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This interview explores the memories of a women who lived in the 1970's and the events that shaped the present day.

In this discussion between a mother and daughter, Christina and Elizabeth Perez discuss the facets of Elizabeth’s life that have shaped her into who she is today. Beginning with her multiple moves as a child and her various exposure to...

He answers questions about his childhood and life that give insight into how things were 50-60 years ago.

Interviewing Mrs. Bossler about the 80s.

My sister is named after grandma. She is just like her. She remembers her teaching and prayers

My grandmother lived in Vietnam until 1975. She grew up in Hue, where she lived in a convent from ages 12-17.

Susan Meyers, born in 1952, was a young girl and teenager during the most active portion of the Second-Wave feminist movement of the 1960s & 1970s. In the interview, she talks about the positive impacts that the movement had on...

When Helen (my mom) was young, she horned in a poor village, there are 7 members in her family, so it is hard For them to support their life. Her father was a farmer, one time he used a winter...

Some of our dad’s greatest stories from his youth.

One Small Step conversation partners Alex Kramer (37) and Len Heath (44) discuss their upbringing, going to see the AIDS quilt and former Presidential candidate John McCain.

Sarah shares how she became involved and eventually led one of the most meaningful HIV and AIDS services organizations in Laguna Beach and Orange County

Jack Godby (77) speaks with God's Love We Deliver Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Ronnie Fortunato. Jack was diagnosed with HIV in 1985 and began receiving meals from God's Love in 2002, after having three strokes. Ronnie became his RDN in 2011,...

In Flushing, New York, a hardworking father, George Dakis, and his 14-year-old daughter, Christina Dakis, converse about his life in a Greek-American household. They talk about his inspiring life and the hardships he went through to become the man he...

In this interview, I, Annelise Schirmer, and my mother, Renée Schirmer, explore her experiences through the Cold War, Vietnam War, and Civil Rights Movements in the north. She describes her involvement with the rock and hippie groups, contributing to counterculture...

Jason Loper (43) and his friend Amy Short (43) reflect on their many years of friendship and remember when they came out to each other twenty-five years ago.

Mary Rosewater (49) talks with her son, Jacob Rosewater (17) about her childhood memories of the bicentennial, and how this event contrasted with the anxiety of the rest of the 1970s

I weave my life into the greater story of 1934 to the present, the Great Depression, rural America, the child games we played, while man I would marry fire bombed Tokyo,the second world war, repression of the 1950s,west coast jitters...

Ripley Hotch, 77, puts his perspective on what has changed and what has remained in the LGBTQ "community" over the past 50 years by sharing anecdotes from growing up as a member of the “Lucky Few” gay generation. These include...

In 1981, I saw a young gay man with big lymph glands..it was the start of GRID/AIDS.

Interview with my Dad about the 1970’s pop culture and life.

Gerry Rebach and Joetta Jacobsen met in 1976 and have been best friends for 40 years. They have 40 more to go.

Two Quakers reflect on the role of the AIDS crisis in their spiritual community.

91 year old Monnie talks about her life of activism and how she was inspired by her parents who part of the suffrage movement.

British journalist, Brian Scott-Smith talks with Doctor Anthony Fauci about HIV/AIDS turning 40 in 2021 and how it impacts those living and aging with the disease. The interview was recorded for the news podcast - Connecticut East This Week and...