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Interviewing my wonderful Grandma, Joanne Pearson. I ask her about what it was like to grow up during World War II and what it was like to become a mother.

Recorded Nov 28, 2019. A second interview with my grandma. Talk about her childhood with divorced parents, her experience with the wars, and her life as a wife.

Addison K. Groff, a retired minister who was born in 1919 in Rochester, NY, but spent most of his adolescence in Boonsboro, Maryland, is interviewed by his grandson, Edwin Groff on November 25, 2017. He lived through some of the...

In this interview I asked my grandfather important questions about his life, and how he experienced it. Through this I have learned to savor each and every aspect of life and I learned how my grandfather saw life and how...

Interview with our Grandpa, Seymour Brightberg, WWII Veteran

Mr. Paternoster is 100 years old and recalls old times such as the Great Depression and his military service in World War Two.

In this interview, Carmelita Mixon gives a glimpse of her life to her granddaughter, Maria Mixon. We discussed her relationship with Reginald Lewis, Modeling, New York, Her Husband, and living during Segregation. We hope you enjoy!!!

My interview with my grandmother about living in England during the second world war.

This is a story of the experiences of Ron during his time in Sicily and Italy in World War II.

I interviewed my mom and she told me about her experiences in life.

I’m interviewing my grandfather, Dave Carder , about his history and his experience growing up abroad.

A granddaughter interviews her Jewish engineer, radiologist, air force lieutenant, pilot instructor grandfather shortly after the passing of his wife, her grandmother.

Barbra Foster talks about her frightening, yet wonderful experiences in the Big Apple around the 1940’s.

My interview with my mother: Memories from post WWII Germany, emigrating to the United States, culture shock, COVID-19, language barriers

Marion talks about her life, especially her younger years. A special story about Christmas, stories she would tell me as a kid (about her grandma). Her experiences as a home away from home for West Point Cadets. Grandma was the...

Sylvia Evans, aged 73 talks about growing up in South Boston (Southie) and everything else in her life. She talks about the lessons that she learned and her journey through life.

Our families influence us in so many ways. Some loving and some challenging. It is what we make of what we experience that creates the tenatiius, creative and capable people we are today.

Growing up in the forties and fifties, marriage and divorce in the sixties, and life and work.

My Great Uncle Joe: "I've had a gorgeous life." After the interview, he kept going. Looking at a 60" TV, he said the first TV he bought his father-in-law was a console with a 7" screen that received a single...

i interviewed my grandma about my great grandma (her mom). we talked about the stories of my grandma working as a nicu nurse and working in a soda shop. we talked about her dreams to be an actress and about...

Following the end of World War II, some German Prisoners of War were kept in Ithaca, New York. Buses would bring them to nearby farms where the were fed and worked in the fields.

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

After thanksgiving dinner I interviewed my grandpa

My great grandfather Mort shares his story about his life, his love, and his struggle, starting with a begining in the height of the Great Depression.

My dad greatly misses his childhood and parents. His parents were immigrants and children of the Great Depression. His parents were hardworking and did everything they could do for the community. His father, John, served in the marines during World...