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What is it like to be the only one in your family to attend college?

I interviewed my grandma, Myrna, and asked questions about her childhood including her parents and siblings, her motherhood while raising my mom and her other children, and her favorite memories of her grandchildren.

Thanksgiving interview

Talking to grandma about life

This interview about my mom's life and her experience.

This was an interview about what my Dads life was like. It was also about his Ancestors and relatives and what they did.

After thanksgiving dinner I interviewed my grandpa

Mark Toenjes talks with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Visitor Services Associate Angela Herrmann about quarantine and the hope of art while standing inside the art installation "SHELTER" by Derek Fordjour.

How does the child of immigrant parents become a greatly respected and successful businessman, with nothing but diligence and hard work? On November 28, 2017, Jade Mars interviews her father Michael Karlin in Beverly Hills California. He will talk about...

Kathy is a mom and a former parent educator. During her tenure at PAT, she's supported military installations and tribal communities who implement the Parents as Teachers evidence-based home visiting model. Kathy has a 35 year legacy of working with...

In this interview, recorded November 28 2022 in Denver, Colorado Ezri Peterson (15) interviews her grandmother Betty Peterson about the origins of her side of the family. Betty shares that her grandparents had come from Russia. She also says that...

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.

Sherry Barnes (67) interviews her mother Edna Elvira Jett (90) about the ways she and her husband cultivated a loving and nurturing home in their neighborhood.

Sarah "Sally" Butzin (76) interviews her husband, Peter Butzin (77), about his involvement in the draft resistance movement during the Vietnam War.

Artist Michael Byron talks with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Visitor Services Associate Courtney Paolicchi about quarantine and the hope of art while standing inside the art installation "SHELTER" by Derek Fordjour.

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Bill Harlan talks about his life as a police officer, husband, father, and role model.

Tom Bergan and Annie Bryan talk with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Visitor Services Associate Angela Hermann about quarantine and the hope of art while standing inside the art installation "SHELTER" by Derek Fordjour.

Hi my name is ilan I am 14 years old it is November 22,2018 I am intervening my Mom today in queens N.Y.

Arica "Ariy" Avery (33) talks with her boyfriend Brian Foster (34) about childhood memories, their relationship, and their pathways to entrepreneurship.

Life from childhood to college

Judy Hughes tells about the story of her family life from childhood to marraige to the present day (2018).

Abraham Goldbaum talks to his grandson, Daniel Stock, and daughter, Ruth Goldbaum, about his love of music, life as an activist and traveling with his wife, Etta. Now at 100 years of age, he continues to sing in the rock...

I asked my father questions about his immigration from Ukraine to eventually the West, and general questions about his childhood.

Tiffany Marquart talks with Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Visitor Services Associate Angela Herrmann about quarantine and the hope of art while standing inside the art installation "SHELTER" by Derek Fordjour.