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    MBX004731
    Rosa Rio and Tara Schroeder
    00:00
    Rosa Rio and Tara Schroeder
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Rosa Rio, 106, is interviewed by her friend, Tara Schroeder, 45.

    • 802 Union
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • card parties
    • cbs
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cole Porter
    • community worthies
    • Eleanor Roosevelt
    • Feminism
    • historical events/people
    • Hollywood
    • Influential People
    • Mary Martin
    • memories of former times
    MBX004727
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    00:00
    Violet Hittle and Doreen Myers
    Nina Porzucki
    December 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Violet Hittle, 97, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Doreen Myers,50.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Bowling
    • card parties
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • German
    • Germany
    • Lifesavers
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBX002168
    Doris Smith and Vanessa Gibson
    00:00
    Doris Smith and Vanessa Gibson
    awright
    January 13, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Vanessa Gibson interviews her mother, Doris, about her life growing up and intergration in Mississippi.

    • changing values
    • childrens’ connection with the past
    • desegregating drugstores
    • intergration of schools
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • NAACP
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBY000536
    Frank Hanawalt, Kathy Hanawalt, and Bill Hanawalt
    00:00
    Frank Hanawalt, Kathy Hanawalt, and Bill Hanawalt
    skramer
    September 18, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    25 year old woman and her husband interview her grandfather-in-law about his heart for social justice.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Garfield High school
    • historical events/people
    • Japanese Americans internment camp
    • Letters
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • Seabeck
    • Seattle, Washington
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Social justice
    • Spouse
    MBY000378
    Jen Holmes, Pam Watts, and Renee JV McGrath
    00:00
    Jen Holmes, Pam Watts, and Renee JV McGrath
    jangelos
    August 17, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    young mother interviews two other young mothers about becoming and being mothers

    • baby
    • balancing desires
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Compassion
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • dairy farm
    • everyone has a mother
    • follow your gut
    • good in the world
    • learning patience
    • life lessons
    • live intuitively
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBY000346
    Marylyn Weeks and Joan Mattelin
    00:00
    Marylyn Weeks and Joan Mattelin
    agoldman
    August 10, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A grandmother tells her granddaughter about growing up and her married life.

    • bar tender
    • buggy on roof
    • Business Owner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • John Deere
    • Masonic lodge
    • Telephone operator
    MBY001166
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    00:00
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
    pkochhar
    February 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    son interivews his mom about how she single-handedly raised her three sons once her husband got very ill. until then she’d always been dependent on her husband. very nice interivew.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    wtc000266
    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
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    Viola Garcia Garza, Maria Solone Peck, Diana “Didi” Garza, and Alma Coplen
    cbancroft
    November 26, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    Three sisters interviewed by daughter/niece about growing up on a cattle ranch in south Texas as a Mexican-American family. Stories about their university educations, traditions, pranks, and life on the ranch.

    • Appearance
    • Cattle ranching
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • dress-ups
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • luck and fate
    • memories of growing up
    • Mexican-American
    MBX000249
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    00:00
    Sue Shellenbarger and Dan Shellenbarger
    cbancroft
    July 7, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Dan Shellenbarger interviews his mother, Sue, about her activist work.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    SCK000165
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    00:00
    Linda Frontera and Kari Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 27, 2005 StoryKit

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family doctor stories
    • family feuds
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • luck and fate
    • memories of former times
    MBY004804
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    00:00
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    November 28, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lois tells stories about growing up in South Dakota, studying journalism and her many carriers throughout her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunt Kitty
    • blind date
    • college
    • Community Relations Commissions of Tulsa
    • Deacon
    • Defense Department
    • Democrat
    • democratic national convention
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • high jumping
    • Journalism
    • Kennedy Foundation
    • Letter writing
    MBX004642
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    00:00
    Catherine Miceli, Joseph Miceli, and Roz Luongo
    whenry-lester
    November 26, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Roz interviews her parents for their 50th wedding anniversary and tells them things the family has said about them.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • Father’s Day
    • gift
    • Grandkids
    • Gymnastics
    • Honeymoon
    MBY000852
    Noelle Hudson and Faye Hudson
    00:00
    Noelle Hudson and Faye Hudson
    kdimattia
    November 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Woman talks about her life in India and coming to America

    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • first impression of America
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SCK000060
    Mary Hillix and David Reinfurt
    00:00
    Mary Hillix and David Reinfurt
    No Facilitator
    October 27, 2005 StoryKit

    • college
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • family supernatural legends
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SFB000413
    Elizabeth Tilles, Susan Goldstein, and Rebecca Tilles
    00:00
    Elizabeth Tilles, Susan Goldstein, and Rebecca Tilles
    Alex Lyon
    July 16, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Elizabeth Tilles (89) talks to her granddaughter Rebecca Tilles (21) and friend Susan Goldstein (66) about her life growing up in Germany and working as a nurse during World War II.

    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • England
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • family trips and excursions
    • grandfather stories
    • hospital stories
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • school songs
    • The Holocaust
    SFB000397
    Victor Herbert and Susan Goldstein
    00:00
    Victor Herbert and Susan Goldstein
    Lena Richardson
    July 5, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Susan Goldstein (66) interviews her partner, Victor Herbert (82), about his unconventional life living around the world and then settling down in Berkeley in their relationship.

    • Berkeley
    • college
    • EST workshops
    • europe
    • India
    • intimacy workshop
    • mediation
    • mediator
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mutual funds
    • Optimism
    • P
    • Paris
    • personal experiences
    GCT002532
    Debby Smith and Lisa Smith
    39:35
    Debby Smith and Lisa Smith
    Veronica Ordaz
    February 18, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    A woman interviews her elder sister about her experiences traveling to Africa in the peace corps, on a fulbright, motherhood and life choices.

    • Africa
    • birth of first child
    • Burundi
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Fulbright Fellowship
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Peace Corps
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    MBX005470
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    01:14:58
    Pauline Curry and Christine Hemmings
    Nina Porzucki
    June 25, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Pauline Curry (64) is interviewed by her daughter, Christine Hemmings (40) about her lifetime love of the Dolly Copp campground.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Berlin, NH
    • birth of first child
    • camp fire
    • camp songs
    • Camping
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Dancing
    • Dolly Copp Campground
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    ATL000151
    Eugene  Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    40:02
    Eugene Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    aknight
    January 9, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Dale Hutchens, 53, interviews his father Eugune Hutchens, 80, about his life, his abiding interest in radio and his experiences growing up in a poor, sharecropping family

    • Alzheimers
    • amateur radio
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Church
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • Howard College
    • illness
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    ATL000106
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    01:17:38
    Anna Woo and Ann Lombardi
    aknight
    December 5, 2009 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Ann Lombardi, 59, interviews her friend Anna Woo, 42, about her family’s immigration to the United States and her life here since that day in April 1976.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Atlanta Korean Community
    • Dry cleaners
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • Korea
    • Korean
    • Korean American
    • Lockheed Martin
    MBY002610
    Thomas J. McMahon  and Deirdre McMahon Boone
    42:22
    Thomas J. McMahon and Deirdre McMahon Boone
    Susan Lee
    April 6, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Thomas tells daughter about meeting her mother and about how he came to Chicago from Ireland.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Babysitter
    • Chicago, Illinois
    • Childhood Games
    • contruction
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dating
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Ireland
    • labor movements and unions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Richard Daly
    • school day memories
    LMN001712
    Brenda  Mapp and Ashley  Mapp
    37:14
    Brenda Mapp and Ashley Mapp
    John White
    September 19, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Brenda Mapp is interviewed by her daughter about her family, specifically her mother and how she raised Ashley.

    • 4th of July
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Black Panther Party
    • Bullies
    • C-sections
    • Cesarean births
    • college
    • cookouts
    • Corporal Punishment
    • Elijah Mohammed
    • Elijah Poole
    • Family reunions
    • historical events/people
    • Huey P. Newton
    MBX001467
    Joseph B. Stitt and James J. Stitt
    01:08:19
    Joseph B. Stitt and James J. Stitt
    mramberg
    June 15, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Joe (80) tells his grandson James (40) about his family, his childhood, his work life, his marriage, his daughter (James’s mother), his emphysema and his outlook on life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • emphysema
    • family doctor stories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • Life philosophy
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Spouse
    GCT004875
    Philip Schneider and Dana Schneider
    44:01
    Philip Schneider and Dana Schneider
    Quentin Weld
    April 2, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Dana Schneider interviews her father Philip Schneider about his experiences in the military in WWII, and why he had her at such a late age.

    • ballplayer, GI Bill,
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn, Sterling Place, Italian P.O.W.s, China,
    • family naming and nicknames
    • North Africa, WWII, India, Bombay, K-rations, Sterling Place, BK, Crown Heights, shoeshine, army, brothers, mother, Florida, Russian immigrant,
    MBX002408
    Margaret Oney and Larry Oney
    01:16:41
    Margaret Oney and Larry Oney
    npumilia
    March 17, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Larry Oney interviews his mother, Margaret, about her life in rural Virginia, her children, and how she would like to be remembered.

    • birth of first child
    • childbirth
    • Childhood Games
    • death of child
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Hillside Court, Richmond, VA
    • Hog butchering
    • King and Queen County, VA
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Years Day
    • Phillip Morris
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Richmond, VA
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