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Colleagues Blair Bates (66) and Nelson Nave (75) talk about their work in historic preservation, Blair working as a restoration contractor and Nelson as an architect, to maintain the Ladies’ Library Association building in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Memories of Lena Mae & Granddaddy

We talked about the importance of life and important people in Suzanne’s life.

Sitting on our front porch in Birmingham, MI

Barbara Hester Kurtz (87) talks with her granddaughter Susan Scott Peterson (38) about her memories of World War II, being a teenager in a military family, living on an army base and her relationship with her father.

As the world transitions away from cheap energy much of the physical and social infrastructure that is relied on will no longer exist, just by the fact that the resources to maintain a system this complex won't exist. This being...

In part 1 of this interview, my grandma and I talk about how it was growing up in the great depression and how she had to adjust. We also talk about how it was parenting 6 different kids in many...

My grandmother and I talked about her life and how she got to where she is today and reflected back on it.

Hao interviewed Colleen about the climate crisis and resource descent experienced in recent years and ways of coping that can be used to deal with those issues.

Stories from Jennifer Abramczyk’s work family at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital

my mother talks about her life in the past and her life currently.

Interview questions of the life and career of Dr. Lalonde

Growing up with the intervener, and advice for young students

Kiplyn Primus (62) talks with her friend Curtis Mack (81) about his life and his education.

In this Interview taken by Aunvi on May 7th 2018 we learn about how her father lived as a child. We hear about what he did in his childhood. We also learn about how he came to the US, and...

We’re talking about connection, curiosity and life lessons from someone who knows how to create a life well-lived. Julie (Miller, Brown) Kohlhaas, originally from Blissfield, Michigan is interviewed by her niece Audra Labert in May of 2021.

Steve Desroches (47) talks to Todd Alsup (44) about his work as a musician, specifically as a piano man in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Julia LeRoy (41) interviews her mother, Michelle Lawrence (69), about her family's history and her life growing up in Detroit in the 1960s.

Talking with my longtime family friend Sue Rogers (Ms. Sue) about life and growing up black in Jim Crowe Mississippi.

Today I interview the most important person in my life, Rapheal, aka my dad. Throughout the interview he tells me about how he became the wise, hard-working dad he is today and where he gets all his information. We also...

Karim Abdullah (70) speaks with friend and colleague Phillip Hill (59) about his life growing up in Memphis and his family's history. Karim discusses the independent Black community of Mound Bayou, his experience as a student in a segregated school,...

In this interview, recorded in November 2018 in Flint, Michigan, A’miya Betts (15) interviewing her grandpa Kimmie Montgomery (59). She asked her grandpa many questions about his life and what his values were. He shares many stories about his childhood...

Fredrick Mitchell was born into a time of gray mists and steady rain. At the age of 5 living in Biloxi Mississippi, things started to get seized from him. First the rights of school were taken from him, then his...

This interview is of my dad; Patrick Freeney and my mom; Amy Freeney. In Flint, Michigan on November 27th. This interview shows the hardships my parents had to face while growing up. My dad had to work a lot of...

On Nov. 30th, 2017 in Flint MI, Jamie (53) answers questions from Tessa (15) about her past and how it affects her now. Jamie is the mother of Tessa, who listens and learns about the things she did growing up...