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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
    00:00
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    MBX000407
    Saul P. Arsht and Michelle Stiennon
    00:00
    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
    MBX000596
    Ed Reggi and Scott Emanuel
    01:27:01
    Ed Reggi and Scott Emanuel
    Nick Yulman
    September 25, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Scott interivews his partner Ed about teaching improvisation and their relationship.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • animal rescue
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • Hanukkah
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • park rangers
    • Parties
    • personal experiences
    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
    MBX000940
    Antony Markantonatos and Antoinette Radice
    01:15:08
    Antony Markantonatos and Antoinette Radice
    mtivnan
    January 12, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cape town
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dolphins
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    • South Africa
    • Spouse
    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
    MBY004043
    LeLand Holstine, Leah Holstine, and Eric Holstine
    35:13
    LeLand Holstine, Leah Holstine, and Eric Holstine
    Rachel Falcone
    May 25, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    LeLand and Leah Holstine talk with their son Eric about meeting, their respective careers, raising Eric and about Eric’s children Topher and Anna.

    • Agriculture
    • Butte, MT
    • Canada
    • Childhood Games
    • Conrad, MT
    • conservation movements
    • conservation programs
    • Dairy
    • DeMoley
    • Eagle, ID
    • Family Traditions
    • Farming
    • Fort Benton, MT
    • Future Farmers of America
    • Gas prices
    GCT001581
    Martin Kalfus and Ken Kalfus
    01:24:53
    Martin Kalfus and Ken Kalfus
    skramer
    June 10, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Ken Kalfus interviews his father Martin about growing up in the bronx, his time in the army during WWII, and different businesses afterwards.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Grand Central Terminal
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBX002819
    Stella M. Chickering and Chickering Fran
    32:33
    Stella M. Chickering and Chickering Fran
    Naomi Greene
    July 13, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Fran interviews her mother, Stella, on her birthday. Stella talks about her earliest memories and growing up on a farm.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Hartford, Vermont
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Sing Through My Heart
    DDB000452
    Paul Nussbaum and Connie Evans
    41:43
    Paul Nussbaum and Connie Evans
    Kate Brown
    May 28, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit B

    Connie Evans (48) interviews coworker Dr. Paul Nussbaum (62) about his parents’ immigration from Poland, growing up Orthodox Jewish in Brooklyn, becoming a doctor, and raising a family.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Anthrax
    • Artist
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Displaced Persons Camp
    • Doctor
    • fabric
    • family members in history
    • Field Hockey
    • Griffin Hospital
    SCK001790
    Donald Chronister, Eric Chronister, and Karyn Alfonso
    28:52
    Donald Chronister, Eric Chronister, and Karyn Alfonso
    October 28, 2009 StoryKit

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBX006697
    Nancy Bernotaitis and Melissa Lemmon
    40:03
    Nancy Bernotaitis and Melissa Lemmon
    whenry-lester
    May 12, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Nancy and Melissa talk about being the parents of autistic sons.

    • Aba
    • ADD
    • Appearance
    • aspergers
    • Autism Society
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • Dayton, OH
    • delay
    • Development
    • Diagnosis
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • Family Traditions
    • Floor Time
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