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One Small Step conversation partners Joe Marra (57) and Landon Reid (50) talk about how important their parents were to their development, the joys of both having a 5 year old and how to make some politics a win-win situation.

Linda Dean Goolsbee tells StoryCorps facilitator Rose Gorman of her parents, Jack and Francis Dean.

Jennie interviews her friend Gertrud (83) about her experiences as a refugee from Bohemia, first to Germany and then to the United States, as well as her time as a Wisconsin Master Gardener where she established the first butterfly garden...

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

Lorna talks to her friend Carol about her life growing up in the Hollywood Hills, her two husbands and what her life is like now.

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

Heather Sher (40) interviews her grandmother, Rheba Sher (89) about growing up above the family bar in Baltimore, adopting two sons, and retiring at 85. Heather and Rheba now live together.

Elsa Altshool talks with friend Janis Thompson about growing up and living her life in Southern New Mexico.

The story of Odette's childhood and family history, beginning with her family's emigration from Hungary to France, her move to London, and then the United States.

June Mullan Reeves (83) tells her daughter, Amy Spiker (42), of her childhood during the Great Depression and of her work in Akron, OH, during World War II.

William J. Ancell talks with his wife Judith Anne Weeks Ancell about growing up in Chicago, his young childhood during wartime, his family and children, and his work as an environment engineer.

Frederick Earl DeCamp, 91, by his niece, Cynthia Betts, 61, about growing up near the Grand Coulee Dam and being in the air force.

Hazel M. Pace talks with her son James T. Pace about being a nurse in Menlo Park, CA for the Army and tells about meeting her husband Bob at Dibble General Hospital, where she was working. Hazel and James tell...

Gerald (Jerry) Rudnick (68) interviews his uncle Alfred Klinger (87) about his European bicycling adventures taken after the death of his wife, Kit. Alfred went to Germany in part to visit Jerry, who was there visiting his son, and to...

Ruth Levenson (87) talks to her son David Taussig (60) and daughter-in-law Cecily Burke (61) about her life as a Holocaust refugee and eventually immigrating to the United States.

Russell Meredith (88) speaks with Leo Gaudin (67), Susan O'Neill (63), and Jonathan Basile (26) about his military assignments during World War II, his travels, and dealing with racial prejudice in the South and North.

Stanley talks about his time in the navy during World War II.

Jim Lesperance (71) and his wife Jan Lesperance (69) share memories of their fathers and talk about Jim's memories of teaching.

Robert E. Gillespie (72) interviews his father, Richard T. Gillespie (99), about his upbringing peddling milk, as well as his experience in the Civilian Pilot Training Program and being a B-17 pilot during World War II.

Matthew "Matt" O’Neill (31) shares a conversation with his grandfather, John O’Neill (96), who Matt calls "Pop," about John’s experience in the Army during World War II.

Lily Horio (81) talks with her friend Shari Tamashiro (38) about her family and growing up in Hawaii during WWII.

We discussed memories of the Great Depression, WWII, family members, and stories passed from an older generation.

Siegfried Buss (78) talks with daughter Frieda Nossaman (?) about being a German missionary living in Japan.

Anna Wasden (58) sits down with her mother, Joan Hunter Christensen (86), to ask about her family's turf accounting business, what it was like growing up in Distington, England during World War II, and the family traditions that differ from...

The story of Herman's childhood through his early adulthood, growing up and living as a farmer in Burkeville, Virginia.