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    MBY003888
    Virginia McConnaha Kranz, Lisa Kranz Meuser, and Dave Kranz
    40:14
    Virginia McConnaha Kranz, Lisa Kranz Meuser, and Dave Kranz
    Sarah Geis
    April 20, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lisa, 44, and Dave, 52, interview Virginia, 80, about growing up on a farm in Illinois and meeting her husband, Dick.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Blanche McConnaha
    • Bob Freitas
    • California
    • Catholic conversions
    • Champaign News Gazette, IL
    • Chicago, IL
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Driving
    • Eastern Illinois Teacher’s College
    • Edith McConnaha Hohn
    • Ethel McConnaha Fell
    • family members in history
    MBY007844
    Cherilyn Evans and Daniel Littlewood
    24:59
    Cherilyn Evans and Daniel Littlewood
    ecohen
    May 14, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Cherilyn Evans (63) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about how she moved from Los Angeles to Ukiah, California.

    • Aaron Imani Thomas
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Big Sur, California
    • changing demographics
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community theatre
    • continuation high schools
    • Crenshaw High School
    • Echo Park, Los Angeles
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family trips and excursions
    • Hitchhiking
    • job interviews
    NPL000401
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    01:16:47
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    Kate Wingate
    July 30, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Larry tells Martha about his family and the impact his father and uncle had on his life.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Boxing
    • Childhood Games
    • Circus
    • Clinton, MI
    • clubbing/bars
    • De Molay
    • Deleon, TX
    • Edwin Bledsoe Keyes
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    MBY001258
    Charley Spining and Anne Doyle
    41:42
    Charley Spining and Anne Doyle
    pkochhar
    March 23, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Friend interviews Charley about being the piano player at a favorite hangout in Flagstaff, and about his childhood growing up in a town near the Navajo reservation, called Ganado, in Arizona.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • lodges
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX004737
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    01:18:24
    Edith Johnson and Jaimie Johnson
    Nina Porzucki
    December 20, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edith E. Johson, 80, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Jaimie Johnson, 26.

    • 500 Club
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • army photographer
    • birth of first child
    • Boot Lake
    • Bridge Club
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas code
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Davenport, IA
    • dying
    • economic beliefs and practices

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