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    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
    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
    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
    ATL000101
    Sarah  Withers  and Debbie  Withers
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    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
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    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
    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
    MBX005978
    Zand Bakhtiari and Rosemary Bakhtiari
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    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
    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
    MBY004841
    William deAlva and Marti de Alva
    39:32
    William deAlva and Marti de Alva
    Sara Esrick
    December 8, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Marti interviewed her dad about his work life.

    • Black Labor Battalion
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Denver
    • leukemia
    • Los Alamos
    • Los Angeles
    • Luis De Alva
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Rudy Velasco
    • San Francisco
    • school day memories
    • Skiing
    • 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
    MBY001979
    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
    00:00
    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
    Ryan Murdock
    September 3, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Amy talks with her mother, Dolly, about growing up on a farm in North Dakota.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • dollhouse
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Outhouse
    • personal experiences
    • piano
    • ritual foods
    • school day memories
    LMN001160
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    00:00
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    Nzingha Garner
    January 31, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Maureen Mahoney, 70, was interviewed by her daughter, Tracey Merritt, 44, about growing up in New York City.

    • Aunt Tini
    • Central Park
    • Childhood Games
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Hicksville
    • memories of growing up
    • Movies
    • Music
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • St. Paul the Apostle School
    MBY003050
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    42:31
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    Rachel Falcone
    July 27, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Shelia asked her husband Tom about growing up in Butte, working in the mines, and his family.

    • ACM
    • Anaconda Copper Mining Company
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Butte mines
    • Childhood Games
    • columbia gardens
    • confrontation
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drift
    • Family Traditions
    • mine shaft
    • mining
    • mucking
    • Nature’s Remedy
    • NR
    MBY003117
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    39:18
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    Daniel Littlewood
    August 17, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mutt Murray talks to his neighbor Sam Schropp about growing up with horses, farming with his family, and learning to fly small planes.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cache Valley, Utah
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drilling
    • family trips and excursions
    • horse riding
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • milk factory
    • mutt and jeff
    • Olaf Nelson
    • paved roads
    • peaches
    • Richmond, Utah
    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
    MBX004658
    Angelo Kachulis and Nick Kachulis
    41:38
    Angelo Kachulis and Nick Kachulis
    whenry-lester
    December 1, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Nick interviews his father about growing up in Brooklyn and his life experiences.

    • Amos and Andy
    • Angela Lansbury
    • Bill Donovan
    • Bing Crosby
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • clubbing/bars
    • Dodgers
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • FDR
    • General Stillwell
    • Giants
    • Greece
    MBX000908
    Marilyn Nolan and Scott Nolan
    01:16:01
    Marilyn Nolan and Scott Nolan
    mtivnan
    January 5, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Marilyn remembers her daughter Renee who passed away.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brain tumor
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dying
    • family heroes
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Saturday Night Live
    • Spouse
    • watching and listening habits
    MBY007402
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    33:50
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    Beatriz Colonia
    January 17, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Augustus S Feather Jr (99) talks with his daughter Bette DeGraw (64) about his childhood, work, and meeting his wife Margarette.

    • Childhood Games
    • childhood mischief
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • friends
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Jersey
    • personal experiences
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Plants
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Uncles
    DDD000263
    Orsini González and Ysabel González
    40:03
    Orsini González and Ysabel González
    Yazmín Peña
    October 1, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit D

    Dr. Orsini Gonzáles (60) tells his daughter, Ysabel Y. González (29) how his parents met in Puerto Rico, about growing up in the South Bronx in the ‘60s, and how he met his wife, Ysabel’s mother.

    • 296 Fifth Avenue
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Antonia Pantojo
    • ASPIRA
    • Binghamton University
    • birth of first child
    • Bryant Avenue and 174th Street
    • Carlos
    • Childhood Games
    • City College of New York
    • college
    • Dean Doris Cintron
    • family in-jokes
    • family trips and excursions
    • Guanica
    MBX007892
    William Creasy and Susan Creasy
    34:30
    William Creasy and Susan Creasy
    Beatriz Colonia
    March 28, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

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

    • Allowance
    • beach houses
    • Childhood Games
    • Chores
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Marbles
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • North Carolina
    • personal experiences
    • playing marbles
    • Railroad
    • sailboats
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