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    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    01:16:47
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    Kate Wingate
    July 30, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Larry tells Martha about his family and the impact his father and uncle had on his life.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Boxing
    • Childhood Games
    • Circus
    • Clinton, MI
    • clubbing/bars
    • De Molay
    • Deleon, TX
    • Edwin Bledsoe Keyes
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
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    Marion Kaslon, Karen Schlam, and Terri Gilbert
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    Marion Kaslon, Karen Schlam, and Terri Gilbert
    Brianna Hyneman
    June 29, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Marion Kaslon talks to her daughters, Karen Schlam and Terri Gilbert, about her family history in Brooklyn, her father’s business savvy and meeting and marrying their father.

    • Austria
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Business School
    • Childhood Games
    • clubbing/bars
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • dry goods store
    • E. Side Drive
    • Ellis Island
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • FDR Drive
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    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
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    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    Michelle Swinehart
    February 9, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Karen Cathers tells her kids, Nikki Pison, Justin Peone, Christina Pappalardo about her childhood growing up with Communist parents during the Cold War, marrying an older man when she was 17, and feeling determined to be a “perfect” mother for...

    • 4th Grade
    • birth of first child
    • capitalism
    • Childhood Games
    • Communism
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • May Day Parade
    • memories of former times
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    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    02:41:27
    Richard DeVenezia and Debra DeVenezia Faherty
    mramberg
    July 31, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    father tells daughter about growing up near an amusement park; daughter remembers commuting to WTC on 9/11/01

    • Childhood Games
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
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    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    01:19:35
    Theresa Hogan and Maureen Schlacter
    Martha O'Brien
    May 14, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Theresa Hogan tells memories of her happy life growing up in Canada to her daughter, Maureen Schlater.

    • bikes
    • birth of first child
    • card parties
    • Childhood Games
    • Dancing
    • Detroit, MI
    • family trips and excursions
    • fiance
    • Great Depression stories
    • Great grandchildren
    • hopscotch
    • James W. Hogan WWII Pacific
    • Memories of Children
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up

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