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Friends and fellow retired educators Barbara Dinan (82) and Nina Ruskey (70) talk about their friendship, families, careers, and legacies.

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.

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.

Harriet Weber (65) interviews her friend, Pete Romano (72), about Quincy Farm Chemicals, his family's fertilizer business, as well as about his crop sign project.

My Nonna grew up in a small town called Sicily worked most her life. My papa grew up in Argentina which is a big town and started working from a small age.

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.

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

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

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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...

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

John Friedrich (55) interviews his friend Bob Alpern (92) about his participation in a protest against a U.S. missiles in Stuttgart, Germany, together with German Green Party leader Petra Kelly and novelist Gunter Grass, as part of his life's work...

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

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.

We discussed our family history and traditions

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

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

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.

We talked about Nanna’s family and how she missed Nanno a lot