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Carly Interviews her mother Kerry Swanton about her childhood her family and family traditions. (5.44-7.24)

From managing the family farm at age 16 to becoming an accomplished accordion musician, artist, and featured elder in the film, “Whole Again”, Evelyn lives her joy in life every day.

In this interview, conducted in November 2022 in Palos Park, Illinois, Aleksandra Kasprzak (13) interviews her grandmother Elżbieta Joniak (66) about growing up in Poland.

Interview of my Grandpa Zbigniew Zajac by Jonas Zajac

[Recorded: Friday, September 2nd, 2022] Lillian (20) and Donna (68) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Lillian is a Third Year student at the University of Virginia studying public policy, leadership, and religious studies. Donna is the...

Listen as Walt tells us the story of his life, starting in New Jersey then traveling to Iowa and then landing in Flint Michigan and ending up here at Friendship Village.

Interview between Claudia (Miami) and Amanda (Georgia) about their relationship with food and cooking.

Talk about food and love for cooking

We talked about food and our childhood memories surrounding our favorite dishes.

Kristine Guerrero talks about Mangu, Los Tres Golpes, La Bandera. She explains what it means in her culture and why it is important. She talks about how it is made and how it represents her homeland.

In this interview I ask my friend Juan Vascones who is from Ecuador about a certain dish that is very important to him and why. My goal for this interview was to learn the cultural, social, and economic reasons as...

Busci and I talk about travel, advice, and the Polish language

I talked with my grandma about her grandkids and the delicious foods she cooks.

Food

Interviewing my Grandma

My Grandma talking about growing up

An interview with Ryan and Bill about pop culture in China.

Fun

Hedy Sanni (78) of Lynnfield, Massachusetts talks with her daughter Christine Sanni (53) of Flourtown, PA about the Polish Christmas traditions she remembers, how she incorporated those into married life with Casper Sanni (deceased), who was from Italian descent, and...

Polish heritage, holidays, foods, traditions

Stories from childhood, to adolescence, to young adulthood

Mom talks about her inspirations and trip from Poland to the US at a young age.

Trey(13)’s Grandma (70) talks about her family origins and Thanksgiving memories in this interview.

Speaking to Alicia Soto about her childhood growing up in California with Immigrant parents. This was recorded in Orange California in April 23, 2020. Alicia is 44 who came to the United Stated when she was 3 and tells her...

Cultural differences and experience moving from china to the us