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Lucretia McCulley (Richmond, VA) interviewed her mother, Evelyn Loven McCulley Ochs (age 83) on October 2, 2015, about her parents running a boarding house and tourist home in the 1920s and 1930s in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a small mountain...

Growing up in the 1930-40s. Roller skating and family stories.

Dorothy growing up in Scranton, meeting dad, moving to Europe.

Louis Guarinello talks about his life from his childhood in the 1930s, his time in the Navy, and what it was like to live in New York in a recent immigrant Italian family.

A Nana tells her grandson what it was like growing up in the country and city during the Second World War, being Black in segregated America, and other challenges she faced later in life.

This is my first interview of my grandfather, Forrest L. Smith, born September 30th, 1929 in Atlanta, GA. He discusses growing up in the Druid Hills neighborhood and his happiest and saddest moments.

Amanda Sauvie (44) sits down to interview her grandparents in McKinney Texas. Max (91) and Patsy Carpenter (89) share stories of their Southern childhoods in the 1930’s and recall memories of their parents. Patsy recalls her childhood in Warren, Arkansas...

A mother and daughter discuss the legacy of mental illness that is woven throughout their family’s past, present, and future.

I learned she had a rough childhood and her dad wasn’t around often, that the only person who was there for her was her mom.

Betty Jo tells us about her childhood.

“After every air raid we would have to count heads to make sure everyone was okay”. On January 1, 2019, 14 year-old Taylor Huie interviewed her grandmother, Sylvia Huie, about her experience escaping the Japanese-Chinese War in the 1930s when...

Interviewing my mother about specific aspects of raising me throughout my life.

Dante Voss interviews Gerrald Voss about growing up on the farm and transitioning into a war veteran.

Grandma (Ramona) shared what life was like growing up in the 1930's and raising her 5 children in the 1960's & 70's.

A variety of topics, including community, socialization, influential relationships, and family history.

Interview with 92 year old Susan Finney by her 17 year old granddaughter Nicole Finney. Susan Finney is second-generation Sicilian-American.

Talking family and world history with my 91-year-old grandmother who lives in Needham, Mass., and my husband Ashkon.

Leonard Ampe shares childhood memories from small town central Wisconsin in the 1930s

In this Interview conducted on November 26th 2023 in Vestavia Hills Alabama. Eighteen year old Brodie Vicinanzo and his eighty eight year old Great Aunt Rosemary Reid discuss what life was like growing up through ww2 and losing loved ones....

This interview is mainly focused on the childhood and youth of my grandmother, Caroline Carlson. She was born in 1834 and has many good stories to share. She has lived in Evanston, Illinois, New York City, and Canada. *please note...

I never how much my grandfather’s identity as an immigrant affected his whole life. On December 27th 2019 in Sanibel Island, Florida, my grandpa Abel Friedman (83) and I discussed his childhood immigrating from Poland to the US. Abel talked...

My father, Carl Carroll, talks about what life was like growing up on a farm with his grandparents in the 1930s near Brownsburg Virginia.

Marion talks about her life, especially her younger years. A special story about Christmas, stories she would tell me as a kid (about her grandma). Her experiences as a home away from home for West Point Cadets. Grandma was the...

We came to have many photo albums from my grandmother, Lotte Kramer, and her mother, Ella Faller, from the 1910s-1940s. Jean Kramer, my mom, looks at the album and narrates who the people are and family history, including time in...

What was life like a 13-year-old the 1930s?