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I speak with my dad about his experiences going to Italy as a kid and about the family we have there. We also discuss our upcoming trip this summer.

Every year near July 3rd Alice Sager shares her daughter’s birth story with her. Her daughter Kathy, approaching 55, asked Alice to share the story via StoryCorps interview. Alice also shares about her current experience in the COVID-19 pandemic and...

I interviewed my Nonna, who is my grandmother, on November 25, 2017. I learned about her daily life in Italy, the changes she went through living in the United States, and how she got to where she is today. I...

I interviewed my father, Steve Lupis, who told me the story of how our family came to America, how my grandparents met, a bit about his childhood, and the stories of my and my sister’s births.

December 1988, Teresa Jeffry and sister, Gina Eshleman took the train down to Sicily in hope to find long lost cousins.

One Small Step partners Vanessa Schoon Smith (45) and Heather Brownlie (50) discuss the assumptions people make about them, political extremism drowning out moderatism, social media encouraging divisiveness, and their hopes for the future.

A Thanksgiving Interview with my grandmother, Janet Hellgren, in 2021. Discussed Italian heritage, her Columbian foreign exchange trip, and her love of family.

John Friedrich (56) talks with his friend Bob Alpern (92) talks about two trips to Europe to protest the deployment of U.S. missiles in Europe, including a three day block of the Mutlangen Air Force Base in southern Germany. There,...

Peter Campisi (91) speaks with his son Peter Campisi (43) sharing stories of his life growing up in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, his service in the military, his love of the Trumpet, and his family history going back to...

Steve Russo and Leslie Russo Yates interview their Uncle Len Russo about family life in the years following his parent’s emigration to Cleveland, Ohio from Longi Sicily.

Michael DiSalvo, 45, eldest son of Frank DiSalvo, 73, interviews his father about fatherhood and his advice for Michael's children.

This is an interview of Josephine Wilhelmi, grandmother to Marta Schneider where she recalls some of her childhood, teen, and young adult/parent memories.

Matthew Selden (27) and Tom Lazio (76) discuss his Italian immigrant heritage, various experiences in public service, and the past, present, and future of Ottumwa, Iowa.

Married couple Joseph Galante (77) and Patricia Galante (73) reminisce their childhoods in Italy, and how they met in America.

In this interview, conducted on November 24, 2017, Emily Lynott (14) and her grandmother Joan Laracuente (74) talk about early life and friendships in New York, occupations of herself, her parents, and her husband, and memories from her childhood and...

We discussed our family history and traditions

Kaye discusses how the 1908 earthquake in Messina, Italy changes her mom’s life;how her parents meet; and the joy that overcame the sadness of her mom’s death at a young age.

This is a story of the experiences of Ron during his time in Sicily and Italy in World War II.

Bob Alpern talks of locking eyes with a woman with blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes, at a talk he delivered at the Unitarian Universalist fellowship in Santa Rosa, California,That led to McCarolyn joining Bob in Washington, DC, with an...

In this interview, I asked my aunt about her experiences with family members that I did not have the pleasure of meeting. We discussed stories and characteristics they all had and what they carried on to the later generation.

Interview with Jim Dell'Aira on his 90th birthday - July 4, 2020, discussing his parents and childhood in New York City.

Giuseppe Camarda describes his journey from Italy to the US and his life in the US after immigrating.

This is a story of the experiences of Ron during his time as a young man in the US Army during World War II.

Joseph Camarda was born in 1933 in Fascist Italy and recaps his experience there.

Steve Desroches (47) and Bill Clark (69) talk about their respective global travels.