Recording – 03-31-2024 15:35:11

Friends and nursing colleagues Joanne (74) and Anne (71) discuss Joanne’s experience as a mid-life Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, which led to a far-reaching career as a nurse consultant working with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, USAID, and Ministries...

Recording – 12-03-2023 21:09:10

I (14F) interviewed my mom (52F) about her Israeli identity and her life. We spoke about her time in the military, her life in apartheid South Africa, and the Oct. 7 attacks.

Two Badass Sisters Inspire the Rare Disease World

Suzanne Hoff, 76, listens to Sharon Neumann, 66, relate her remarkable experiences as caregiver from childhood for her younger sister diagnosed with the rare, incurable disease of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) to their remarkable journey developing world wide support (IFOP)for...

Mary Ellen Sweeney and Hoyt Taylor Reminisce About Their Youthful Adventures Traveling the World

Mary Ellen Sweeney and Hoyt Taylor, residents of Fearrington Village for 11 years, conferred with their three grown sons about what they would like to learn about their parents' early years of marriage and then joined us at Fearrington StoryCorps to...

German Imigrant Story
November 29, 2022 App Interview

My dad talks about his fathers experience growing up between 2 world wars in Germany, escaping to South Africa, and immigrating to the US.

Growing up in South Africa

Grandson interviews Grandmother about what is was for her growing up as a white South African. South Africa Bloemfontein (Flower Fountain)

The journey begins in hotel quarantine

Maya Pincus and Laura Guertin both served as Onboard Outreach Officers on JOIDES Resolution in 2022. With navigating the waters of COVID-19 still a challenge, Maya and Laura share their hotel quarantine stories before sailing out of Cape Town, South...

Wisdom from My Father

A conversation between Minnaar (Fiks) Schlüntz Nel and daughter Heidi Nel, on the heels of his 85th birthday about life lessons, how he hopes to be remembered, and his advice for the generations to come. Fiks has lived with a...

Ian Hicks and Sheri Bullock
October 25, 2022 App Interview

Ian Hicks 79, and Sheri Bullock 50, talked about growing up in South Africa, racism, having a bi-racial family and kindness

Interview of my Grandmother, Celia Fitzpatrick

An interview of Ceil Fitzpatrick of Fort Worth Texas, 82 years old, born in Ireland, now a Texan. By her eldest Granddaughter Caitriona Kratovil of Dallas.

Backpacks & Baguettes

A father and son talk about the children’s travel book they wrote together, Backpacks & Baguettes, and the reminder it provided of what it was like to live in the world before the pandemic hit - the sights, the smells...

"When the elephants fight the grass suffers." Malcolm Bryant and Jennifer Beard Talk About Global Health, Part 2

Malcolm Bryant talks about some of the big picture challenges he sees in the field of global health, ranging from narrow and overly medicalized strategies to reduce maternal and infant mortality to the skewed priorities and short timelines of donors....

Mom and Dads Wedding Interview

This is an interview of my parents in which we talk about their wedding and their honeymoon in South Africa.

Taking a walk through time

An interview with my Mother, Julie Bolton Williams, on January 1st 2020, at our home in Fort Mill, South Carolina. My Mother has brown hair with blue eyes. She was born in South Africa and has a English culture. She...

The Anti- Apartheid Movement

In the 80s the anti-apartheid movement was “the” cause and it was like the inheritor of the civil rights movement.

Living in Apartheid South Africa: An Interview With my Dad

I talk with my dad about how it was to live and teach in South Africa during the Apartheid. We talk about his experiences going there, protesting, and the day Nelson Mandela got released, among other things.

Grandpa M Interview

In this interview, the interviewee, Mike, talks about growing up in Sweet Home, Oregon and about traveling between the years 1974 and 1975.

SA to USA: Rogan’s Immigration Story

Rogan and I discuss his immigration to the United States from South Africa in a time of social and political turmoil. Rogan explores how his privilege in coming to the United States shaped his ability to assimilate into American culture.

South African immigrant.

I talked with my mom about her experiences coming from South Africa.

"It Was a Dangerous Time to be There": A Mother and Daughter Recall Living in South Africa During Apartheid

Kate Bergbauer and her mother Christabel Bergbauer sat down with Kate's daughter, Gemma Strauss, to discuss living in Apartheid South Africa in the 1970s' and witnessing the injustices that the people of color were facing.

Sage Gilbert interviews her grandma Rhona Gilbert for the 2019 Great Thanksgiving Listen.
November 30, 2019 App Interview

In this interview, conducted in November 2019 in Piedmont, California, Sage Gilbert (13) interviews her paternal grandmother, Rhona Gilbert (71), sharing stories from Rhona’s life all across the world.