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    SCK000009
    Sybil Sammons and Don Medley
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    Sybil Sammons and Don Medley
    October 8, 2005 StoryKit

    • birth of first child
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    MBY001979
    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
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    Dolly Winger and Amy Winger
    Ryan Murdock
    September 3, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Amy talks with her mother, Dolly, about growing up on a farm in North Dakota.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Childhood Games
    • dollhouse
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Outhouse
    • personal experiences
    • piano
    • ritual foods
    • school day memories
    MBY002448
    Molly Conn Wiley and R. Reese Fuller
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    Molly Conn Wiley and R. Reese Fuller
    Kamilah Duggins
    February 21, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Molly recalls her experience in a home for unwed mothers in the late 1960s, the death of her father and the death of her second husband.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Careers for women
    • college
    • illness
    • Injuries
    • Lullaby
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Parenting
    • Patience
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    LMN000394
    Kenton Allen, Kathleen Allen, and Kim Allen
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    Kenton Allen, Kathleen Allen, and Kim Allen
    Brianna Hyneman
    July 9, 2008 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Kim Allen talks with her parents Kenton and Kathleen Allen about how they met, got engaged and their children and grandchildren.

    • birth defects
    • birth of first child
    • car accident
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • culturally conscious
    • Eloping
    • exchange students
    • family trips and excursions
    • Lakeland College
    • meningitis
    • New Years
    • Peace movement
    • personal experiences
    • Pregnancy
    MBX003871
    Linda Croxson and Sara E Meale
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    Linda Croxson and Sara E Meale
    Quentin Weld
    May 18, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Linda Croxson talks with her daughter Sara Meale about her children, and meeting her husband.

    • birth of first child
    • Bob Evans, breakfast, grandmother,
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • recording, Blue Ashe, Clifton, Cincinnati, fighting, German, Hutton Bauer, Notre Dame High School, Cross County Highway, Amy, burglary, cruises, cruise ships,
    • Unistrut, Lion, shopping,
    MBX004712
    Timm Mettler and David Bewley
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    Timm Mettler and David Bewley
    whenry-lester
    December 14, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David and Timm talk about their artistic mentorship and friendship.

    • apprenticeships
    • Artist
    • Chicago
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Collage
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Dancer
    • Leonard Baskin
    • personal experiences
    • Polaroid
    • Ringling Museum
    • solitude
    • St. Petersburg, FL
    • [email protected]
    • Tampa Bay
    MBX004655
    Laura Bor and Naomi Haber
    00:00
    Laura Bor and Naomi Haber
    Nina Porzucki
    November 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Laura Bor, 87, is interviewed by her granddaughter, Naomi Haber, 17, about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • Boro Park
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • hopscotch
    • Influential People
    • Jump rope
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • potsy
    • school day memories
    LMN001160
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    00:00
    Maureen Mahoney and Tracey Merritt
    Nzingha Garner
    January 31, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Maureen Mahoney, 70, was interviewed by her daughter, Tracey Merritt, 44, about growing up in New York City.

    • Aunt Tini
    • Central Park
    • Childhood Games
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Hicksville
    • memories of growing up
    • Movies
    • Music
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • St. Paul the Apostle School
    MBY005209
    Athelia Tanner and Janet Perry
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    Athelia Tanner and Janet Perry
    Jeremy Helton
    March 26, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Janet Perry (46)interviews her mother Athelia Tanner (88) about her life and family.

    • 36 room house
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Athelia
    • Bee Hive
    • Bill
    • birth of first child
    • brown checked dress
    • Bryan
    • car fare
    • Chores
    • Church
    • City and County Building
    • Claralyn
    • Daken
    • donuts
    MBY003050
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    42:31
    Thomas Satterly and Shelia Roberts
    Rachel Falcone
    July 27, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Shelia asked her husband Tom about growing up in Butte, working in the mines, and his family.

    • ACM
    • Anaconda Copper Mining Company
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Butte mines
    • Childhood Games
    • columbia gardens
    • confrontation
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drift
    • Family Traditions
    • mine shaft
    • mining
    • mucking
    • Nature’s Remedy
    • NR
    ATL000489
    Tishana Trainor and L’Erin Asantewaa
    39:49
    Tishana Trainor and L’Erin Asantewaa
    smiller
    September 18, 2010 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Black lesbian Tishana Trainor (34) is interviewed by her friend L’Erin Asantewaa (31) about coming out to her siblings, parents, husband and children.

    • affairs
    • Atlanta Black Gay Pride
    • Atlanta Gay Pride
    • Brother
    • Buddhist
    • Charis Bookstore
    • clubbing/bars
    • dress-ups
    • favorite hangouts and haunts
    • Femme
    • gay and lesbian books
    • gay siblings
    • homosexuals
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBY005525
    Orlino  Bareng and Angela  Prater
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    Orlino Bareng and Angela Prater
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    June 6, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Orlino M. Mareny, 81, by his daughter, Angela Prater, 50, about his work on the plantation in Hawaii.

    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Filipino
    • Filipino food
    • Filipino Infantry
    • foreman
    • Hawaii
    • Laborer
    • memories of growing up
    • memory
    • Mill
    SFB000061
    Joan Ruskin and Susan Steinhauer
    01:19:06
    Joan Ruskin and Susan Steinhauer
    Alex Lyon
    November 23, 2008 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Joan Ruskin, 85, talks to her daughter Susan Steinhauer, , about life after her heart attack and what she now considers important in life.

    • Acceptance
    • birth of first child
    • Bucky Bachner: husbands
    • Coping
    • family feuds
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Greg Bachner: brothers
    • Heart attacks
    • Herman Ruskin: husbands
    • Hospice
    • illness
    • Influential People
    MBY003117
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    39:18
    Merril (Mutt) Murray and Samuel D. Schropp
    Daniel Littlewood
    August 17, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mutt Murray talks to his neighbor Sam Schropp about growing up with horses, farming with his family, and learning to fly small planes.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cache Valley, Utah
    • Childhood Games
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • drilling
    • family trips and excursions
    • horse riding
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • milk factory
    • mutt and jeff
    • Olaf Nelson
    • paved roads
    • peaches
    • Richmond, Utah
    GCT000656
    Lora French Culpepper Ruess and David Hays Buckley
    01:23:19
    Lora French Culpepper Ruess and David Hays Buckley
    epresler
    May 26, 2004 Grand Central StoryBooth

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Crowley, Louisiana
    • family members in history
    • graduate school at Columbia School of Library Science
    • Great Depression stories
    • historical events/people
    • Librarian
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    GCT004572
    Justus Rosenberg and Janet Harris
    39:18
    Justus Rosenberg and Janet Harris
    Rose Gorman
    December 13, 2007 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Justus Rosenberg tells friend and colleague Janet Harris of his work as a messenger for the Varian Fry Foundation and of his work during World War II for the American Rescue Committee, now known as the International Rescue Committee.l

    • American Army
    • American Rescue Committee/International Rescue Committe
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Bard College
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Danzig
    • Dayton, OH
    • first impression of America
    • France
    • French Underground Army
    • historical events/people
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Miriam Davenport
    MBY000267
    Winnie Woodmansee and Fran Joersz
    40:03
    Winnie Woodmansee and Fran Joersz
    agoldman
    July 22, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A mother and daughter talk about family history.

    • alcoholics anonymous
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • colon cancer and diabetes
    • ectopic pregnancy
    • Elope
    • family expressions
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family in-jokes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • illness
    • illness support groups
    • Influential People
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    GCT001151
    Mariann Raftery and Mia Raftery
    01:20:46
    Mariann Raftery and Mia Raftery
    Kayvon Bahramian
    February 23, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    SFB000580
    Roberta Zadow and Kira Greer
    01:23:54
    Roberta Zadow and Kira Greer
    Alex Lyon
    November 19, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Roberta Zadow (70) talks to her daughter Kira Greer (32) about growing up with Polio and her time in the Haight Ashbury during the 1960’s.

    • 1960’s
    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • body casts
    • Communism
    • Counterculture
    • cutting school
    • family history
    • Franklin Roosevelt
    • Haight Ashbury
    • House of UnAmerican Activities
    • Jewish Ghettos
    • Joe McCarthy
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    SFB000255
    Geraldine Johnson and Courtney Johnson Rowe
    01:21:11
    Geraldine Johnson and Courtney Johnson Rowe
    Frank Kingman
    March 29, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Geraldine, 87, talks with her granddaughter Courtney, 30, about her family’s heritage and the connection with Grass Valley, California.

    • Appearance
    • Army Corps of Engineers
    • Boy scouts
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grass Valley, CA
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Morman Church
    • Mormans
    • Nevada City, CA
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Sacramento, CA
    MBX001592
    Margaret Woods and Jeff Rousell
    01:21:25
    Margaret Woods and Jeff Rousell
    skramer
    July 10, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Woman is interviewed by her grandson about growing up in St. Regis Falls, her family, meeting her husband and driving across the country, loss of her husband and son, and life now.

    • advice--be cheerful, don’t give in, life is interesting
    • Alcoa
    • Atomic bomb
    • birth of first child
    • Bremerton, Washington
    • driving accross country
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grand Canyon
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • Polish
    • Portland, Oregon
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • St. Regis Falls, New York
    SFB000733
    Michelle Brenard and Sarah Geis
    01:24:59
    Michelle Brenard and Sarah Geis
    Eloise Melzer
    March 18, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Michelle Brenard, 62, tells facilitator Sarah Geis, 28, about the lesbian group she founded for women over 40 and her family.

    • accessible for all
    • Aidan Brenard
    • Ain’t Dead Yet Kick-Azz Events (ADYKE)
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • April Peacock
    • Being a grandma
    • being beat-up
    • being pulled over by police
    • bikes
    • birth of first child
    • black sheep of family
    • close friendships
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Coming Out
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    ATL000095
    Eugene Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    01:20:58
    Eugene Hutchens and Dale Hutchens
    llove
    November 28, 2009 Atlanta StoryBooth

    Eugene Hutchens, age 80, and his son, Dale Hutchens, age 53, talk about Eugene’s life growing up during the Great Depression, his years as a Baptist pastor in Alabama, and his career in radio.

    • amateur radio
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • bus boycott
    • earache
    • family doctor stories
    • family expressions
    • Grapes of wrath
    • Great Depression stories
    • illness
    • Jasper, AL
    • Klansman
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    MBX000566
    Watson William Wallace and Suzanne Watson
    00:00
    Watson William Wallace and Suzanne Watson
    rshankar
    September 20, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    49 year old daughter interviews her 77 year old father about growing up in Kentucky, joining the airforce, having a family and being a dentist in a small town in Missouri.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Great Depression stories
    • Kentucky; Korean War
    • Maternal death due to complications following childbirth; family dentist
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Money
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • Referee; High School sports; fishing; horse racing
    • rural Missouri; rural Kentucky; Desoto, MO; Clay, KY;
    MBX007117
    James Ritter and Mary Wolfe
    39:31
    James Ritter and Mary Wolfe
    Jorge Rios
    September 1, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    James Ritter, 85, tells his daughter Mary Wolfe, 49, about his work as a public school music education teacher.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Career Success
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Eagles Mere
    • Eagles Mere hotels and resorts
    • Eagles Mere town hall
    • family naming and nicknames
    • former students
    • Hughesville
    • Influential People
    • lodges
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
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