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In this interview, I spoke with my father about his early life, marriage, military service, and an overall retrospective of his life in general.

Ezzeldean talks about his family and the troubles they went through while growing up in Egypt while realizing after many years of different jobs, he wanted to be a writer.

I asked him about what is childhood was like and about the army. He also told me about some of him getting hurt when he was a kid and having to work at a butcher shop at the age of...

Heather shares stories of growing up in the historic Philadelphia neighborhood, Tacony, and shares stories of her childhood and upbringing and then her eventual opening of her business in Mt. Airy, Philaelphia. Recorded as part of an artist residency with...

Mac Frazier shares his memories of the day, and how he was affected by those events.

Steve Desroches (47) and Darrin Shaffer (53) talk about international exchange and in particular the year of high school Shaffer spent in Denmark.

I sat down with my uncle Pete and we talked about what it was like to grow up in a small town in the 1950s. He talked about his sister and what she was like as a teenager. He talkes...

The interview consisted of me learning a lot about my grandma that I didn’t know before.

This conversation focused on the impact of religion on his life. As well as how his past has shaped his present and future.

91-year-old Betty Foreman describes her childhood growing up on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania and shares her long history of owning some quite adventurous “Sewanee Dogs.”

My mother, Joyce Hollobaugh, discusses how her life experiences competing in volleyball and softball and her career in respiratory therapy has made her the person she is today. As she discusses her experiences, my mother describes all the important life...

I interviewed my grandmother about her life growing up and her parents as well as my dad, her son.

I interviewed my grandfather about his time serving in the U.S. Navy and about his heritage during the Great Depression.

This interview was conducted on Kathryn Nicholas in order to learn more about the 1980’s.

In this interview with Grandad (Alan Braverman) and I (Megan Braverman) talks about a favorite story and Grandad's favorite job.

A short interview between me and my grandmother about her past and the future of our family.

I interviewed my father, Alex, about his experience as a child being bilingual. We also discussed the importance of knowing more than one language.

Once a week, usually Mondays, my mother has her cleaning lady, Cheryl, come and clean her house. On those Mondays when Cheryl is scheduled to be there, we usually exchange a friendly hello and smile, she continues cleaning and I...

Mia Owusu-Anwti (16) interviews her grandmother Eileen Harrison Sanchez (74) to compare school integration, civil rights protests, and the impact of Covid-19.

We talked about family and personal history.

This is an interview between my grandmother Lauretta Alberti and myself. The questions were compiled by the extended family and the interview occurred during a family reunion over the 2015 Thanksgiving weekend.

This interview was conducted with my mother, Vanessa Steckel, in which I asked her about her childhood, work life, and about me. This interview was heartfelt and it told me more about my mother that I may not have known...

This is my next door neighbor Jeanne Grab. In this recording she talks about her life in Pennsylvania and the ways of marriage and her experience.

We talk about my moms life and interests, getting closer to each other

Steven Rauscher (33) and Brandon Thrash discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Philadelphia's service and hospitality industry, with a special focus on how the value of service and hospitality in America needs to be redefined and reframed moving...