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    DDB000551
    Ruth Lewis and Lon Cseplo
    44:11
    Ruth Lewis and Lon Cseplo
    Rose Gorman
    July 29, 2009 Door-to-Door Kit B

    Ruth E. Lewis (84) tells her grandson, Lon Cseplo (39) of her family’s life during the Great Depression and later during World War II. She shares the story of her mother’s coming to the United States by way of Ellis...

    • and procedures
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Canning
    • craft
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Ellis Island
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • I Don’t Care
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Years Eve
    SCK001058
    Harriet Peavey and Angela Peavey Christiana
    01:18:56
    Harriet Peavey and Angela Peavey Christiana
    April 2, 2008 StoryKit

    A granddaughter interviews her grandmother about her life.

    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    MBY007524
    Leora Ferguson Ciccone and Luann Ferguson Ciccone
    43:53
    Leora Ferguson Ciccone and Luann Ferguson Ciccone
    Jorge Rios
    February 23, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Leora Ferguson Ciccone, 96, talks to her daughter Luann Ferguson Ciccone, 56, about her life and careers in the military and nursing.

    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family influences
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Military service
    • Money
    • nursing instructors
    • political beliefs and practices
    MBY005210
    Henry  Johnson  and Suzanne Nikolaisen
    41:51
    Henry Johnson and Suzanne Nikolaisen
    Anna Walters
    March 26, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Suzanne Nikolaisen (39) interviews her father, Henry J. Johnson Jr. (82) about his career in aeronautical engineering.

    • Aeronautical engineering
    • ballistics
    • Catholic
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Great Depression stories
    • hartford, connecticut
    • historical events/people
    • Irish
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • missile defense
    • northrup institute of technology
    • personal experiences
    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
    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
    MBX003926
    Bruce Ferguson and Miriam (Mimie) Pacheco
    41:17
    Bruce Ferguson and Miriam (Mimie) Pacheco
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 30, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bruce Ferguson talks with his daughter, Mimie Pacheco about his love of history, farming, and serving in a public service office for over 20 years.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Boon County, Kentucky
    • Chicken, Cows, Pigs
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • County Judge Executive
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Lineage
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    MBX004578
    James Desjardin and Gertrude Desjardin
    01:01:48
    James Desjardin and Gertrude Desjardin
    Nina Porzucki
    November 9, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    James Desjardin, 83, is interviewed by his wife, Gertrude Desjardin, 77, about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Apollo Moon Mission
    • Apple II Computer
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Electrical Engineer
    • Excel
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Fat Mac
    • Great Depression stories
    • Honeywell
    MBX007290
    John Balthrop and Sheila Michel
    36:58
    John Balthrop and Sheila Michel
    Jorge Rios
    October 15, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    John Edward Balthrop, 91, talks to his daughter Sheila Michel, 52, about his military career, his wife, and his medical career.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • being in war
    • beliefs on war
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Death of a spouse
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family poems
    • family practitioners
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • fellow soldiers
    • Great Depression stories
    GCT004736
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    53:47
    Karen Cathers, Nikki Pison, and Justin Peone
    Michelle Swinehart
    February 9, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Karen Cathers tells her kids, Nikki Pison, Justin Peone, Christina Pappalardo about her childhood growing up with Communist parents during the Cold War, marrying an older man when she was 17, and feeling determined to be a “perfect” mother for...

    • 4th Grade
    • birth of first child
    • capitalism
    • Childhood Games
    • Communism
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • May Day Parade
    • memories of former times
    MBY005413
    Irene Prince and Gary Prince
    43:33
    Irene Prince and Gary Prince
    whenry-lester
    May 11, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Gary interviews his grandmother Irene about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Annie Irene Swain
    • B-29
    • birth of first child
    • Boeing
    • castor oil
    • Chemotherapy
    • Cupertino, CA
    • Don Prince
    • dustbowl
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • illness
    MBY007402
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    33:50
    Augustus Feather and Bette DeGraw
    Beatriz Colonia
    January 17, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Augustus S Feather Jr (99) talks with his daughter Bette DeGraw (64) about his childhood, work, and meeting his wife Margarette.

    • Childhood Games
    • childhood mischief
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family naming and nicknames
    • friends
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Jersey
    • personal experiences
    • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Plants
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Uncles
    SFB001224
    William Evers and Peter Emblad
    01:21:07
    William Evers and Peter Emblad
    Liam Pierce
    March 10, 2011 San Francisco StoryBooth

    William D. Evers (83) by Peter Emblad (43) on W.’s family history. W. talks about his parents and grandparents’ immigration to the U.S. from Germany, and their rise in prominence in San Francisco

    • Caspar Malchiar Balthazar, Dhormann, Sepha, Inez, Harold, Otto, Ernest, Jenny, Caroline Livermore, Spekbacher
    • college
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • Hammond, Germany, Calistoga, Marin County, Ross, San Francisco,
    • historical events/people
    • illness
    • Influential People
    GCT004804
    John Lauer and John Lauer
    37:07
    John Lauer and John Lauer
    Steven Thrasher
    March 8, 2008 Grand Central StoryBooth

    John Lauer, Jr. interviews his father John “Jack” Lauer, Sr. about growing up in a coal town in PA and about how he met his mother.

    • 45 degree Fllen
    • apprenticeships
    • Ashland, PA
    • Beer
    • breast weighing contest
    • breasts
    • Briser Fullen
    • Buzzer Graber
    • Coal
    • community worthies
    • death of mother
    • Dopey Umlauf
    • DuPont
    • Empire State Building
    • English
    GCT002812
    Alma McAllister, Amy Farges, and Lisa McAllister
    01:18:07
    Alma McAllister, Amy Farges, and Lisa McAllister
    rshankar
    May 14, 2006 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Lisa (37) and Amy (51) interview their mother Alma (79) about her childhood in Youngstown, OH, meeting and falling in love with her husband, and their extended family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Catholic education
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    NPL000401
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    01:16:47
    Larry Keyes and Martha O’Brien
    Kate Wingate
    July 30, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    Larry tells Martha about his family and the impact his father and uncle had on his life.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • Boxing
    • Childhood Games
    • Circus
    • Clinton, MI
    • clubbing/bars
    • De Molay
    • Deleon, TX
    • Edwin Bledsoe Keyes
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    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

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