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    SFB000394
    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
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    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
    Frank Kingman
    July 5, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Joyce Hayes, 64, talks with her friend Tanene, 28, about growing up in Chicago and her involvement with social work, education and politics.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chicago IL
    • college
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • John F. Kennedy
    • Mayor Richard Daley (Chicago)
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    MBX003906
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
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    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Kuhl and Abby Wheeler talk about their family get-togethers and how everyone seems to truly enjoy themselves.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • BB gun
    • Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Cake
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas, Christmas Eve
    • Cold War
    • family characters
    • Family gatherings
    • Family Legacy
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions, Rites of Passage
    • Fireworks, Firecrackers
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • memories of former times
    MBX004651
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
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    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    Nina Porzucki
    November 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edward Guczek, 87, is interviewed by his granddaughter, Jennifer Sawyer, 21, about his life.

    • 1935 Ford
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Butterfly Ballroom
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Commerce High School
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Diabetic
    • Dialysis
    • Eddie’s Service Station
    • Elmer’s Tune
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Lebanese
    • Lincoln Zephyr
    • memories of former times
    MBX005185
    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
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    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    April 18, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bernard Scott Rush, 68, by his daughter, Nicole Rush (Maat Free), 35, about growing up in Mississippi then moving to New York City.

    • African heritage
    • Ancestors
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Choktaw words
    • Cotton gin
    • Cotton picking
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Emmett Till
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Harlem, NY
    • Lynching
    spp000962
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
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    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    rpeltzman
    December 23, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    Retired FDNY speaks about experiences in the fire department

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    MBY004733
    Mary  Issacson and Julie Summers
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    Mary Issacson and Julie Summers
    cscott
    November 13, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mary Isaacson (46) and Julie Summers (46) discuss their time spent with the CampFire organization. They have been involved in some capacity since high school and are both current Board Members

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Camp Fire USA (2008)
    • CampFire, Camping, camp scott murders, merchandising, occupational therapy, spiritual leadership, camp counselors, board members, cancer, bonds formed during camp,
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    MBX000356
    Reggie Hodson, Robert Hodson, Patricia Dewar, and Christine MacNaughton
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    Reggie Hodson, Robert Hodson, Patricia Dewar, and Christine MacNaughton
    cbancroft
    July 31, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Patricia and Christine interview their parents, Reggie and Robert about their lives.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Dancing
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • labor movements and unions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Salesmen
    • school day memories
    LMN001585
    Sally Dorst and Jensen Wheeler Wolfe
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    Sally Dorst and Jensen Wheeler Wolfe
    Jalylah Burrell
    July 3, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Sally Dorst, 70, is interviewed by her employee Jensen Wheeler Wolfe, 48, about her love of the arts.

    • Alice Tully Hall
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Ballet
    • Classical music
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Einstein on the Beach
    • Family Traditions
    • Florida
    • Glamour Magazine
    • Hillbilly Hank
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • Lincoln Center
    • memories of former times
    • Money
    MBY000434
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
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    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    jangelos
    August 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Wife interviews husband about the building of thier home on the top of Moscow Mountain, activism, environmentalism, and his making of a giant mobile steel fire-breathing dragon

    • 14 foot snows
    • ancient cedar trees
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • arcosanti
    • blacksmith
    • boy dylan
    • buidling of home on Moscow Mountain
    • canyons, mountains, wheatfields, rivers
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • county commissioner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • creating fabricated steel dragon
    • dragon man
    • ecology
    • environmentalism
    MBY006539
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    39:34
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    May 23, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Patricio E Baca (66) talks with facilitator Lilly Sullivan (26) about his family’s genealogy and the “Baca” name in his family.

    • Alonzo Baca
    • Ana Pacheco
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Antonchito
    • Appearance
    • Battle of the Bulge
    • Childhood Games
    • Colorado
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Elvin Court
    • Execution
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    LMN002777
    Trish  Luksich and Katie Chun
    01:16:36
    Trish Luksich and Katie Chun
    Tomas Rios
    August 7, 2011 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Trish Luksich is interviewed by her friend Katie Chun about their friendship.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • athletes
    • coaches
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Injuries
    • knee injuries
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Mr. Snow
    • Mr. Suffolk
    • North Carolina
    • personal experiences
    • Port Jefferson High School
    • schoolyard games
    MBY007000
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey  Adamson
    01:19:24
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey Adamson
    Dana Glass
    September 26, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lyndsey Adamson (16) interviews her grandmother Judy Hultquist (65) about raising children and her memories of Lyndsey’s childhood.

    • Abortion
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunts
    • Babies
    • birth of first child
    • California
    • Catholic
    • Chemotherapy
    • Democratic
    • discipline
    • Falling
    • family in-jokes
    • Fighting
    • First day of school
    • Grandmother
    MBX007578
    Nathan Shapiro, Roberta Shapiro, and Anya Glandon
    37:00
    Nathan Shapiro, Roberta Shapiro, and Anya Glandon
    Jackie Sojico
    January 12, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Nathan Shapiro (93) is interviewed by his daughter Roberta Shapiro (57) and granddaughter Anya Glandon (19) about his childhood, his time in the army, and his life now.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Atomic bomb
    • Chicago
    • family characters
    • Family reunions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Hiroshima
    • historical events/people
    • Hortense Shapiro
    • Lake Michigan
    • Lakeshore drive
    • memories of growing up
    • Nagasaki
    • Neighbors
    • personal experiences
    MBY007533
    Adrienne Scott and Hannah Scott-Persson
    30:59
    Adrienne Scott and Hannah Scott-Persson
    Dana Glass
    February 26, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Adrienne Scott (49) and her daughter Hannah Scott-Persson (16) talk about Adrienne’s mother, who died when Hannah was 5.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • California State University Chico Department of Education (2011)
    • cardinal
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grandmothers
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • Lakota Sioux
    • memories of growing up
    • mothering
    • museum curator
    • Museums
    • Raising children
    MBX003113
    Randall Head and Jackie Head
    38:06
    Randall Head and Jackie Head
    Quentin Weld
    September 28, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Randall Head interviews his mother Jackie Head about her childhood, and reads a eulogy for his friend Robert Palmer Aud.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Betty Hagens Haggins, Doris, Virgil Head, Barbara Sue, David Howard, Shelby Howard, Debbie Balt Bald, Joy, Norman Martin,
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • death,
    • eulogy, Robert Palmer Aud,
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • National Dobro, Elana Collins, Bernard Head,
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBY006260
    Jose Barrios Ureño and Cindy Mosqueda
    40:53
    Jose Barrios Ureño and Cindy Mosqueda
    Jorge Rios
    March 1, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Jose Barrios Ureño, 89, habla con su nieta Cindy Mosqueda, 29, sobre su niñez en México, su migración a los Estados Unidos, sus orgullos y su familia. [Jose Barrios Ureño, 89, talks to his granddaughter Cindy Mosqueda, 29, about his...

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bracero Program
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY002640
    Shirley Dragoo and Deborah Mattson
    37:51
    Shirley Dragoo and Deborah Mattson
    Jenna Weiss-Berman
    April 13, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A woman speaks to her mother about growing up during the Great Depression and World War 2, and becoming an occupational therapist.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • Detroit, Michigan
    • Eastern Michigan University
    • Fanny Farmer’s Candy Store
    • Great Depression stories
    • Henry Ford
    • Hiroshima
    • historical events/people
    • Injuries
    • Iwo Jima
    • James Riley Children’s Hospital
    • labor movements and unions
    • memories of former times
    GRS000672
    Sylverna Ford and Carlissa N. Graham
    38:50
    Sylverna Ford and Carlissa N. Graham
    Sarah Geis
    November 14, 2007 Griot Site-Based

    Carlissia, 21, interviews Sylverna, 57, about growing up in Virginia and Baltimore during the Civil Rights Movement, her interest in libraries, becoming Dean of Libraries at the University of Memphis, and the problems facing African Americans today.

    • African American voting
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Baltimore, MD
    • Black panthers
    • Church
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dean of Libraries
    • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assasination
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Farmville, VA
    • historical events/people
    • Integration
    MBX000845
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    01:21:59
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    mtivnan
    November 21, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Willie King tells his friends about the person who most impacted his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Band
    • blues music
    • clubbing/bars
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community worthies
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Fred Frayser
    • historical events/people
    • juke joints
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    DDC000507
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    38:18
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    Kate Brown
    February 25, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Cynthia Tainsh (50) talks with her husband, Robert Tainsh (49), about moving to Florida from New England and their experiences having twins and then triplets.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • anesthesiology
    • birth of first child
    • child delivery
    • cleft palette
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Florida Hospital
    • Florida Hospital (2009)
    • Furniture
    • Golden Retriever
    • Harvard
    MBX003216
    Janis Bell , Laura Hill, Patti Bell, and Linda Bell
    36:33
    Janis Bell , Laura Hill, Patti Bell, and Linda Bell
    Quentin Weld
    October 24, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Janis Bell talks with her three daughters, Patti, Linda and Laura, about her childhood, attending seminary, and raising her daughters.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SPP001541
    Jeannette McGowan and Kathryn McGowan
    43:18
    Jeannette McGowan and Kathryn McGowan
    lbradley
    March 14, 2007 Sound Portraits Productions

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    MBX006942
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    38:54
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    Jorge Rios
    July 24, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Self-described “best friends forever” Mikey Riley, 23, and Jared Busch, 23, talk about their friendship and Mikey’s battle with drugs and multiple sclerosis.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drug rehabilitation camps, youth ministries
    • drug rehabilitation, childhood, puberty, adolecence
    • family characters
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • multiple sclerosis, drug addictions
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • religious work
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX004754
    Robert Morris and Robert Morris
    01:16:16
    Robert Morris and Robert Morris
    Nina Porzucki
    January 7, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Robert N. Morris, 82, is interviewed by his son, Robert “Myke” Morris, 54.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • dairy farms
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • First National Bank of Tampa
    • Florida
    • Florida Agriculture Hall of Fame
    • Florida College
    • Glasgow, KY
    • Hillsborough County
    wtc000035
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    01:23:44
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    Nick Yulman
    July 21, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    A woman interviews her sister about escaping from WTC on 9/11.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • historical events/people
    • Injuries
    • luck and fate
    • Merchant Marines
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
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