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Stanley Yarnell (66) talks with Emily Smith Beitiks (31) about being a physician and living with disabilities. Stanley describes where he grew up, how he became blind, training with a cane, becoming a disability advocate, experiencing job discrimination and how...

Hear Karen Marie Smith (74) of Ridgefield, CT share how a commitment to positive growth, faith, love and a choice to see life with a sense of humor can move us forward through life's challenges and pain. Hear how life...

Polio,childhood,nursing

Friends and colleagues Sara DeRoo [no age given] and Connie Going [no age given] share a conversation about their own families and their experiences working in adoption and social work.

Friends Twilla Booker (59) talks with Dorothy Garza (63) about Dorothy’s childhood, her family, her time in college, in the Air Force, in Alaska, and Japan, her children, and about the life lessons that she would like to pass on...

Sisters Greta Harrelson (53) and Kimberly Exum (55) talk with their father, Bobby Harrelson (84), about his childhood, how he came to be adopted, how he met his wife, his time in the Army, his career in real estate development,...

Nikki Stephens Diacon (53) interviews her husband, Johnnie Diacon (59), about his childhood, his art, and his connection to Muscogee culture. They also discuss their family's future, remember their two daughters who have passed away, and share their love for...

an interview with my grandma talking about how times have changed.

Hollie Rogin, 52, interviews her father, Alan Rogin, 81 about the effects of him spending 9 months in a full body cast at the age of 16, due to post-polio syndrome, and how to overcome the challenges of isolation during...

Claire Griffin Francell (85) speaks with her daughter Mary Francell-Sharfstein (54) about herself as a first generation immigrant in the United States, growing up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and her life as a nurse, educator and volunteer.

Stories from childhood.

Interview with Patricia Harkaway (age 93) about communicable diseases (tuberculosis, polio, and COVID) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Marci describes her experience with polio at 7 years old as well as the ways in which it has affected her life.

DSW in conversation with MJA, TFR, WCS, PMR PMR Jr and son SDW - Residents; recruitment for Orthopaedic Surgery; ABOS certification - accelerated; Canadian training; Infancy of arthroscopy and total hips; Rancho/Akron Rehab Hospital; Polio; Outlying Clinics

Margaret Sturgill interviews her friend and coworker Dennis Horton (60) about his childhood diagnosis of polio and how it changed his life.

Reverend Heather Brewer (53) interviews Sarah O'Reilly (82) about contracting polio at twelve years old and the impact that had on her life.

Julie Scharper (42) shares a conversation with her mother, Diane Scharper [no age given], about Diane’s experience of having polio as a child.

Stories with grandaddy

Hayley Norton (36) interviews her grandmother, Gramme Alice (87), about her childhood in rural Missouri and her experience raising her three children.

One Small Step partners Marion Fulton (89) and Sabra Lumbert (34) discuss their very different backgrounds, their experiences teaching in Asia, and their differing views on abortion

Robert G. Kullman (94) was interviewed by his granddaughter, Colleen Kehoe-Conn (44) prior to quarantining on February 22, 2020. Grandpa Kullman describes his family and neighborhood during the Depression, childhood, surviving Polio, service in World War II, marriage and family,...

Susan talks to her daughter about her childhood, her college life, growing political awarness, her pride in her computer skills and expectations of women who raised families.

Mary Macnabb recounts experiences from her childhood and present years, and discusses the many hardships she has endured.

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Monica Tran (17) interviews her dad, Thuan Tran (55) about what his life was like after leaving Vietnam. He talks about how leaving Vietnam was for him as well as his early experiences in America. He also mentions how polio...