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We shared with each other a story about an experience that changed the way we think about writing, reading, communication, or education. I recorded it on my computer using Quicktime Player and Katie was over the phone on speaker. We...

Maryanne Matusko, age 78, grew up in Massachusetts where she worked on farms during her childhood. She married Raymond Matusko who was in the Air Force and traveled to many different areas with her three children before retiring in Currituck.

Mr. Turner shares his life story, growing up in North Carolina's Piedmont region and working in Durham's many tobacco and textile factories.

Alvera Smith discussed her past history.

Family history

I talked with my grandfather, GW Godfrey and my great aunt Doris Swain about their childhood on a rural farm in Lee county.

Changes in the agricultural industry of N.C.

An interview with my parents, Scot and Gina Brown, about Thanksgiving and their involvement with agriculture.

Ai Choo Kong (“Lovely Pearl”), age 84, interviewed by her daughter, Lin Min Kong (“Bright Forrest”), age 52, about her life growing up in Malaysia, including enduring the Japanese occupation, emigrating to the US, and living in rural North Carolina....

I interview my mom about her early life in India, and the different places everyone in my family lived in. I also ask about life here in the United States, and how she likes the way of living in this...

Asked them simple questions like where they were from and what they were most grateful for.

[Recorded Thursday, November 11, 2021] Rich (33) and Brook (44) recorded a One Small Step conversation together in Charlottesville, Virginia. They discussed democratic participation, voting, gerrymandering, the US economy, and the differences between political parties at the national and local...

Lucretia McCulley (Richmond, VA) interviewed her mother, Evelyn Loven McCulley Ochs (age 83) on October 2, 2015, about her parents running a boarding house and tourist home in the 1920s and 1930s in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a small mountain...

William ‘Bill’ Creasy (82) and his daughter Susan Creasy (51) talk about his childhood in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.

Interview about my mom’s journey and experience in grad school.

My life

Conversation about my grandfathers childhood

My Dad, Glenn, in the summer of 1976 sold books door-to-door in North Carolina. He has lots of stories about events that happened while doing so, in addition to character traits of all the different types of people he met.

In this interview, conducted in December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Matthew Palmer (17) interviews his father John Palmer (54) about his childhood, teenage, and college years. John tells about Christmas with his mother. He also shares what his first...

October 6th, 2018. I interview Alejandra Picón about her experience in the United States. Alejandra lives in Spain and spent last year with me and my family in North Carolina.

Jenny Modesitt (37) is a family friend of mine who had to have brain surgery to get rid of her epilepsy. In this interview, we talk about the struggles she had to go through, the people that helped her, and...

Mark Rodriguez (48) talks to his daughter, Aurora Rodriguez (17), about his love for music and what his life was like when he was growing up. He also discusses his views on the creative process.

Collin (40) and Cleo (50) talk with one another about their lives, activism, and being gay in the South.

Reverend Debra J. Hopkins, LGBTQI rights activist and interfaith organizer in North Carolina, shares her views on the importance of press freedom in the U.S. with Eline Marx, from PEN America.

Wife and husband, Sura Alhilali (25) and Mustafa Aljanabi (31) discuss their journeys to the United States, how they met, and the cultural differences between the United States and the Middle East.