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An 8 minute interview with my favorite person.

Chris Brookes (73) interviews her friend Peter Baker (57) about growing up in Chicago and coming to Lake Ivanhoe, a Black community in southeastern Wisconsin. Peter relates the history of the community from its founding in 1926 up to the...

Clover Leopold, daughter, interviews Michael Leopold, father, about his experiences and memories from his time in New York.

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This is an interview with my dad

Interview of Ann Kruss early life

We talked about parents and history and cousins.

We talked about my life as a kid, and what my mother’s life was like. We also talked about times in both of our lives where we had been the most in trouble and when our parents were the most...

A story told by a grandpa about his up bringing and his perseverance to tackling the real world asked by his granddaughter. His passion for education and success reflects off of his aspirations and struggles.

In this interview we talked about my dad’s childhood, college days, his career, and about the life lessons that he has learned over his life.

I talked to my dad a month into my freshmen year at college over zoom

Some things that were talked about were childhood memories, adventures, achievements, obstacles in life that we have overcome.

We talked about Michael’s important memories and the lessons and wisdom he has gained from those. We also talked about the influential people in his lives and how they helped shaped who he is today.

We talked about deep conversations on what we mean to each other and what other close people in our lives mean to us.

I interviewed my grandpa William Parks. He is originally from Kansas and was a public defender in Chicago, IL. He also joined the military. We discussed his life and impact on the world and also talked about his love, the...

In this interview, I sat down and chatted with my grandfather who is on my fathers side. In addition to that, we talked about how he grew up as a child in North Carolina and Chicago, his time in the...

In this interview, conducted in December 2019 in South Barrington, Illinois, Raj Patel (16) interviews his grandfather Prabhudas Patel (70) about his childhood from living in a poor village in Western India and to discuss how he immigrated to America....

Interviewing my boyfriend on his life growing up and events that shaped him into being a great person. What it was like living in Chicago’s suburbs. How childhood can shape a person.

Me and my dad talked about some of his childhood memories and relation with his parents.

On my opinion my father had a betted childhood than we. Because they had a lot of more funny and interesting acitivity, games. Today’s children will no longer have such a childhood as their parents had in their childhood.

In this interview, recorded November 23, 2016 in Urbana, Illinois, I, Jack Larson age 16, talk to my Grandpa, Carl S Larson age 84, about his life and experiences. Born in 1934, he attended University of Illinois and became a...

Liam Gebert (17) and Susan Snyder (54) talk about their heritage, christmas and family. Susan talks of her fathers effect of her life, her hobbies and job today. She talks of how the great depression effected her father. And how...

November 25 2018 in Chicago IL I Interviewed Mary Thomas about her life. Mary Thomas is 61 Years old and this my grandma I am 15 years old. Mary had a good childhood she grown to be an intelligent women....

We talked about how he started his career, older family members, and favorite holidays.

My dad was basically just talking about his best memories in his life. Many things he also talked about were his accomplishments and school too.