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    MBX003906
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    00:00
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Kuhl and Abby Wheeler talk about their family get-togethers and how everyone seems to truly enjoy themselves.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • BB gun
    • Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Cake
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas, Christmas Eve
    • Cold War
    • family characters
    • Family gatherings
    • Family Legacy
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions, Rites of Passage
    • Fireworks, Firecrackers
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • memories of former times
    MBY004733
    Mary  Issacson and Julie Summers
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    Mary Issacson and Julie Summers
    cscott
    November 13, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mary Isaacson (46) and Julie Summers (46) discuss their time spent with the CampFire organization. They have been involved in some capacity since high school and are both current Board Members

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • CampFire, Camping, camp scott murders, merchandising, occupational therapy, spiritual leadership, camp counselors, board members, cancer, bonds formed during camp,
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    MBX006240
    William  Silva and Laylah Silva
    31:49
    William Silva and Laylah Silva
    Virginia Lora
    January 17, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    William Silva, 63, and his daughter, Laylah Silva, 38 talk about William’s life growing up coming back an d forth from Cuba to the United States, and their unconventional family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Black
    • Bohemian
    • bottle cap
    • chapita
    • Childhood Games
    • Church
    • clb house
    • Cuavitas
    • Cuba
    • family members in history
    • Fidel Castro
    • Fights
    • first impression of America
    • France
    ATL000101
    Sarah  Withers  and Debbie  Withers
    01:09:11
    Sarah Withers and Debbie Withers
    libitoye
    November 30, 2009 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Debbie Withers (48) interviews her mother-in-law, Sarah Wjthers (78) about her life as a educator and a minister’s wife and her family.

    • Administrator
    • Bless our Food, Bless our Friends
    • Childhood Games
    • Doctorate of Humanities
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Honey
    • Joel Chandler Harris
    • memories of growing up
    • Mercer University
    • minister’s wife
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBX004657
    Paul Zorn, Sarah Zorn, and Martha Zorn
    41:15
    Paul Zorn, Sarah Zorn, and Martha Zorn
    Anna Walters
    December 1, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Sarah (Sally) Zorn (77) and her husband, Paul Zorn (81) talk to their daughter, Martha Zorn (50) about their own parents and experiences growing up and their passion for bicycling.

    • California, sabbatical, Canadian rockies
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Hartford, Windsor, elementary school, junior high, diary
    • Lutheran church, lutheran, Harvard, Yale, Hasty Pudding Club
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mental illness
    • New Mexico, fly-fishing, smoking, bicycle, bicycle trips
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    MBY006539
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    39:34
    Patricio Baca and Lilly Sullivan
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    May 23, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Patricio E Baca (66) talks with facilitator Lilly Sullivan (26) about his family’s genealogy and the “Baca” name in his family.

    • Alonzo Baca
    • Ana Pacheco
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Antonchito
    • Appearance
    • Battle of the Bulge
    • Childhood Games
    • Colorado
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Elvin Court
    • Execution
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    MBY005898
    Barbara Sinnett, Dan Sinnett, and Ralph Sinnett
    38:45
    Barbara Sinnett, Dan Sinnett, and Ralph Sinnett
    whenry-lester
    October 28, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Ralph interviews his brother, Dan, and sister, Barbara, about their memories from childhood of their parents and grandparents.

    • Adeline Mueller
    • Bingo
    • birth of first child
    • Chevrolet
    • Chicken
    • Childhood Games
    • Daniel Joseph Sinnett Sr.
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • Fried Chicken
    • Kansas
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Porter Wagner
    ATD000341
    Saralyn Chesnut and Lorraine Fontana
    01:21:33
    Saralyn Chesnut and Lorraine Fontana
    Amanda Plumb
    April 12, 2011 Atlanta Door-To-Door

    Loraine Fontana (62) asks her friend Saralyn Chesnut (62), the first director of Emory’s Office of Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Life. As a child in the 50s and 60s, Saralyn learned to “act like a girl,” but in college...

    • Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance
    • Childhood Games
    • communal housing
    • Community Action Program
    • drug counseling
    • eating co-ops
    • Emory University
    • English
    • Feminism
    • Florida State
    • folks singers
    • Georgian for the Equal RIght
    • graduate school
    • Hummingbird Heights
    • Julia Penelope
    MBX005978
    Zand Bakhtiari and Rosemary Bakhtiari
    40:24
    Zand Bakhtiari and Rosemary Bakhtiari
    Anna Walters
    October 25, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Zand Bakhtiari (18) and his mother, Rosemary Bakhtiari (50), remember Rosemary’s father, Frank Firek, by recounting their favorite stories from his life.

    • asbestos
    • cemetery traditions
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • Eastern Europe
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • Family Stories
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • Norfolk
    • Notre Dame
    • Pennsylvania
    MBY007495
    Jessica Zaffarano and Shelly Mariposa
    35:35
    Jessica Zaffarano and Shelly Mariposa
    Dana Glass
    February 18, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Shelly Mariposa (52) and Jessica Zaffarano (33) talk about living on a commune during Jessica’s childhood.

    • 1960’s
    • 1970’s
    • 1980’s
    • Beach
    • Butte Canyon
    • Butte Creek
    • California
    • canyon
    • Chico
    • Childhood Games
    • Commune
    • community life
    • community living
    • Creek
    • egg hunts
    SCK000513
    Alison Ligon and Alison Ligon
    37:58
    Alison Ligon and Alison Ligon
    No Facilitator
    February 16, 2007 StoryKit

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family members in history
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    SCK000367
    E.J. Christiansen and Kim Spelts
    27:40
    E.J. Christiansen and Kim Spelts
    No Facilitator
    December 1, 2006 StoryKit

    • Childhood Games
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SPP000845
    Wilfred Bank and Myrna Gardner
    38:57
    Wilfred Bank and Myrna Gardner
    shaas
    October 1, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    World War II stories; story of falling in love with wife at first sight.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    • Spouse
    MBX006942
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    38:54
    Mikey Riley and Jared Busch
    Jorge Rios
    July 24, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Self-described “best friends forever” Mikey Riley, 23, and Jared Busch, 23, talk about their friendship and Mikey’s battle with drugs and multiple sclerosis.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drug rehabilitation camps, youth ministries
    • drug rehabilitation, childhood, puberty, adolecence
    • family characters
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • multiple sclerosis, drug addictions
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • religious work
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    SCK001846
    Christine Larson and Alexandra Larson
    00:00
    Christine Larson and Alexandra Larson
    December 9, 2009 StoryKit

    • Childhood Games
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    MBX000249
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    00:00
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    cbancroft
    July 7, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Dan Shellenbarger interviews his mother, Sue, about her activist work.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBX004642
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    00:00
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    whenry-lester
    November 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Roz interviews her parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and tells them things the family has said about them.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • Father’s Day
    • gift
    • Grandkids
    • Gymnastics
    • Honeymoon
    MBX005470
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    01:14:58
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    Nina Porzucki
    June 25, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Pauline Curry (64) is interviewed by her daughter, Christine Hemmings (40) about her lifetime love of the Dolly Copp campground.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Berlin, NH
    • birth of first child
    • camp fire
    • camp songs
    • Camping
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Dolly Copp Campground
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    MBY002610
    Thomas J. McMahon  and Deirdre McMahon Boone
    42:22
    Thomas J. McMahon and Deirdre McMahon Boone
    Susan Lee
    April 6, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Thomas tells daughter about meeting her mother and about how he came to Chicago from Ireland.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Babysitter
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Childhood Games
    • contruction
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dating
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Ireland
    • labor movements and unions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Richard Daly
    • school day memories
    MBX002408
    Margaret Oney and Larry Oney
    01:16:41
    Margaret Oney and Larry Oney
    npumilia
    March 17, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Larry Oney interviews his mother, Margaret, about her life in rural Virginia, her children, and how she would like to be remembered.

    • birth of first child
    • childbirth
    • Childhood Games
    • death of child
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Hillside Court, Richmond, VA
    • Hog butchering
    • King and Queen County, VA
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Years Day
    • Phillip Morris
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Richmond, VA
    ATL000547
    Jean Crawley and Barbara Pann
    40:04
    Jean Crawley and Barbara Pann
    cokie
    October 30, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Jean Crawley, 75, tells her daughter, Barbara Pann, 49, about growing up and working in Cynthiana, Kentucky, losing her first husband, and being a single mother.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • Cynthiana, Kentucky
    • Dolls
    • Family Traditions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Fort Smith
    • Injuries
    • Jockey sewing factory
    • Lexington, Kentucky
    • Liz Taylor
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBX007396
    Liane Russell and Cindy Kendrick
    39:34
    Liane Russell and Cindy Kendrick
    Jorge Rios
    November 5, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Liane “Lee” Russell (87) talks to her friend Cindy Kendrick (53) about her life and scientific accomplishments.

    • beliefs on environment conservation
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • dissertation
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • historical events/people
    • London bombing
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mutation research
    • Nazi invasion of Austria
    NPL000300
    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    01:19:35
    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    Martha O'Brien
    May 14, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Theresa Hogan tells memories of her happy life growing up in Canada to her daughter, Maureen Schlater.

    • bikes
    • birth of first child
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Dancing
    • Detroit, MI
    • family trips and excursions
    • fiance
    • Great Depression stories
    • Great grandchildren
    • hopscotch
    • James W. Hogan WWII Pacific
    • Memories of Children
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    SCK001795
    Mary Carter, Robert Carter, and Chris Hennigan
    39:55
    Mary Carter, Robert Carter, and Chris Hennigan
    October 28, 2009 StoryKit

    • carving
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    wtc000066
    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    02:41:27
    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    mramberg
    July 31, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    father tells daughter about growing up near an amusement park; daughter remembers commuting to WTC on 9/11/01

    • Childhood Games
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
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