy Smith about her life, and and our families heritage.

Chicago Public Schools World Studies teacher Eric Carlson interviews rising 10th grader Javian Jones on the last day of school : 2021-06-22 18:18:04

The life and times of a wonderful, Greek Yaya.

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...

My Great Aunt Mary tells stories. Growing up on a farm in Illinois during the Great Depression; Nursing School/ Nurse Cadet Corp; Joseph Feldner’s (brother) wrestling achievements. April 2017.

Michael Silver and Karen Morris-Cetin discussed the 1960's in Milwaukee, Madison and Chicag: 2020-09-10 15:10:37

James Del Balso: 2020-09-10 14:29:15

Covering topics from family to teaching at a CPS school.

My mom talks about her running career and her love for Boston

Life of my mother growing up as a kid and meeting friends who meant alot to her as a child. My mother growing up into a mature young adult who met my father at a young age. Also telling stories...

Pari and Emily sat down to discuss why Pari's family left India when she was young, what their experience was like as immigrants in the US and how things have been for them throughout the past twenty years. The interview...

Sandy and Lenny Spiegel tell about their determination to pursue higher education despite socio-economic challenges. A surprising union - Sandy, a social worker and Lenny, a physicist - met each other in Chicago in the late 1980s and followed their...

Veronica shares her story, from running away from an abusive mother and relying on a cruel man to finding help and working toward a nursing degree.

I talked to my Nani and she told me about her struggles as a child with losing her father, brother and mother. She went with her siblings at the age of 18 to live with her uncle. Shortly after, she...

Paulist Father Marcos Zamora joined the U.S. Navy to see the world. In many ways, he'd already experienced a lot of world culture--he grew up in a multiethnic community in Chicago and he'd studied ancient cultures en route to becoming...

Harper Schaberg(16) talks with Norma Schaberg(92) about her parents and how she was raised. She talks about what she wish she did different, how unsupervised life was, and growing up in the West side of Chicago.

Guy Guilbert shares his experiences growing up in Old Town, meeting Old Town School's founder when he was in a musical duo with Win's daughter, performing with Old Town School student Roger McGuinn in Chicago and leaving high school to...

A conversation with senior Wendy Tedrowe about her time at Whitney Young.