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Jackie is 99 years young and still full of life.

Folklife Director Lesley Schierenbeck interviews Olga Kobryn of the National Ukrainian Women's League Branch 98 of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Olga is a part of the arts and culture committee that produces exhibits and conducts workshops among many other projects....

Friends and colleagues Adam Lowy (35) speaks with his friend David Witzerman (61) about starting a non profit called Move for Hunger with his family. They share memories of when they started and also discuss the impact the organization has...

Kimberly Hopkins (63) speaks with her sister, Connie Lint (69), about her time serving as mechanic in the Air Force and a member of the National Guard. Kimberly considers the discrimination she faced as a woman in the military and...

Join Lauren & Rob of Pine Barrens Post as they discuss their homesteading business, the importance of Pinelands traditions, and the ways in which they keep the history and culture alive through their products. Pine Barrens Post holds seasonal workshops...

Kaitlyn Riggs (16) interviewing her Mom, Janine Riggs (45) in her home in EHT,NJ on Novemeber 25th, 2018. They discuss Janine's proudest accomplishments, and what each person accomplished in their life so far. They discuss Janine's inspiration, and her life...

Bob Carstensen (94) shares a conversation with his daughter Robin Randel (68) and grandson Shane Randel (48), about his memories with his family, his experiences in World War II and The Great Depression, and his relationship with his grandchildren and...

Barbara (Bunny) Sims (73) and her husband, Bruce Sims (74), remember Bunny's father and the role he played in World War II while serving in the U.S. Navy. They also discuss their family, their careers, and the places they've lived.

One Small Step conversation partners Caroline Valentine (76) and Peter Werts (35) discuss their backgrounds, political values, and travel.

Laura Otto Phillips, age 60, has a conversation with her mother, Betty Otto, age 94. Betty chats about growing up on the South Side of Chicago, rationing coupons in WWII, meeting & marrying a US Coast Guard officer Larry Otto....

Dr. Rachel Sutz Pienta (49) sits down with her mother, Nora Sutz (71), to discuss their family history, to reminisce about their favorite family memories, and to remember family members who have passed away.

One Small Step partners Peggy Johnson (74) and Pattie Speer (68) discuss the people and events that shaped their political and religious beliefs.

Jackie Neale interviews her undergraduate photography student, Maria Trajtenberg while we are conducting interviews and taking photographs for our storytelling project, The Corona Collective. Maria is living in TriBeCa New York City through the pandemic, and talks about how she...

One Small Step conversation partners Anita Lee (75) and Christine DeBastiani (53) have a conversation about being people who live on the borders or fringe, gender identity and trans people being politicized, and children being traumatized by COVID 19.

One Small Step conversation partners Julie Coulombe (55) and Sharon Zandman-Zeman (70) talk about their political beliefs, diversity in politics, and rigid political ideals.

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In this interview, told in November 2018, In Egg Harbor Township. Salman Bilgrami interviews his mom Vaseem Bilgrami about how her life was, growing up in India as a little child. She tells stories about how society was run there...

Natasha Berrio (16) interviews her father Hugo Berrio (57) on November 28, 2021 in Egg Harbor Township New Jersey, about his experience growing up and living in Colombia for the first half of his life and then moving to the...

Dr. Kenneth Kraemer (71) and nurse, Deborah Tamura (64) talk about their work and research with xeroderma pigmentosum at the National Institutes of Health.

Peter Singh (16) talks with his grandmother, Mercedes Luz (70) about her childhood and growing up in the Philippines. Mercedes discusses her time in Iran during the Iran Iraq war as a nurse in a military hospital. She traveled across...

Carmine Marino: 2021-02-15 00:54:24

This is a life story of my grandmother's husband who came from Egypt to visit his ex-father in law at that time and the life went so good that he decided to stay in the United States.

One Small Step partners Evelyn Fisher (72) and William "Bill" Agress (75) discuss switching political "sides," alternatives to Biden and Trump, and their personal experiences with mental illness.

Allison Pierson, Executive Director for Whitesbog Preservation Trust is interviewed by Kiyomi Locker about her tenure at Whitesbog, where she details the history of the historic site, farming of blueberries and cranberries, as well as the impact of female scientist...

I needed to talk to someone who I didn't know a whole lot about but wasn't boring. So I chose a family friend who grew up in Alaska and later moved to L.A.