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    MBX000407
    Saul P. Arsht and Michelle Stiennon
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    Saul P. Arsht and Michelle Stiennon
    cbancroft
    August 12, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Saul talks about growing up in Detroit, his childhood memories, and working in the junkyard business.

    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Salesmen
    • schoolyard games
    MBY004955
    Keith Hinton and Diane Raab
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    Keith Hinton and Diane Raab
    cscott
    January 17, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Keith Hinton (21) is interviewed by his teacher Diane Raab (44). Keith shares the memories of his school days and the challenges and joys of growing up blind. He also discusses the trails and tribulations of his first love.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • blindness, blind education, braille, visual aides, mobility classes, first love, prom, self-doubts, hearsay, rumors, slacking, auditory learning
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    MBY005166
    DeAnne  Hart and Fred  Mindlin
    00:00
    DeAnne Hart and Fred Mindlin
    Jeremy Helton
    March 14, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    DeAnne Hart (78) and Fred Mindlin (64) talk about the founding and history of the Pajaro Valley Arts Council.

    • Accessibility
    • Alberta
    • Alyce Vestel
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Art Museum of Santa Cruz
    • Arts education
    • Cabrillo College
    • California
    • Canada
    • Carol Trengove
    • carving
    • Chamber of Commerce
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Dairy Shoe
    MBX001116
    Mary Hunt Patterson and Libby Egnor
    00:00
    Mary Hunt Patterson and Libby Egnor
    Nadja Middleton
    March 3, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Libby interviews her mother, Mary, about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    MBX004348
    Stephanie Schamess and Rebecca  Flowers Schamess
    00:00
    Stephanie Schamess and Rebecca Flowers Schamess
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    September 15, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Stephanie tells stories of her big and dramatic family.

    • Al
    • American Idol
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • argentina
    • blacksmith
    • Bob
    • Columbia Records
    • Facebook
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • Family life
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    LMN001211
    Stacey Rees and Erik Huber
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    Stacey Rees and Erik Huber
    cscott
    February 13, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Stacey Rees (42) is interviewed by her partner Erik Huber (47). They discuss Stacey’s life and that of their child Huckleberry.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Sharing life, Huckleberry, midwifery, nursing, dreams for children, teenage years, rebellion, hippies, Paris, Art history, runaways, teaching, jealousy, consumerism, sexuality
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBY004731
    Jennifer Nuchia and Stephen Nuchia
    00:00
    Jennifer Nuchia and Stephen Nuchia
    cscott
    November 13, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Jennifer Colleen Nuchia (33) and her husband Stephen Nuchia (47) sit to talk about the loss of Jennifer’s daughter India to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and its effect on her family and their marriage.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • family feuds
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, SIDS, Medieval times, spousal abuse, childhood trauma, police chaplin, first love, books, worried parents
    MBY002429
    Cathy M.  Breaux and Autumn dela Houssaye
    00:00
    Cathy M. Breaux and Autumn dela Houssaye
    Kamilah Duggins
    February 10, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Cathy reminisces on her life as a young woman discovering the world around her.

    • Abbaville, LA
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • commune living
    • Dysfunctional Family
    • finding oneself
    • Hitchhiking
    • life on the road
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • outcast
    • personal experiences
    GRB000296
    Marguerite Brown and Micheline Brown
    00:00
    Marguerite Brown and Micheline Brown
    John White
    July 4, 2007 Griot Booth

    Marguerite Brown is interviewed by her granddaugter Micheline Brown about her life, her work and family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bethel AME
    • Detroit, MI
    • Dickie Adams
    • Diet
    • Donald Brown
    • Henry Brown Jr.
    • Henry Brown Sr.
    • Hyde Park
    • Idlewild Summer Resort
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • real estate agents
    • Spouse
    • travel agents
    MBY000869
    Gael Downs Hancock and Karen DiMattia
    00:00
    Gael Downs Hancock and Karen DiMattia
    kdimattia
    December 7, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Woman talks about mixed feelings of getting in touch with biological family

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • scattering ashes
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    mby008160
    Linda Tirico and Erin Dickey
    24:41
    Linda Tirico and Erin Dickey
    Rose Kue
    August 8, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Linda Tirico (57) speaks with Erin Dickey, Facilitator, about the progress of her work life and her current unemployment. Her theme was to discuss who she is today.

    • Ageism
    • Appearance
    • Boyfriend
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • work space, hardhat, etc. decorations
    MBX006023
    Doris Chesson and Camille Gendell
    34:18
    Doris Chesson and Camille Gendell
    Lilly Sullivan
    November 2, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Camille Gendell (67) interviews her mother Doris Chesson (92) about her life in Norfolk.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Berkeley
    • birth of first child
    • churches
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Cuba
    • Dating
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • hospitas
    • Kennedy’s assassination
    • Knight family
    LMN000075
    Jeannette Remak and Rachel Falcone
    38:49
    Jeannette Remak and Rachel Falcone
    Quentin Weld
    January 29, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Jeanette Remak talks about her sister Mary Remak, who was a victim of the 1993 World Trade Center Attack.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Convent
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Greyhound
    • historical events/people
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • mental illness
    • Nun
    • personal experiences
    • Port Authority
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX007547
    Karl Friedman and Maurice Shevin
    39:31
    Karl Friedman and Maurice Shevin
    Jackie Sojico
    January 7, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Karl Friedman (86) is interviewed by his colleague and friend Maurice Shevin (58) about his involvement in the Jewish community and Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunt Sid
    • Bobby Kennedy
    • Bubba Friedman
    • college
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • harrassment
    • historical events/people
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • law school
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    SFB000790
    Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra
    01:18:48
    Jessie Lorenz and Amber DiPietra
    Rose Arrieta
    April 29, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Amber DiPietra, 29, and Jessie Lorenz, 31, talk about their visual impairments, and how they navigate the world.

    • Americans with Disabilities Act
    • Appearance
    • Arthritis
    • blind
    • blindness, visual impairment, disability
    • Childhood disease
    • community worthies
    • convalescent homes
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Disability
    • Disability community
    • Durango, Colorado
    • grade school
    • Great grandparents
    • independent living
    SCK002078
    Barbara Sommer and Deanne Sommer
    45:52
    Barbara Sommer and Deanne Sommer
    No Facilitator
    June 24, 2010 StoryKit

    Life experiences of 77-year-old mother, wife and woman.

    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    • Softball
    • Spouse
    MBY006855
    Theresa Lothspeich and Sylvan Loegering
    01:21:09
    Theresa Lothspeich and Sylvan Loegering
    Eloise Melzer
    August 23, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Theresa Lothspeich, 76, talks with brother Sylvan Loegering, 71, about their memories of growing up on a farm with 12 other siblings.

    • 1/4 of land
    • 14 child families
    • 50th wedding anniversaries
    • acres
    • Agnes Mikesh
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Angela Olson
    • Annette Bruns
    • Arla Whittich
    • artisan wells
    • barley farming
    • Barns
    • Benson, ND
    • butchering
    • Canning
    MBY006212
    Angie Apodaca and Cynthia Apodaca
    42:55
    Angie Apodaca and Cynthia Apodaca
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    February 19, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Angie Apodaca (74) talks with her daughter Cynthia Apodaca (47) about losing her son Eric to HIV/AIDS.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cemetery traditions
    • community worthies
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • gay
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • Injuries
    • Las Memorias Project
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • Prejudice
    MBX007090
    Earl Elliott and C. Elliott
    36:34
    Earl Elliott and C. Elliott
    Jorge Rios
    August 28, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Earl S. Elliott, Jr., 84, talks to his grandson C. Nathan Elliott, 31, about his family history and his life.

    • academic counseling
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • graduate school
    • historical events/people
    • Money
    • Penn State University
    • personal experiences
    • Physical Education
    • railroad engine drivers
    LMN001519
    Fred Gonzalez, Alex Leguillow, and Jalylah Burrell
    01:14:16
    Fred Gonzalez, Alex Leguillow, and Jalylah Burrell
    Jalylah Burrell
    May 14, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Fred Gonzalez, Jr., 27, and Alex Leguillow, 63, remember Alex’s nephew and Fred’s brother Nestor A. Cintron III, a Cantor Fitzgerald broker who was killed on September 11, 2001 in the World Trade Center attacks.

    • 9/11
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cantor Fitzgerald
    • Colgate University
    • college
    • family in-jokes
    • Lower East Side
    • Martial arts
    • memories of growing up
    • North Tower
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    • World Trade Center
    • World Trade Center 1993 Bombing
    MBY006289
    Alfonso Garcia and Renee Sanchez, ESQ.
    18:34
    Alfonso Garcia and Renee Sanchez, ESQ.
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 8, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Alfonso Castillo Garcia (84) talks with his granddaughter Renee Sanchez (36) about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • brick layer
    • construction
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • labor movements and unions
    • Local 300
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • picket lines
    • political beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    dtd000149
    Davin Garcia, Dylan Garcia, Deborah Garcia, and Maddy Nussbaum
    54:47
    Davin Garcia, Dylan Garcia, Deborah Garcia, and Maddy Nussbaum
    jrandolph
    December 1, 2006 Door-To-Door (2006-2007)

    Two brothers, ages 9 and 13, remember their father who died on 9-11-01

    • 9-11-01
    • Blindness
    • Camping
    • Childhood Games
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    • repair
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    MBX002080
    Pauline Kreider and Brian Kreider
    37:20
    Pauline Kreider and Brian Kreider
    jengle
    November 9, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Pauline Kreider talks about WWII.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of growing up
    • Pensylvannia
    • personal experiences
    • Separation
    • Spouse
    • War rationing
    • WII
    MBY000186
    Jack Campion and Susan Campion
    36:48
    Jack Campion and Susan Campion
    agoldman
    July 2, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Jack talks with his daughter about his small-town childhood, his work in finance, and his thoughts about his future.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • clown, finance
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • getting older, being single
    • illness
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    • volunteer work with elderly
    ATL000394
    Mark  Richards and Sarah Richards
    37:24
    Mark Richards and Sarah Richards
    aknight
    July 17, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Mark Richards, 31, talks to his wife Sarah Richards, 30, about his birth in Colombia, his adoption, growing up in New Jersey, their meeting, marriage and new-born baby.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Hanukkah
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
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