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    gct001181
    Zdenka Nelson and Kirstin Nelson
    01:16:58
    Zdenka Nelson and Kirstin Nelson
    lspero
    March 13, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Daughter interviews mom about marriage and small hometown in Nebraska, where she grew up in the 1930s and 40s.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • approaching end of life, changes with illness
    • charity, helping the poor
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    SPP001541
    Jeannette McGowan and Kathryn McGowan
    43:18
    Jeannette McGowan and Kathryn McGowan
    lbradley
    March 14, 2007 Sound Portraits Productions

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    MBX003482
    Arthur Robinson and June Robinson
    01:13:53
    Arthur Robinson and June Robinson
    Jenna Weiss-Berman
    February 1, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    A woman interviews her husband about growing up in rural Georgia and moving to Detroit where he joined a band. He then interviews her about her childhood in Brooklyn, and the blending of their two families.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Auto mechanics
    • Brooklyn, New York
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Detroit, Michigan
    • Fort Pierce, Florida
    • General Motors
    • Jazz Poets
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • Motown
    • Peace Corps
    • personal experiences
    SFB000394
    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
    00:00
    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
    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
    MBX004541
    Patricia Kloiber and Kathleen Kloiber Koch
    01:19:14
    Patricia Kloiber and Kathleen Kloiber Koch
    Nina Porzucki
    November 2, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Patricia Kloiber is interviewed by her daughter, Kathleen Kloiber Koch about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    • college
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Girl Scouts of America
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • Ireland
    MBX004651
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    00:00
    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
    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
    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
    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
    MBX005001
    Travis Hipp and Stuart Hipp
    01:20:19
    Travis Hipp and Stuart Hipp
    Alex Kelly
    March 8, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Travis Hipp (28) and his brother Stuart Hipp (32) talk about memories from their childhood as siblings and how they have grown to be better communicators with each other over time.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • California
    • Calvin and Hobbes
    • Camp
    • chile
    • Clemson, NC
    • college
    • Communication
    • Competition
    • family trips and excursions
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Fighting
    • First bike
    • Marijuana
    MBX000763
    Velora Anderson and Charlotte Mayo
    01:15:48
    Velora Anderson and Charlotte Mayo
    Nick Yulman
    November 5, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Charlotte interiviews her mother Velora about her childhood on a farm in illinois.

    • 4h
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • factory workers
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • preserving food
    MBX000748
    David Evans and Judy Peiser
    01:53:51
    David Evans and Judy Peiser
    Nick Yulman
    October 31, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Judy interviews David about recording blues and folk musicians in the rural south.

    • Alan Lomax
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Blues
    • college
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancing
    • Fife and drum mjusic
    • Folk culture
    • Otha Turner
    • personal experiences
    • Roosevelt Hooltz
    • social beliefs and practices
    • song composing
    GCT001932
    Jyoti Soni and Rita Soni
    34:47
    Jyoti Soni and Rita Soni
    mtivnan
    August 21, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Woman interviews her mother about moving to the U.S. from India and being pregnant for the first time.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • family doctor stories
    • first impression of America
    • graduate school
    • memories of former times
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • regimens
    • ritual foods
    • Seasame Street
    • Soap operas
    • Spouse
    • watching and listening habits
    SCK000472
    Gladys Zodda and David Zodda
    01:23:09
    Gladys Zodda and David Zodda
    No Facilitator
    January 29, 2007 StoryKit

    • birth of first child
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    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
    MBY000434
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    42:21
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    jangelos
    August 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Wife interviews husband about the building of thier home on the top of Moscow Mountain, activism, environmentalism, and his making of a giant mobile steel fire-breathing dragon

    • 14 foot snows
    • ancient cedar trees
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • arcosanti
    • blacksmith
    • boy dylan
    • buidling of home on Moscow Mountain
    • canyons, mountains, wheatfields, rivers
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • county commissioner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • creating fabricated steel dragon
    • dragon man
    • ecology
    • environmentalism
    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
    MBX000356
    Reggie Hodson, Robert Hodson, Patricia Dewar, and Christine MacNaughton
    01:13:19
    Reggie Hodson, Robert Hodson, Patricia Dewar, and Christine MacNaughton
    cbancroft
    July 31, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Patricia and Christine interview their parents, Reggie and Robert about their lives.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Dancing
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • labor movements and unions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Salesmen
    • school day memories
    wtc000035
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    01:23:44
    Diane Spindler and Stephanie Romeo
    Nick Yulman
    July 21, 2005 World Trade Center Booth

    A woman interviews her sister about escaping from WTC on 9/11.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • family characters
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • historical events/people
    • Injuries
    • luck and fate
    • Merchant Marines
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    spp000962
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    00:00
    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
    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
    MBX000845
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    01:21:59
    Willie King, Debbie Bond, and Rick Asherson
    mtivnan
    November 21, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Willie King tells his friends about the person who most impacted his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Band
    • blues music
    • clubbing/bars
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community worthies
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Fred Frayser
    • historical events/people
    • juke joints
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    SPP000414
    Bob Rorschach, Susan Rorschach, and Elizabeth Rorschach
    40:27
    Bob Rorschach, Susan Rorschach, and Elizabeth Rorschach
    efeit
    January 22, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • family characters
    • Grandkids
    • Independence day
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    • TV
    wtc000837
    Valerie Sloman and Jessamyn Hope
    01:27:03
    Valerie Sloman and Jessamyn Hope
    Lena Richardson
    October 6, 2006 World Trade Center Booth

    Jessamyn interviews her aunt Valerie about her life growing up in South Africa, being a woman in the 50s and her move to North America

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • Pollution
    • Spouse
    • the tragedy queen
    • Yiddish
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