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    MBX004727
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
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    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Violet Hittle, 97, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Doreen Myers,50.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Bowling
    • card parties
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • German
    • Germany
    • Lifesavers
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBY000346
    Marylyn Weeks and Joan Mattelin
    00:00
    Marylyn Weeks and Joan Mattelin
    agoldman
    August 10, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A grandmother tells her granddaughter about growing up and her married life.

    • bar tender
    • buggy on roof
    • Business Owner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • John Deere
    • Masonic lodge
    • Telephone operator
    MBY001166
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    00:00
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    pkochhar
    February 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    son interivews his mom about how she single-handedly raised her three sons once her husband got very ill. until then she’d always been dependent on her husband. very nice interivew.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    SCK001846
    Christine Larson and Alexandra Larson
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    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
    wtc000266
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
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    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    cbancroft
    November 26, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    Three sisters interviewed by daughter/niece about growing up on a cattle ranch in south Texas as a Mexican-American family. Stories about their university educations, traditions, pranks, and life on the ranch.

    • Appearance
    • Cattle ranching
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dress-ups
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mexican-American
    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
    SCK000165
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    00:00
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 27, 2005 StoryKit

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family feuds
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    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
    MBY000852
    Noelle Hudson and Faye Hudson
    00:00
    Noelle Hudson and Faye Hudson
    kdimattia
    November 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Woman talks about her life in India and coming to America

    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBX004268
    Mary Grace and Bruce Butin
    01:19:23
    Mary Grace and Bruce Butin
    whenry-lester
    August 30, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Mary talks to her son Bruce about her life’s purpose to be a mother and to spread the message of honoring the divine feminine.

    • Accidents
    • birth of first child
    • ceremony
    • China
    • Divine Feminine
    • feminine
    • Feminism
    • Homosexuality
    • honor
    • hysterectomy
    • Jesus
    • journey
    • luck and fate
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • masculine
    DDD000405
    Jesse Lomelí and Marta Lomelí
    02:08:43
    Jesse Lomelí and Marta Lomelí
    Carolina Correa
    July 23, 2010 Door-to-Door Kit D

    Jesse Lomelí (66) and his sister Marta Lomelí (57) talk about when their family came to the United States from Mexico, the cultural difference at home and at school.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • August 11th 1954
    • Book
    • coach
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • English as a second language
    • ESl
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • father
    LMN001676
    Edward White, Evan White, and Rosina Conforti
    45:34
    Edward White, Evan White, and Rosina Conforti
    Cecilia Agudelo
    August 28, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Evan and Rosina Interview Edward White to know a little bit more about his background

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    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
    MBX003211
    Shirley Harrison and Elaine Wright
    39:28
    Shirley Harrison and Elaine Wright
    Quentin Weld
    October 22, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Shirley Harrison and her friend BLAH BLAH talk about Shirley’s several jobs and several names.

    • birth of first child
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Lance, Pierce, Louisville, Lynn’s Paradise Cafe, Altoids, Lexington, Tommy Jean, Rhodes Scholar, Robert Penn Warren, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ukelele, Labor Day, Hell’s Angels, Italy, Greece,
    • memories of growing up
    • motel room, funeral
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBX007807
    Barbara Altman and Jackie Sojico
    40:05
    Barbara Altman and Jackie Sojico
    Eloise Melzer
    March 9, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Facilitator Jackie Sojico, 23, interviews Barbara Altman, 67, about her father, Harold Alton Corbin.

    • 1984 Olympics
    • 4th of July
    • 50th high school reunions
    • Alma Ethel Newlin Corbin
    • Andy MacDonald
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Benjamin Alan Altman
    • Blizzards
    • bounty hunting
    • cemeteries
    • Cherokee heritage
    • classical guitarists
    • cleaning barns
    • college
    • country dances
    ATL000151
    Eugene  Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    40:02
    Eugene Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    aknight
    January 9, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Dale Hutchens, 53, interviews his father Eugune Hutchens, 80, about his life, his abiding interest in radio and his experiences growing up in a poor, sharecropping family

    • Alzheimers
    • amateur radio
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Church
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • Howard College
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    ATL000106
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    01:17:38
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    aknight
    December 5, 2009 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Ann Lombardi, 59, interviews her friend Anna Woo, 42, about her family’s immigration to the United States and her life here since that day in April 1976.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Atlanta Korean Community
    • Dry cleaners
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Korea
    • Korean
    • Korean American
    • Lockheed Martin
    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
    MBX006407
    Don Wilson and Lee Ann Marona
    40:27
    Don Wilson and Lee Ann Marona
    Sara Culver
    March 5, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Lee Ann Marona (45) talks with her father, Don Wilson (72) about his childhood, religious involvement, time spent in the Navy, and his work experiences.

    • Accidents
    • Alabama
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Army Reserve
    • Atlanta, GA
    • Atomic bomb
    • Avian Flu
    • Blakely, GA
    • Boot Camp
    • Boyette’s Department Store
    • Burn
    • captain
    • Chicago, IL
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    MBY006226
    Xavier  Sainz, Thais Saínz, and Nicole Di Rocco
    37:50
    Xavier Sainz, Thais Saínz, and Nicole Di Rocco
    Anna Walters
    February 22, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Nicole Di Rocca asks her parents about their recent family trip to Cuba and her parents’ immigration from Cuba over 40 years ago.

    • almendares
    • bay of pigs invasion
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cuban
    • Cuban Revolution
    • Cuban-American
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • exile
    • Exodus
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    MBX004578
    James Desjardin and Gertrude Desjardin
    01:01:48
    James Desjardin and Gertrude Desjardin
    Nina Porzucki
    November 9, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    James Desjardin, 83, is interviewed by his wife, Gertrude Desjardin, 77, about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Apollo Moon Mission
    • Apple II Computer
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Electrical Engineer
    • Excel
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Fat Mac
    • Great Depression stories
    • Honeywell
    MBX007290
    John Balthrop and Sheila Michel
    36:58
    John Balthrop and Sheila Michel
    Jorge Rios
    October 15, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    John Edward Balthrop, 91, talks to his daughter Sheila Michel, 52, about his military career, his wife, and his medical career.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • being in war
    • beliefs on war
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Death of a spouse
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family poems
    • family practitioners
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • fellow soldiers
    • Great Depression stories
    LMN002338
    Thomas Shea, Frank Shea, Eric Munson, and Kathy Shea
    01:24:09
    Thomas Shea, Frank Shea, Eric Munson, and Kathy Shea
    Daniel Littlewood
    November 12, 2010 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    The Shea siblings (Kathy Shea (52), Thomas Shea (54), and Frank Shea (48)) and Kathy’s husband Eric Munson (49) come together to talk about the two people they lost on 9/11/01, Danny Shea and Joe Shea.

    • 9/11/2001
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bond brokers
    • Bond traders
    • Cantor-Fitzgerald
    • clubbing/bars
    • college
    • Eulogy
    • expense accounts
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Fat Boys
    MBY005691
    Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
    40:20
    Marie Hinton and Donna Gershten
    whenry-lester
    September 9, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Marie tells her daughter, Donna, stories of her childhood and family in North Carolina.

    • Charleston
    • Church
    • college
    • Confederate
    • Confederate soldier
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • Epilepsy
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • House
    • illness
    • Kitchen
    SFB000213
    Janet Frost and Daniel Frost
    01:21:53
    Janet Frost and Daniel Frost
    Frank Kingman
    March 1, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Dan interviews his mother Janet about her childhood, immigrating to the United States from Italy and settling in Chicago.

    • Accidents
    • black market
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • commercial laundries
    • Elevated trains, Chicago
    • Hebrew classes
    • historical events/people
    • Humboldt Park, Chicago
    • Influential People
    • Injuries
    • Italy
    • James Frost
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • news stands
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