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We recorded this interview on Friday, September 15, 2017 at Aunt Laura's house at the dining room table. I had just driven down from Albany, NY where I was living at the time. It was still pretty warm out and...

Jimmy Pierce (58) talks with his son Benjamin Pierce (22) about his nonprofit ‘Kids Making It’ and public service.

Brandon discussed his experiences living in North Carolina and coping with extreme weather events like hurricanes.

A random account number of family traditions, advice and how life was in the 1920’s.

Growing up in in the 20's in Madisonville, Ohio.

Changes in the agricultural industry of N.C.

Matthew Bland interviewed by Zian Lane about his thoughts and ideas on the novel, ‘The Beautiful and Damned.”

Debbie Whitfield (68) and her daughter Ashley Whitfield Donovan (41) sit down together to remember Evelyn Butler Rosenkoetter, who was Debbie's mother and Ashley's grandmother.

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

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

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....

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...

Growing up in the 1930-40s. Roller skating and family stories.

[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...

Conversation about my grandfathers childhood

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...

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.

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.

I interviewed my father and he discussed some influential people and time in his life.

In this interview we listen to Jacob Morton and his story of what it is like growing up in Newport, North Carolina.

A story of how my 100 year old grandma experienced anti-semitism and discrimination as she moved throughout the United States and the world.

My mother, Mary Esther Ford (née Bazaldua) discusses her mother’s upbringing (Zoila Michaela Bazaldua) in the 1920s and 1930s in Sinton, Texas.

This is an interview I did with my grandmother (Bubi) about her challenging childhood during the Great Depression. (Note: My grandmother has been previously diagnosed with dementia, which is why there were some aspects of her story that were repeated.)

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