Home (Ireland) to the great “Land of Opportunity”

Nora Collins visited her aunt, Marian this Thanksgiving in Mountain Home Arkansas. In this interview conducted on November 23, 2018, they discussed Marian and her family’s immigration story to the New York City area from rural Kerry, Ireland. They also...

My Dads Immigration to America

A father (James Watson) who lives in Marin County talks about his experiences coming to America from England with his son Jack. James initially came to America in order to obtain his MBA but then met his future wife and...

My thanksgiving interview

So this was an interview for thanksgiving, but since thanksgiving is such a big deal in my family with my relatives there wasn’t much time to interview someone and record them. Adding to the fact that for some of my...

The great thanksgiving

My grandmother, Fereshta Sabri, and I discuss her time in her home country and how she has to adapt to life in a new country and her experiences her in the U.S.

50’s and the Military

What civilian life and military life was like in the 50’s

Life of a Refugee from the congo

We talked about my mother's past and how her views in America. She talked about how things were when she was growing up and how much she struggled until she got here in America.

Abigail Smith and her mom discuss the past, the present, and the future.

We talked about our family and how she had to adapt to her surroundings because everything was different when she moved. We discussed her childhood and the love of her life and who impacted while she grew up. She told...