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    MBX003906
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
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    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
    MBY001956
    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane  Reeves
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    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane Reeves
    Ryan Murdock
    August 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Michael and Joseph talk about their father/son relationship and their sexuality.

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • Sexual orientation
    • social beliefs and practices
    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
    LMN000880
    Lynne  Murray and Kathrina Proscia
    01:18:27
    Lynne Murray and Kathrina Proscia
    Jalylah Burrell
    November 15, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Lynne Murray, 57, in conversation with her good friend Kathrina Proscia, 48.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Brooklyn
    • Catholic
    • child-rearing
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • Fundraising
    • Grammar school
    • Howard beach
    • Lido Beach
    • memories of former times
    • new york
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    LMN001745
    Guillermo  Klein and Marisa Karplus
    40:41
    Guillermo Klein and Marisa Karplus
    Cecilia Agudelo
    October 16, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Walter Klein (73) was interviewed by Marisa karplus (31) to talk about her father Esteban, who pass away and used to have a very close relationship with Walter

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Family Traditions
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Sports Day
    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
    SCK001670
    Kathryn Chapman and Bruce Failor
    41:47
    Kathryn Chapman and Bruce Failor
    July 29, 2009 StoryKit

    • Appearance
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • watching and listening habits
    MBX007887
    Melissa  Fineman and Marvin Fineman
    38:35
    Melissa Fineman and Marvin Fineman
    Beatriz Colonia
    March 28, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Melissa Fineman (21) talks with her father Marvin Fineman (67) about an art pieces expressing her struggles of being bicultural.

    • Appearance
    • artistic expression
    • being bilingual
    • Bicultural
    • bilingual
    • Biracial
    • Body image
    • Catholic
    • Culture
    • Dearborn, Michigan
    • Family Traditions
    • Filipino
    • Filipino culture
    • Gender roles
    • memories of growing up
    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
    ATL000389
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    41:12
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    aknight
    July 15, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Joseph Brown, 29, talks to his mother Sybil Brown, 67, about her life growing up in rural Georgia, her education in Athens, GA., and her move to and life in Atlanta, GA.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Edison, GA
    • ESOL teacher
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBY005264
    Sherrilyn Adams and Stacee Adams
    39:58
    Sherrilyn Adams and Stacee Adams
    whenry-lester
    April 6, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Stacee interviews her mother about the time in her life when she was single and free.

    • Appearance
    • college
    • Elton John
    • Gloria Steinem
    • independence
    • line dancing
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Protests
    • Rebel
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • rock ‘n roll
    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
    MBX006939
    Allison Breininger and Barbara Resch
    37:58
    Allison Breininger and Barbara Resch
    estraight
    July 24, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Barbara Resch (61) interviews her daughter Allison Breininger (30) about motherhood and Allison’s adoption of a Hatian child.

    • Appearance
    • Beads
    • braids
    • career
    • college
    • Creole
    • Dancing
    • Earthquake
    • Embassy of the United States Port Au Prince Haiti
    • endometriosis
    • Fertility treatment
    • hair styles
    • Haiti
    • identification cards
    • In Vitro Fertilization
    LMN001224
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    45:35
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    Daniel Littlewood
    February 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Mitzi (84) and Elliott Faye (83) talk to their granddaughter Poppy Gordon (29) about their family background. They then tell stories about their times living in Europe.

    • Amsterdam
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Daimler-Benz
    • dry cleaning
    • europe
    • expat
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • fig tree
    • Germany
    • GI Bill
    • goat milk
    • Israel
    • Jaguar
    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
    DDC000783
    Meghan Stabler and Samir Luther
    46:35
    Meghan Stabler and Samir Luther
    Naomi Greene
    March 6, 2010 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Samir Luther (29) interviews his friend and colleague, Meghan Stabler (46) about her transition from male to female. Meghan also talks about being a parents and her work with Human Rights Campaign.

    • 9/11 attacks
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Hillary Clinton
    • Human Rights Campaign
    • marriage equality
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    • September 11, 2001
    • Sexual orientation
    MBX002021
    Alice Rapallo and Mark Alice Durant
    39:10
    Alice Rapallo and Mark Alice Durant
    Maddy Nussbaum
    October 26, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Alice Rapallo talks about living in Boston, raising kids, and being married to an alcoholic.

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Marines
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • prohibition
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Roosevelt
    • Spouse
    ATL000501
    Benjamin Carr and Jo Anne Patterson
    38:07
    Benjamin Carr and Jo Anne Patterson
    aknight
    September 30, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Benjamin Carr, 34, talks with his mother Jo Anne Patterson, 61, about his having cerebral palsy, how she and her ex husband managed to raise him so well, and the challenges they both face with disabilities

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Cerebral palsy
    • community worthies
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • Hearing loss
    • high I.Q.
    • illness
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    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
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