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    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
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    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
    Brianna Hyneman
    November 23, 2007 Griot Booth

    Akiba Shabazz talks with her daughters Naja and Zuri about her life growing up with her parents in Memphis, her marriages and travels.

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • colon cancer
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • France
    • Influential People
    • Italy
    • memories of growing up
    • Muslim
    • Nightclubs
    • novels
    • personal experiences
    • racist killing
    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)
    • Camp Fire USA (2008)
    • 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
    MBX003906
    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
    sck001263
    Rose Eleanor  Schultz, Anne Marie Weitzel, and Martha Rose Martone
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    Rose Eleanor Schultz, Anne Marie Weitzel, and Martha Rose Martone
    September 30, 2008 StoryKit

    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX005185
    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
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    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    April 18, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bernard Scott Rush, 68, by his daughter, Nicole Rush (Maat Free), 35, about growing up in Mississippi then moving to New York City.

    • African heritage
    • Ancestors
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Choktaw words
    • Cotton gin
    • Cotton picking
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Emmett Till
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Harlem, NY
    • Lynching
    ATD000341
    Saralyn Chesnut and Lorraine Fontana
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    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
    • Charis Books (2011)
    • 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
    NYD000005
    Rosann Sinti and Rosamund  Looney
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    Rosann Sinti and Rosamund Looney
    John White
    July 15, 2009 New York Door-To-Door

    Rosann Sinti is interview by Rosamund Looney about growing up in Soho as a child, her family’s ethnic. background, work, and her son and daughter.

    • Appearance
    • Broome Street
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Greenwich Village
    • Lower East Side Family Union (2009)
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New York city
    • Paper Box Factory
    • personal experiences
    • push cart vendors
    • Salesmen
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    • Thompson Street
    MBY006260
    Jose Barrios Ureño and Cindy Mosqueda
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    Jose Barrios Ureño and Cindy Mosqueda
    Jorge Rios
    March 1, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Jose Barrios Ureño, 89, habla con su nieta Cindy Mosqueda, 29, sobre su niñez en México, su migración a los Estados Unidos, sus orgullos y su familia. [Jose Barrios Ureño, 89, talks to his granddaughter Cindy Mosqueda, 29, about his...

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bracero Program
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    SFB001161
    Eve Roberts and Patty Siskind
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    Eve Roberts and Patty Siskind
    Liam Pierce
    January 20, 2011 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Eve Roberts (81) by Patty Siskind (60) about Eve’s life pursuing theater, and general life appreciation.

    • Appearance
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    GCT003419
    Jim Curtis and Anna Zolner
    01:20:45
    Jim Curtis and Anna Zolner
    awright
    December 9, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    daughter interviews her father about his life

    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • father’s store
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Proposing
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Wishes for daughter
    • wishes for grandchildren
    SCK000660
    Gerda Miele, Kathrina Proscia, and Joanne Abbate
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    Gerda Miele, Kathrina Proscia, and Joanne Abbate
    No Facilitator
    May 11, 2007 StoryKit

    • birth of first child
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • Spouse
    MBX003216
    Janis Bell , Laura Hill, Patti Bell, and Linda Bell
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    Janis Bell , Laura Hill, Patti Bell, and Linda Bell
    Quentin Weld
    October 24, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Janis Bell talks with her three daughters, Patti, Linda and Laura, about her childhood, attending seminary, and raising her daughters.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    GCT004848
    Sidonia L. Singer and Abraham Singer
    38:11
    Sidonia L. Singer and Abraham Singer
    Toccarra Thomas
    March 22, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Sidonia L. Singer talks with grandson, Abraham Singer, about her experience growing up in Czechoslovakia, during the time of Hitler’s extermination of the Jews.

    • Alex
    • Auschwitz
    • Columbia
    • Czechoslovakia
    • Dachau (Division #11)
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Hebrew
    • historical events/people
    • Hungarian
    • memories of growing up
    • Nazi German Concentration Camp
    • Olga
    • Rabbi
    • Spouse
    • Sukah
    MBX004754
    Robert Morris and Robert Morris
    01:16:16
    Robert Morris and Robert Morris
    Nina Porzucki
    January 7, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Robert N. Morris, 82, is interviewed by his son, Robert “Myke” Morris, 54.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • dairy farms
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • First National Bank of Tampa
    • Florida
    • Florida Agriculture Hall of Fame
    • Florida College
    • Glasgow, KY
    • Hillsborough County
    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
    GCT002473
    Rita Casteline and Michele R. Wells
    01:15:06
    Rita Casteline and Michele R. Wells
    cbancroft
    January 22, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Rita (85) was interviewed by her granddaughter Michele (29) about her childhood in New Jersey, her marriage, and her advice for her grandchildren.

    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of growing up
    • Paterson, NJ;
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY007495
    Jessica Zaffarano and Shelly Mariposa
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    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
    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
    ATL000389
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    41:12
    Sybil Brown and Joseph Brown
    aknight
    July 15, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Joseph Brown, 29, talks to his mother Sybil Brown, 67, about her life growing up in rural Georgia, her education in Athens, GA., and her move to and life in Atlanta, GA.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Edison, GA
    • ESOL teacher
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    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
    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
    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
    MBY007763
    Margo Frank and Lily Caravello
    40:28
    Margo Frank and Lily Caravello
    ecohen
    April 28, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Margo Frank (63) tells her daughter Lily Caravello (33) about finding out that she had an older sister.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Date rape
    • Dayton, Ohio
    • family feuds
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • homes for unwed mothers
    • Jewish identity
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Pregnancy
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    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
    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
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