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    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
    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
    GRB000611
    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
    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
    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
    MBY005289
    Harvey Cahoon and Jann Cahoon
    32:59
    Harvey Cahoon and Jann Cahoon
    Anna Walters
    April 11, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Jann Cahoon (37) interviews her uncle, Harvey Cahoon (63) about the family brick business.

    • apprenticeships
    • beehive kiln
    • Bishop Pearson
    • brick making
    • brick press
    • brick yard
    • college
    • common brick
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • extrusion bricks
    • face brick
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    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
    ATD000339
    Debra Taylor and Eric Taylor
    01:17:04
    Debra Taylor and Eric Taylor
    Amanda Plumb
    April 12, 2011 Atlanta Door-To-Door

    Debra Taylor (59) tell her son Eric Taylor (28)

    • Algiers, New Orleans
    • Althea Joseph White
    • Bauder Fashion College
    • Carnival
    • Charis Books (2011)
    • Charis Books and More
    • davis
    • Ellenwood, GA
    • family feuds
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • George
    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
    MBX004657
    Paul Zorn, Sarah Zorn, and Martha Zorn
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    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
    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
    MBY007000
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey  Adamson
    01:19:24
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey Adamson
    Dana Glass
    September 26, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lyndsey Adamson (16) interviews her grandmother Judy Hultquist (65) about raising children and her memories of Lyndsey’s childhood.

    • Abortion
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunts
    • Babies
    • birth of first child
    • California
    • Catholic
    • Chemotherapy
    • Democratic
    • discipline
    • Falling
    • family in-jokes
    • Fighting
    • First day of school
    • Grandmother
    MBY006260
    Jose Barrios Ureño and Cindy Mosqueda
    40:53
    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
    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
    NYD000005
    Rosann Sinti and Rosamund  Looney
    36:59
    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
    DDC000507
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    38:18
    Robert Tainsh and Cynthia Tainsh
    Kate Brown
    February 25, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Cynthia Tainsh (50) talks with her husband, Robert Tainsh (49), about moving to Florida from New England and their experiences having twins and then triplets.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • anesthesiology
    • birth of first child
    • child delivery
    • cleft palette
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Florida Hospital
    • Florida Hospital (2009)
    • Furniture
    • Golden Retriever
    • Harvard
    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
    • 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
    SFB001161
    Eve Roberts and Patty Siskind
    45:43
    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
    MBX003216
    Janis Bell , Laura Hill, Patti Bell, and Linda Bell
    36:33
    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
    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
    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
    MBY004853
    Evelyn Bersh and Paul Tumarkin
    42:54
    Evelyn Bersh and Paul Tumarkin
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    December 12, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Evelyn tells stories about her love of the piano, her life running a store supported by the mob, and her perspective on herself as a queen.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Barack Obama
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • gambler
    • George Bush
    • Jewish
    • Kosher
    • Liquor
    • memories of growing up
    • mOb
    • Music
    • New Jersey
    • personal experiences
    • piano
    GCT003350
    Zoe Mizuho and Hugh Ryan
    01:15:30
    Zoe Mizuho and Hugh Ryan
    Ryan Murdock
    November 14, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Zoe tells Hugh about his quest for self-naming and his choice to identify as a man.

    • Appearance
    • Civil liberties
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Jewish culture
    • self naming
    • Sexual orientation
    • transsexuality
    LMN002644
    Cecilia Barretto, Andria Spinks, and Suzie Flores
    01:22:15
    Cecilia Barretto, Andria Spinks, and Suzie Flores
    Tomas Rios
    May 26, 2011 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Andria Spinks and Suzie Flores interview Cecilia Barretto. They discuss Cecilia’s childhood, family and life lessons.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Caldwell College
    • college
    • conga drums
    • family feuds
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    LMN001224
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    45:35
    Marian (Mitzi) Faye, Elliott Faye, and Poppy Gordon
    Daniel Littlewood
    February 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Mitzi (84) and Elliott Faye (83) talk to their granddaughter Poppy Gordon (29) about their family background. They then tell stories about their times living in Europe.

    • Amsterdam
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Daimler-Benz
    • dry cleaning
    • europe
    • expat
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • fig tree
    • Germany
    • GI Bill
    • goat milk
    • Israel
    • Jaguar
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