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    MBX004348
    Stephanie Schamess and Rebecca  Flowers Schamess
    00:00
    Stephanie Schamess and Rebecca Flowers Schamess
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    September 15, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Stephanie tells stories of her big and dramatic family.

    • Al
    • American Idol
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • argentina
    • blacksmith
    • Bob
    • Columbia Records
    • Facebook
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • Family life
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    MBY003341
    Claude Crowley, Carolyn Whitaker Crowley, and Claudia Crowley
    40:21
    Claude Crowley, Carolyn Whitaker Crowley, and Claudia Crowley
    hmarshall
    October 18, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Claudia Crowley interviews her parents Claude and Carolyn Crowley about their careers and personal interests.

    • 1960’s
    • 1970’s
    • 1st Congregational Church
    • Amon Carter Museum
    • apprenticeships
    • blind date
    • Books
    • conservation education
    • Cooksville, TN
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Development
    • environmental movement
    • family in-jokes
    • Fayetteville, TN
    • liberal politics
    MBY006212
    Angie Apodaca and Cynthia Apodaca
    42:55
    Angie Apodaca and Cynthia Apodaca
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    February 19, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Angie Apodaca (74) talks with her daughter Cynthia Apodaca (47) about losing her son Eric to HIV/AIDS.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cemetery traditions
    • community worthies
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • gay
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • Injuries
    • Las Memorias Project
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    Lilien Vogl, O.D. talks with Donald E. Jarnagin, O.D. about optometry history and the future of the profession
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    Lilien Vogl, O.D. talks with Donald E. Jarnagin, O.D. about optometry history and the future of the profession
    Optometry Cares
    March 5, 2019 App Interview

    On Friday, February 22, 2019, Dr. Lilien Vogl, Chair of the Optometric Historical Society, sat down with Dr. Donald E. Jarnagin, past-president of the American Optometric Association (1995-1996) to talk about his life, his work and developments in the profession...

    • American Optometric Association
    • American Optometric Association
    • Arizona
    • Arizona
    • Diagnostic pharmaceutical agents
    • history of medicine
    • history of professionalism
    • Medicare
    • military optometry
    • optometric education
    • optometrists
    • optometry
    • Optometry Cares - The AOA Foundation
    • optometry history
    • scope of practice
    SFB000696
    Erica Hymen and Adamn Arenstein
    00:00
    Erica Hymen and Adamn Arenstein
    Alex Lyon
    February 18, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Erica Hymen (29) and her husband Adam Arenstein (28) talk about their relationship, how they met and what the future holds.

    • Appearance
    • Babies
    • birth of first child
    • Challenges
    • Chicago
    • Cinquaterra
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite pictures
    • fond memories
    • Grateful
    LMN001519
    Fred Gonzalez, Alex Leguillow, and Jalylah Burrell
    37:09
    Fred Gonzalez, Alex Leguillow, and Jalylah Burrell
    Jalylah Burrell
    May 14, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Fred Gonzalez, Jr., 27, and Alex Leguillow, 63, remember Alex’s nephew and Fred’s brother Nestor A. Cintron III, a Cantor Fitzgerald broker who was killed on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center attacks.

    • 9/11
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cantor Fitzgerald
    • Colgate University
    • college
    • family in-jokes
    • Lower East Side
    • Martial arts
    • memories of growing up
    • North Tower
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    • World Trade Center
    • World Trade Center 1993 Bombing
    MBX000961
    L. Sanford Reis and Kyle Reis
    01:23:49
    L. Sanford Reis and Kyle Reis
    nsimon
    January 15, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    97-year-old grandfather reminisces about the early 20th century.

    • family in-jokes
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    • street patterns
    MBY003775
    Linda Dean Goolsbee and Rose Gorman
    38:29
    Linda Dean Goolsbee and Rose Gorman
    Rose Gorman
    March 20, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Linda Dean Goolsbee tells StoryCorps facilitator Rose Gorman of her parents, Jack and Francis Dean.

    • Abilene, Tx
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Coretta Scott King
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • El Paso, TX
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grand Canyon
    • historical events/people
    • Holland Tunnel
    • honesty
    • Jack and Francis Dean
    mbx002658
    Dolores E. Daluz and Jane Lowey
    39:47
    Dolores E. Daluz and Jane Lowey
    npumilia
    May 30, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Jane Lowey interviews her friend, Dolores, about growing up in Dover, DE during segregation, her mother and father, the poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and her husband.

    • 1940
    • Appearance
    • Cici Henry
    • college
    • Dover, DE
    • Ducky Massey
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • flour sacks
    • ghost stories
    • Influential People
    • memories of growing up
    SFD000017
    Caroline Yee and Susan Yee
    01:28:55
    Caroline Yee and Susan Yee
    Sarah Geis
    February 20, 2009 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Susan, 35, interviews her mother Caroline, 64, about growing up in Oakland’s Chinatown, her work as a principal, and her family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Asian pride
    • Bock Quong Chin
    • Childhood Games
    • Chin Chum Chin
    • Chinatowns
    • Chinese Restaurants
    • Chinese school
    • Chinese-Americans
    • Christopher Yee
    • Class
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • community worthies
    MBY006037
    Etelvina Hernandez, Monica Garcia, and Maribel Barrera
    40:28
    Etelvina Hernandez, Monica Garcia, and Maribel Barrera
    Nina Porzucki
    December 10, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Etelvina Hernandez (81) is interviewed by her daughters, Monica García (47) and Maribel Barrera (45) about her childhood in México, her life in the U.S. and her job with Mary Kay Cosmetics.

    • Abuela
    • almuerzo
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • bigote
    • Buñuelos
    • Christmas Traditions
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cookies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • dancing with Mary Kay
    • Director of Mary Kay
    • el rancho
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    SFB000152
    Joseph Engler and Kerry Slattery
    01:27:42
    Joseph Engler and Kerry Slattery
    Alex Lyon
    January 22, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Joseph Engler (65) talks to his daughter Kerry Slattery (36) about his life as a San Francisco Police officer

    • Accidents
    • alcoholics anonymous
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Bob Quinn
    • Coma
    • Consequences
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family expressions
    • family feuds
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    MBX004727
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    00:00
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Violet Hittle, 97, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Doreen Myers,50.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Bowling
    • card parties
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • German
    • Germany
    • Lifesavers
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBX004642
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    00:00
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    whenry-lester
    November 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Roz interviews her parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and tells them things the family has said about them.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • Father’s Day
    • gift
    • Grandkids
    • Gymnastics
    • Honeymoon
    SCK000165
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    00:00
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 27, 2005 StoryKit

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family feuds
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    wtc000266
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    00:00
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    cbancroft
    November 26, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    Three sisters interviewed by daughter/niece about growing up on a cattle ranch in south Texas as a Mexican-American family. Stories about their university educations, traditions, pranks, and life on the ranch.

    • Appearance
    • Cattle ranching
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dress-ups
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mexican-American
    MBY004268
    Russell Dale and Serena Stickney
    39:23
    Russell Dale and Serena Stickney
    Sasha Rodriguez
    July 28, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Serena Stickney interviews Russell Dale, reunited after twenty years. They talk about who they were in the third grade, who they are now, and what they want to be in the future.

    • Alamosa
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Facebook
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mexico
    • Orphanage
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    lmn001535
    William Wiegelman and Maureen Castro
    40:22
    William Wiegelman and Maureen Castro
    Daniel Littlewood
    May 30, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Bill Wiegelman (78) talks with his daughter Maureen Castro (45) about his life, growing up, and their family.

    • Arbor Day
    • Bowling
    • cigar
    • Coal
    • Continental Insurance Company
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • NY
    • PS81
    • Public School 81
    • riverdale
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBY006052
    Gabriela Ventura and Georgina Baeza
    28:02
    Gabriela Ventura and Georgina Baeza
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    December 13, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Gabriela Baeza VEntura (39) talks with sister Georgina Baeza (27) about her academic success.

    • academics
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Arte Publico Press (2009)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Editing
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • first impression of America
    • Isabel Allende
    • Latino Literature
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    SFB000245
    Michael Aronson and Jody London
    01:22:33
    Michael Aronson and Jody London
    Alex Lyon
    March 22, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Michael Aronson (48) and his wife Jody London (45) talk about meeting through a singles add in the newspaper.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Dancing
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • family trips and excursions
    • Fidgety Girl’: songs
    • first dates
    • Muddy Waters Cafe’, San Francisco
    • North Beac, SF
    • personal adds
    • personal experiences
    • Personalities
    • phone messages
    MBY004574
    Michael McLees and Geri McLees
    33:48
    Michael McLees and Geri McLees
    cscott
    October 9, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Michael McLees (55) and his wife Geri McLees (52) remember the life and times of Michael’s Grandfather John who immigrated from Norway in 1912 and lived a long full life in the United States

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • bottled ships, Norway, Titanic, Bill Cosby, Woodworking, Cullom North Dakota, professional wrestling, minnesota history, outdoor sports, darkhouse fishing
    • carving
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • first impression of America
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    MBX003926
    Bruce Ferguson and Miriam (Mimie) Pacheco
    41:17
    Bruce Ferguson and Miriam (Mimie) Pacheco
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 30, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bruce Ferguson talks with his daughter, Mimie Pacheco about his love of history, farming, and serving in a public service office for over 20 years.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Boon County, Kentucky
    • Chicken, Cows, Pigs
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • County Judge Executive
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Lineage
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    GCT004736
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    53:47
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    Michelle Swinehart
    February 9, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Karen Cathers tells her kids, Nikki Pison, Justin Peone, Christina Pappalardo about her childhood growing up with Communist parents during the Cold War, marrying an older man when she was 17, and feeling determined to be a “perfect” mother for...

    • 4th Grade
    • birth of first child
    • capitalism
    • Childhood Games
    • Communism
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • May Day Parade
    • memories of former times
    MBY007119
    Judith Blake and Caroline Denham
    01:24:33
    Judith Blake and Caroline Denham
    Jackie Sojico
    October 30, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Caroline Denham (25) and her mother Judith Blake (65) have a conversation about Caroline’s childhood and Judith’s parenting choices.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bob Dylan
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • Norman, Oklahoma
    • Parenting
    • personal experiences
    • ritual foods
    • social beliefs and practices
    • song composing
    • Spouse
    • Woody Guthrie
    DDA000148
    Raphael Lev and Melissa Ingells
    40:03
    Raphael Lev and Melissa Ingells
    Michael Premo
    August 11, 2007 Door-to-Door Kit A

    Lev Raphael tells his friend Melissa Ingells about growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors and becoming a scholar and author on the subject

    • City Life
    • European Jewery
    • European Jews
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • holocaust
    • Holocaust survivor
    • Impressions of Germany
    • New York city
    • NYC
    • Survivors
    • Washington Heights
    • WKAR/MSU Museum (2007)
    • Word War II
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