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    SPP000116
    Annette Bernstein and Elizabeth Bernstein
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    Annette Bernstein and Elizabeth Bernstein
    Kayvon Bahramian
    February 18, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Great Depression stories
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    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
    MBX004373
    Kenneth Lynch and Kathleen  Wright
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    Kenneth Lynch and Kathleen Wright
    Nina Porzucki
    September 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Kathleen Wright, 41, interviews her father Kenneth Lynch, 67, about his childhood.

    • City of Baltimore Housing Authority
    • college
    • Daniel Brewster
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • Godwin
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Poly High School
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • University of Maryland
    • Westingham Electronics
    MBX004651
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
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    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    Nina Porzucki
    November 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edward Guczek, 87, is interviewed by his granddaughter, Jennifer Sawyer, 21, about his life.

    • 1935 Ford
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Butterfly Ballroom
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Commerce High School
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Diabetic
    • Dialysis
    • Eddie’s Service Station
    • Elmer’s Tune
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Lebanese
    • Lincoln Zephyr
    • memories of former times
    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)
    • 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
    spp000962
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
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    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    rpeltzman
    December 23, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    Retired FDNY speaks about experiences in the fire department

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    SFB000394
    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
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    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
    Frank Kingman
    July 5, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Joyce Hayes, 64, talks with her friend Tanene, 28, about growing up in Chicago and her involvement with social work, education and politics.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chicago IL
    • college
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • John F. Kennedy
    • Mayor Richard Daley (Chicago)
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    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
    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
    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
    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
    SFB000732
    Christina Montgomery and Eloise Melzer
    01:21:43
    Christina Montgomery and Eloise Melzer
    Alex Lyon
    March 18, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Christina Mongomery (25) talks to facilitator Eloise Melzer (29) about being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 2 years ago and how it has affected her life.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • FABLED ASP
    • illness
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • mental illness
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Sexual orientation
    • Spouse
    MBX003380
    John Boniello and Louise Prairie
    01:09:02
    John Boniello and Louise Prairie
    Soo Na Pak
    January 10, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Louise Prairie interviews John Boniello, her father, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He talks about growing up on his family’s farm in upstate New York; driving a tractor trailer at age 13 from upstate to NYC to deliver...

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Boca Raton, Florida
    • Boniello Homes
    • Canada
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Ex-Lax
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • football scholarship
    • Fort Lauderdale, Florida
    GCT002346
    Elizabeth Misko and Marsha Fulton
    01:17:14
    Elizabeth Misko and Marsha Fulton
    rshankar
    December 7, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    80 year old woman is interviewed by her 44 year old daughter about her family, career in nursing, and her Catholic faith.

    • aging; widowhood
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • cemetery traditions
    • college
    • Cortland, NY
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • grave stones
    • Influential People
    • library; Wilmington, NC; Coastal Carolina University
    • memories of growing up
    • Nursing education; Teaching
    • personal experiences
    • pets; grandchildren
    SFD000142
    George Gingerelli and George Gingerelli
    42:30
    George Gingerelli and George Gingerelli
    Eloise Melzer
    May 19, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    George M. Gingerelli, 66, talks with his father George J. Gingerelli, 92, about his love of art and his family.

    • Aegis of Las Vegas
    • Alio Delmolino
    • American Printing
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • art schools
    • Betty Grigarauskas
    • Bloomingdale Court
    • California
    • Carmella Dautoff
    • Chelsea Miller
    • Cheryl Miller
    • Christmas Traditions
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Daw” Scano
    • Drawings
    GRS000672
    Sylverna Ford and Carlissa N. Graham
    38:50
    Sylverna Ford and Carlissa N. Graham
    Sarah Geis
    November 14, 2007 Griot Site-Based

    Carlissia, 21, interviews Sylverna, 57, about growing up in Virginia and Baltimore during the Civil Rights Movement, her interest in libraries, becoming Dean of Libraries at the University of Memphis, and the problems facing African Americans today.

    • African American voting
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Baltimore, MD
    • Black panthers
    • Church
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dean of Libraries
    • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assasination
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Farmville, VA
    • historical events/people
    • Integration
    SFB000470
    Patrick Donohew and R. Lena Richardson
    01:20:27
    Patrick Donohew and R. Lena Richardson
    Frank Kingman
    August 23, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Patrick Donohew, 43, talks with facilitator R. Lena Richardson, 33, about his friend, Jane Bresnick, who recently passed away. Patrick and Jane were lovers of StoryCorps and had planned to come for an interview together before her death.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bard College
    • Bay Area Young Survivors (cancer support group)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • community worthies
    • Dancing
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • Jane Bresnick
    • Jefferson Elementary School, San Francisco
    • memories of former times
    • Mission District, San Francisco
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    LMN001459
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    01:17:50
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    cscott
    April 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Martin Blank (72) is interviewed by his friend Jairo Alcantara (17). Martin discusses with Jairo the vast differences between being homosexual when he was young and being homosexual now.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Coming Out
    • Commitment
    • Community support
    • Denial
    • dysfunctional families
    • family feuds
    • Family Traditions
    • fantasies
    • flamboyance
    • gay high schools
    • Gay Relationships
    • Homosexuality
    • Influential People
    MBX001432
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    01:16:00
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    Nadja Middleton
    May 28, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    The family talks about their father/ grandfather/ great grandfather who is nearly 100 years old.

    • Aliyah (Israel)
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Courtesy
    • Creativity
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • employee loyalty
    • family hotel
    • Family reunions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • Miami
    • Money
    • Mottos
    • personal experiences
    MBX005856
    Richard Brinn and Andrea Brinn Wolfe
    38:55
    Richard Brinn and Andrea Brinn Wolfe
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    September 26, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Richard Brian, 63, by his daughter, Andrea Brinn Wolfe, 33, about being an artist and a father.

    • Art Cislo
    • Art teacher
    • Artist
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Colors
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • figure drawing
    • memories of growing up
    • Michigan Gallery
    • personal experiences
    SFD000257
    Yvonne Rodriguez and Jesús Pando
    01:20:44
    Yvonne Rodriguez and Jesús Pando
    Carolina Correa
    October 2, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    Friends Yvonne Rodriguez (47) and Jesús Pando (54) talk about going to college in their 30s, majoring in Physics, their ethnic backgrounds and their family.

    • Academic life
    • Achievements
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Chicana
    • Chicano
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • Guilt
    • Master
    • memories of former times
    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
    GCT001588
    Frank Vincent Iudica, Lucia Maria Affi Iudica, Carla Iudica-Souza, and Paula Iudica-Costa
    01:23:11
    Frank Vincent Iudica, Lucia Maria Affi Iudica, Carla Iudica-Souza, and Paula Iudica-Costa
    jangelos
    June 11, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Duaghters Interview Father and Mother for Father’s Birthday

    • Accidents
    • Appreciation for America and opportunity
    • baby pictures
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Dutch
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Economic Difficulty of Raising a family
    • Falling off a cliff
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • Immigration from Holland
    • Immigration from Sicily
    • Italian
    • memories of former times
    MBY001294
    Adrienne Ruby and Andrew Lewis
    43:28
    Adrienne Ruby and Andrew Lewis
    Emily Janssen
    March 30, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A 41-year old man interviews his 63 year-old friend and vetrinarian about her work on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations and also tells the story of how they met.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • City dogs versus Reservation Dogs
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family trips and excursions
    • Kiva Dances
    • Life on the Reservation
    • Money
    • near-death experiences
    • personal experiences
    • Road condiitions
    • street patterns
    • vegetables
    • Vetrinarian Stories
    • work space, hardhat, etc. decorations
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