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    MBX004731
    Rosa Rio and Tara Schroeder
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    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
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    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
    MBY000536
    Frank Hanawalt, Kathy Hanawalt, and Bill Hanawalt
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    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
    MBY001166
    Jean Garcia and Kenneth Garcia
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    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
    SCK001846
    Christine Larson and Alexandra Larson
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    Christine Larson and Alexandra Larson
    December 9, 2009 StoryKit

    • Childhood Games
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    LMN001184
    Mary Stevenson and Elizabeth Stevenson
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    Mary Stevenson and Elizabeth Stevenson
    Nzingha Garner
    February 7, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Mary Stevenson, 63, was interviewed by her daughter, Elizabeth Stevenson, 27, about her life.

    • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    • birth of first child
    • Brooklyn Bridge
    • college
    • Family Traditions
    • Feminism
    • Grace Julien, Marsha Hertzberg Schoenfeld, pat Rosenthal Cantor Mann, Karen Bluestone, Bruce Cohen, Barry Bluestone
    • John Foster Stevenson
    • Kosher speakeasy
    • memories of growing up
    • Pants
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Schmaltz family, Julia Schmaltz
    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
    MBX000132
    David D. Wooldridge and Jennifer E. Cumby
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    David D. Wooldridge and Jennifer E. Cumby
    bmyers
    June 9, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David and Jennifer recall memories of being together.

    • birth of first child
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • 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
    LMN000551
    Gene  Krasa and E.B. Kelly
    01:22:40
    Gene Krasa and E.B. Kelly
    Jalylah Burrell
    August 17, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Gene Luka Krasa, 89, is interviewed by her granddaughter E.B. Kelly, 27 about her early life, the holocaust and her marriage to Karel Krasa

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • Concentration Camp
    • Czechoslovakia
    • family members in history
    • Germany
    • Gross-Rosen
    • Hempstead
    • historical events/people
    • holocaust
    • Hotel Europa
    • Influential People
    • Jewish
    • Laurence Steinhardt
    • memories of former times
    NPL000337
    Mike Pigott, Mark McNeely, Katy Varney, and Keith Miles
    01:01:17
    Mike Pigott, Mark McNeely, Katy Varney, and Keith Miles
    Kate Wingate
    June 11, 2008 Nashville Public Library

    These 6 business partners came to the booth to tell the story of the beginning, growth, and success of their company, McNeely, Pigott, and Fox.

    • Al Gore
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chattanooga, TN
    • cocktail napkin
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community worthies
    • company retreats
    • competitiveness
    • consensus decision making
    • Country Music Hall of Fame
    • Downtown Arena, Nashville
    • Government
    • Governor Phil Bredesen
    • Journalism
    • Karaoke
    MBY007119
    Judith Blake and Caroline Denham
    01:24:33
    Judith Blake and Caroline Denham
    Jackie Sojico
    October 30, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Caroline Denham (25) and her mother Judith Blake (65) have a conversation about Caroline’s childhood and Judith’s parenting choices.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bob Dylan
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • Norman, Oklahoma
    • Parenting
    • personal experiences
    • ritual foods
    • social beliefs and practices
    • song composing
    • Spouse
    • Woody Guthrie
    ATL000235
    Charles Warner and Julie Miccichi
    37:48
    Charles Warner and Julie Miccichi
    aknight
    March 11, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Julie Miccichi, 40, interviews her father Charles “Bob” Warner, 79, about his life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • carving
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family heroes
    • making furniture
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • Uncle Jim
    MBX004268
    Mary Grace and Bruce Butin
    01:19:23
    Mary Grace and Bruce Butin
    whenry-lester
    August 30, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Mary talks to her son Bruce about her life’s purpose to be a mother and to spread the message of honoring the divine feminine.

    • Accidents
    • birth of first child
    • ceremony
    • China
    • Divine Feminine
    • feminine
    • Feminism
    • Homosexuality
    • honor
    • hysterectomy
    • Jesus
    • journey
    • luck and fate
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • masculine
    MBX007904
    Jimmy  Pierce and Benjamin Pierce
    41:19
    Jimmy Pierce and Benjamin Pierce
    Beatriz Colonia
    April 1, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Jimmy Pierce (58) talks with his son Benjamin Pierce (22) about his nonprofit ‘Kids Making It’ and public service.

    • at risk youth
    • Attorneys
    • birth of first child
    • Friendships
    • Journalism
    • Kids Making It
    • Louisiana
    • memories of growing up
    • mentoring
    • New Orleans
    • Non profits
    • North Carolina
    • personal experiences
    • practicing law
    • Public service
    MBX008205
    Robert Baumann and Judith  Baumann
    40:34
    Robert Baumann and Judith Baumann
    Beatriz Colonia
    June 17, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Robert J. Baumann (70) talks with wife, Judith Baumann (68) about his career in child neurology and his work in the rural communities of Eastern Kentucky.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Baumann Farm Camp
    • Baumann Ranch Camp
    • Camp Conestoga
    • Chicago
    • Child Neurology
    • children’s camp
    • Clay County
    • coal miners
    • Counselors
    • Denver University
    • Eastern, Kentucky
    • Epilepsy
    • Great Depression stories
    • Harlan, Kentucky
    LMN000524
    Irving Fishman and Stephen Cassell
    01:32:05
    Irving Fishman and Stephen Cassell
    Jalylah Burrell
    August 10, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Irving Fishman, 90, is interviewed by his nephew Stephen Cassell, 45 about some funny stories from his early life and time served in the military.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • automat
    • Battalion
    • Battle
    • Brooklyn
    • Canal Street
    • captain
    • Coney Island
    • connecticut
    • Cumberland River
    • Fishing Net
    • gasoline
    • George Washington Bridge
    • Gunfire
    • Harassment Fire
    SPP000978
    Dorothy Jumper Rodgers and Dale Ann Chimel
    38:52
    Dorothy Jumper Rodgers and Dale Ann Chimel
    zbarr
    January 11, 2005 Sound Portraits Productions

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • WW2
    DDD000405
    Jesse Lomelí and Marta Lomelí
    02:08:43
    Jesse Lomelí and Marta Lomelí
    Carolina Correa
    July 23, 2010 Door-to-Door Kit D

    Jesse Lomelí (66) and his sister Marta Lomelí (57) talk about when their family came to the United States from Mexico, the cultural difference at home and at school.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • August 11th 1954
    • Book
    • coach
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • English as a second language
    • ESl
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • father
    MBX003599
    Stella Hager and Leena Frace
    01:16:53
    Stella Hager and Leena Frace
    Jenna Weiss-Berman
    February 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    A woman talks about the deaths of two of her three children, and growing up in a poor Spanish speaking family.

    • alcoholic
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • college
    • H.I.V.
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    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
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