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Dorothy Whitfield Chisholm (98) speaks with her son, Graham Chisholm (62) about her experience joining the British Army at age 18 in 1941, and then transferring over to the US Army in Great Britain in 1942, being wounded by a...

Lifetime of work and nothing to show

This was interview with my mom. I interviewed her on questions based on lessons she has learned and different things in life that has happened to her.

Michelle Bear is a project manager at an architecture firm in Saint Louis. She also works out of offices in Chicago and Toronto and has spent much of her career traveling to places like Pakistan, Mexico, Italy, France, and many...

Sharon Wakamoto, an OC resident for almost 60 years, but born in Los Angeles spent a few years as a young child, during WW2 in the Japanese internment camp or War Relocation Center as it was called, at Gila Bend,...

We discussed Jamie’s transition from living in London to now living in California.

Henry McCoy (59) sits down with his mother-in-law, Margaret Black (85), to ask about her and her sisters' adventures in "show biz."

A chance encounter with Freemasons hall while visiting London in his youth led to a lifelong involvement with Freemasonry. Johnny Royal has had a passion for years about telling the story of Freemasonry and after several years he is now...

Clint McGuire (56) continues his conversation with his former professor and long-time friend Jack Benjamin (71) about Jack's years building and running a theatre department at the University of South Carolina Aiken. This conversation mainly covers the years 2002-2006.

I asked my mom's 1st cousin about her early life, growing up on a farm in western Ireland and later studying, working as a nurse and raising a family in England, and how she came to be living in the...

This interview is about my father moving from the United Kingdom to America and how it changed his life.

Theresa sat with her children Rachel and Joel and talk about Theresa's late cousin Paul who died from COVID-19 in December of 2020. They also discuss the health inequities within the Black and minority communities and did it have an...

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

In this interview, conducted on July 23, 2020 in Waxhaw, North Carolina, Hannah Connolly (19) interviews her cousin Miriam Urban (6) about how the corona virus has impacted her life. She also talks about what life was like before the...

I interviewed my great uncle Robert about WWll

“My grandmother didn’t want to leave, and my mother, very bravely at age 24 went back to Prague and got her mother and her younger sister Mimi out of Prague with great difficulty… on the last train before Hitler marched...

Learning more about my cousin through a series of questions

My friend, Ria Grewel, talks to me about her experiences of moving to the U.S. from London, England and how she and her family had to adapt to American culture and how different the U.S. is from the U.K.

The life and career of Jane Newman, the founder of the discipline of account planning in America and founding partner in ad agency, Merkley Newman Herty in NYC. Jane also founded the Thorntree Project in Kenya which successfully educates Nomadic...

A school project for Tobin Montessori school

Pierrick Dutertre (72) talks with his wife, artist collaborator and business partner, Cathy Dutertre (62) about being working artists, as photographers, mentoring other artists, teaching, serving others through art and their grandchildren.

The interview revealed various details about both my parents' as well as their families' lives. The interview allowed me to learn how my great grandmother was an important woman in Indian History, and how my dad was almost a victim...

Emma Henderson interviews Lauren Sheath on feminism, faith, Michelle Obama and the value of a pun.

Jack Herman, 91, remembered Thanksgiving 1945 as a GI in London.

I interviewed my dad about what life was like when he was growing up in England