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    Christine Urban and Linda Frontera
    00:00
    Christine Urban and Linda Frontera
    No Facilitator
    November 7, 2005 StoryKit

    • college
    • Dancing
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • illness
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • schoolyard games
    Lenore Fox Monti interviews Sr. Carol Fox
    39:56
    Lenore Fox Monti interviews Sr. Carol Fox
    Lenore
    May 12, 2020 App Interview

    Lenore Fox Monti talks with her aunt, Sr. Carol Fox about her childhood growing up in Chicago and her life as an educator.

    • Family memories
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Helping the poor
    • Nature
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Rogers Park Chicago Illinois
    • Social justice
    • StoryCorps Connect
    • World War II
    MBX000095
    Shyrl-Ann Hunt and Lyndele Von Schill
    01:21:33
    Shyrl-Ann Hunt and Lyndele Von Schill
    bmyers
    June 1, 2005 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Sisters Shryl-Ann and Lyndele talk about their late mother's life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    SFB000631
    John Manassero and Jeff Manassero
    01:07:33
    John Manassero and Jeff Manassero
    Lena Richardson
    December 27, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Jeff Manassero, 24, interviews his father, John Michael Manassero, 63, about his life.

    • birth of first child
    • black lung
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Ditch
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • gold mines
    • Lodi, California
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Parochial school
    • personal experiences
    • race in Lodi, California
    MBY007807
    Robin  Sunbeam and Daniel Littlewood
    42:52
    Robin Sunbeam and Daniel Littlewood
    ecohen
    May 7, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Robin Sunbeam (62) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about traveling, her daughter, Sudharma Kumari’s life and death.

    • 215 cards
    • anorexia
    • anorexia nervosa
    • Art Stoyer
    • birth of first child
    • Bombay, India
    • cannibus
    • carbon monoxide poisoning
    • cemetery traditions
    • Drugs
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • emotional abuse
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Jimi Hendrix
    • leeches
    MBX008233
    Katherine Shaw and Carol Graham
    51:38
    Katherine Shaw and Carol Graham
    Lilly Sullivan
    June 23, 2011 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Katherine Shaw (47) and wife Carol Graham (54) talk about their sons, who passed away in accidents in their early 20s.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cemetery traditions
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    MBY006073
    Amelia Vara, Mary  Hernandez, and Dawn Leal
    38:01
    Amelia Vara, Mary Hernandez, and Dawn Leal
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    December 18, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Amelia Alice Vara (87) talks with daughter Mary Hernandez (65) and granddaughter Dawn Leal (37) about her service to her community.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • apprenticeships
    • Catholic Daughters
    • community worthies
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Denver Harbor Civic Club
    • Denver Harbor Garden Club
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Hidalgo Park
    • illness
    LMN002824
    Clarissa Kirschenbaum and Gabriel Gonzalez
    38:59
    Clarissa Kirschenbaum and Gabriel Gonzalez
    Helen Rubinstein
    September 8, 2011 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Clarissa Kirschenbaum (62) remembers her brother, Victor Wald, who died in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, with her significant other, Gabriel Gonzalez (58).

    • 2001
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • City College (NY)
    • college
    • Columbia University
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • historical events/people
    • Holocaust Survivors
    • kidney infection
    • memories of growing up
    • New York city
    • personal experiences
    • psychic reading
    • religious beliefs and practices
    MBX004079
    Louise Szimonisz and Susan Szimonisz
    01:18:50
    Louise Szimonisz and Susan Szimonisz
    whenry-lester
    July 19, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Susan interviews her mother, Louise (who has stage 4 Lung Cancer) about her childhood, her career, and memories of her husband.

    • Appalachia
    • birth of first child
    • blood poisoning
    • breast cancer
    • Convent
    • Doctor
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Galvaston, TX
    • Greycliff Mansion
    • historical events/people
    • Hungarian Revolution
    • Hungary
    • Kentucky
    • Lung cancer
    MBX005893
    Djibril Cisse, Oulimata Sylla, and Patricia Carlin
    31:17
    Djibril Cisse, Oulimata Sylla, and Patricia Carlin
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    October 4, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Oulimata Sylla, Djibril Cisse, and Patricia Carlin, talk about Ouli’s recent arrival from Senegal to finally be reunited with her husband.

    • Africa
    • Celebrations
    • Chicago
    • Christian
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cooperation
    • English
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Green card
    • Homework
    • Immigrants
    • immigration
    • Kalamazoo
    • lottery visa
    • Muslim
    MBX005114
    Ann Hartzog Hall and Rebecca Williams
    01:07:41
    Ann Hartzog Hall and Rebecca Williams
    Nina Porzucki
    April 4, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Ann Hartzog Hall, 76, is interviewed by her friend, Rebecca Williams, 47, about her parents.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Engineer
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • psychotherapist
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    MPL000520
    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    49:38
    Charlene Robinson and Sonja Scott Woods
    Becky Homann
    January 12, 2008 Milwaukee Public Library

    Charlene Robinson and her niece, Sonja Scott Woods discuss their family history.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of growing up
    • Mother’s Day
    • personal experiences
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • Slave Narratives recordings
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    GRB000832
    Emma Lou Dailey and Claire Stallworth
    01:30:41
    Emma Lou Dailey and Claire Stallworth
    Naomi Greene
    February 1, 2008 Griot Booth

    Claire interviews Emma Lou about growing up in Chestnut, Alabama. Emma Lou remembers from childhood about her mother, great-grandmother and her brother, Jim.

    • Amazing Grace
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Blind Man Savage
    • Chestnut, Alabama
    • Childhood Games
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Jeffery Montgomery
    • Jim Montgomery
    • Lucinda Montgomery Stallworth
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Out house
    NPL000023
    Helen Watson and Edie Wear
    01:14:16
    Helen Watson and Edie Wear
    Esi Arthur
    October 6, 2007 Nashville Public Library

    Daughter Edie Wear interviews her mother Helen Watson

    • birth of first child
    • cornsilk
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Episcopal
    • ether
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Goose Tatum
    • Harlem Globetrotters
    • Hazard, Kentucky
    • Mary Breckenridge Frontier Nursing Service
    • poor
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    MBY000748
    Vi Lewis and Patti Busse
    35:05
    Vi Lewis and Patti Busse
    skramer
    November 5, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Woman interviews her mother about growing up, her children, husbands, and political activism, and living through hardship.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Gone With The Wind
    • lesson-have faith and don’t give up
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • southern graciousness
    • Spouse
    • Television
    SFB000639
    Carol Chadwick, Patty Jones, and Cathy Chadwick
    00:00
    Carol Chadwick, Patty Jones, and Cathy Chadwick
    Alex Lyon
    January 3, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Carol Chadwick (78) talks to her daughters Patty Jones (44) and Cathy Chadwick (49) about growing up on an Indian Reservation and meeting her late husband.

    • aplogy
    • Canada
    • childhood
    • Eulogy
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Farms
    • fond memories
    • Indian reservation
    • Living together
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    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
    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
    MBY005835
    Siegfried Buss and Frieda Nossaman
    37:22
    Siegfried Buss and Frieda Nossaman
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    October 12, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

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

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Church
    • college
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • German
    • Germany
    • Hirohito
    • historical events/people
    • Japan
    • Japanese Emperor
    MBY006293
    Maria Meza-Ayala and Maribel Meza
    36:58
    Maria Meza-Ayala and Maribel Meza
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    March 10, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Maria Meza-Ayala (89) habla con su hija Maribel Meza (25) de su vida en Mexico. [Maria Meza-Ayala (89) talks with her daughter Maribel Meza (25) about her life in Mexico.]

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Appearance
    • conjuring
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • historical events/people
    • luck and fate
    • magical beliefs and practices
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    DDC000821
    Camille Warzecha and Patricia Quinn
    35:33
    Camille Warzecha and Patricia Quinn
    Naomi Greene
    May 17, 2010 Door-to-Door Kit C

    Pat Quinn (63) interviews her friend, Camille Warzecha (67) about her family and how she came to live in Little Falls, MN. Camille talks about her ancestry and retells the stories of how her grandparents came to the United States.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Cape May, NJ
    • college
    • doctor wars
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • John Wanamaker
    • Little Falls, MN
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • New Orleans, LA
    • personal experiences
    MBX005288
    Glen Waggoner and Daniel Okrent
    01:22:56
    Glen Waggoner and Daniel Okrent
    Nina Porzucki
    May 11, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Glen Waggoner (61) talks with his friend Daniel Okrent (61) about the death of his father, their love of baseball, and growing up in a small town.

    • affairs
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Civil Rights
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Detroit Tigers
    • Detroit, MI
    • Dunkenville, TX
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • memories of former times
    MBX005522
    Kim  Schaff and Laura Norris
    38:25
    Kim Schaff and Laura Norris
    Jeremy Helton
    July 10, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Kim Schaff (53) and Laura Norris (48) talk about their friendship and their families.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • bandage
    • Barbara
    • Brandon
    • choreography
    • church of Christ
    • clothes
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Cork
    • Dancing
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Flowers
    • Injuries
    • Joe
    MBY003724
    Betty Jane Isaacs Moczygemba, Mary Margaret Isaacs Inselmann, and Mary Jane Moczygemba Verette
    39:57
    Betty Jane Isaacs Moczygemba, Mary Margaret Isaacs Inselmann, and Mary Jane Moczygemba Verette
    Rose Gorman
    March 6, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Betty Jane Moczygemba, Mary Inselmann, and Mary Jane Verette remember Genevieve Isaacs, Betty and Mary’s mother and Mary Jane’s grandmother.

    • American Revolution
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Benjamin Hammond
    • cemetery traditions
    • Christopher Hammond
    • Clower Street (San Antonio, TX)
    • egg dyeing parties
    • family in-jokes
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Genevieve Isaacs
    • illness
    • Ireland
    • John Gibson
    • memories of growing up
    MBY004963
    Milena Muzquiz and Stephanie Taylor
    37:58
    Milena Muzquiz and Stephanie Taylor
    Nina Porzucki
    January 29, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Milena Muzquiz (31) is interviewed by her friend, Stephanie Taylor (37) about growing up and her move to the U.S. from Tijuana when she was in elementary school.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Art School
    • Childhood Games
    • college
    • family expressions
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • fresas
    • Influential People
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mexico
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