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In this interview, made in November 2023 in Birmingham, Alabama, Sydney Allen (17) interviews her grandfather, Terry Allen (73), about his experiences teaching history and personal life tips/lessons. Terry Allen shares why he loved to teach and his favorite events...

Grandad’s family history in NZ and UK, our family now and what’s in store for the future

Leo Brichta (75) discusses his capture and harrowing experiences in Siberia as a Prisoner of War in WWI. Interviewed by grandson Marshal Granor (16) then a high school student in 1972 as a social studies assignment for Dr. Herman Wohl...

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...

Interview with Arushay Awan about her journey from Islamabad to Bradley University in Peoria, IL

Vaughn talks fondly about his youth, family, love of basketball, and his first love.

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Swedesboro, NJ, Ryan Sweeney (15) talks to his grandfather Edward Glanfield (83) about his life. Ryan’s grandfather shares stories of his childhood and growing up in Collingdale, PA. He talks about his...

Genevieve Dominick speaks about her experience in Chicago between the Great Depression to the present (2017).

My dad, Jerri Biscuola, speaks on our family’s immigration from Italy to Brazil and from Brazil to the US.

Interview with Goutham Darapeni about his journey to America and Bradley University.

An encapsulation of my mom, Patricia Gordon's, amazing life!

Valentina Marin (16) interviews her uncle, Leonardo Villa (54) about his childhood in Colombia and about working at the Twin Towers.

Erin Canada: 2021-04-28 02:16:05 This is a short interview with my sister about some of the things she remember from our childhood.

Jenny Rask: 2020-12-09 02:07:14 Jenny Rask interviews father Gene Rask about his life. Living in Portland, Oregon and Butte, Montana. Our current stay at home order in California. Being quarantined for Scarlett Fever as a child in Butte, Montana. Fevers,...

This eighty-minute 1974 interview of Anna Gertrude (Steinmetz) Paulus by her daughter Roman Catholic Sister Roma (Florence "Nancy") Paulus was recorded two years before Anna's death at age 86. Also present was son Bertram "Bob" Paulus. After some family singing,...

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

My dad Ian Harris briefly talked about his travels to America in his twenties and the history of his grandparents, and great-grandparents including about what they did for a living and how thy did it back in the 19th century...

Kevin Green (63) speaks with his daughter, Hannah Green (23), about growing up in the 1960s in Westfield, Mass. He reflects on a childhood spent in the outdoors and how his relationship to nature continues to this day.

In this interview, conducted in December 2019 in South Barrington, Illinois, Raj Patel (16) interviews his grandfather Prabhudas Patel (70) about his childhood from living in a poor village in Western India and to discuss how he immigrated to America....

Dana Marotto (52) reflects on her childhood and discusses the changes childhood has undergone in the past decades with her son, Matthew Marotto (16).

If you are willing to take chances in life, not let fear hold you back, you can use your life experience to help you achieve things you could never have previously dreamed of doing!