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    SPP000116
    Annette Bernstein and Elizabeth Bernstein
    00:00
    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
    00:00
    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
    MBY004733
    Mary  Issacson and Julie Summers
    00:00
    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
    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
    MBY001956
    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane  Reeves
    00:00
    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane Reeves
    Ryan Murdock
    August 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Michael and Joseph talk about their father/son relationship and their sexuality.

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • Sexual orientation
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX005185
    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
    00:00
    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
    SCK000367
    E.J. Christiansen and Kim Spelts
    27:40
    E.J. Christiansen and Kim Spelts
    No Facilitator
    December 1, 2006 StoryKit

    • Childhood Games
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SCK000660
    Gerda Miele, Kathrina Proscia, and Joanne Abbate
    41:31
    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
    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
    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
    • 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
    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
    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
    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
    MBX002021
    Alice Rapallo and Mark Alice Durant
    39:10
    Alice Rapallo and Mark Alice Durant
    Maddy Nussbaum
    October 26, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Alice Rapallo talks about living in Boston, raising kids, and being married to an alcoholic.

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Marines
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • prohibition
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Roosevelt
    • Spouse
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    MBY003310
    Margie Gomez and Tammy Gomez
    40:43
    Margie Gomez and Tammy Gomez
    hmarshall
    October 8, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Tammy Gomez interviews her mother Margie Gomez young life and her life now.

    • birth of first child
    • caregiving
    • Concerts
    • Cotton
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite brother
    • Fort Worth, TX
    • halloween costume
    • illness
    • large family
    • lullabies
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    LMN000880
    Lynne  Murray and Kathrina Proscia
    01:18:27
    Lynne Murray and Kathrina Proscia
    Jalylah Burrell
    November 15, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Lynne Murray, 57, in conversation with her good friend Kathrina Proscia, 48.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Brooklyn
    • Catholic
    • child-rearing
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • Fundraising
    • Grammar school
    • Howard beach
    • Lido Beach
    • memories of former times
    • new york
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    MBX007578
    Nathan Shapiro, Roberta Shapiro, and Anya Glandon
    37:00
    Nathan Shapiro, Roberta Shapiro, and Anya Glandon
    Jackie Sojico
    January 12, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Nathan Shapiro (93) is interviewed by his daughter Roberta Shapiro (57) and granddaughter Anya Glandon (19) about his childhood, his time in the army, and his life now.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Atomic bomb
    • Chicago
    • family characters
    • Family reunions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Hiroshima
    • historical events/people
    • Hortense Shapiro
    • Lake Michigan
    • Lakeshore drive
    • memories of growing up
    • Nagasaki
    • Neighbors
    • personal experiences
    GCT003695
    Rosalie “Mickey” Greenberg and Cara Feinberg
    01:22:30
    Rosalie “Mickey” Greenberg and Cara Feinberg
    Ryan Murdock
    April 1, 2007 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Mickey remembers her parents.

    • Allergies
    • Birth control
    • cemetery traditions
    • cigars
    • Dr. Kildare
    • fables
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Humor
    • Klu Klux Klan
    • Lower East Side
    • Medical School
    • piano
    • Poland
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