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    SPP000116
    Annette Bernstein and Elizabeth Bernstein
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    Annette Bernstein and Elizabeth Bernstein
    Kayvon Bahramian
    February 18, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Great Depression stories
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • social beliefs and practices
    MBX003906
    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
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    David Kuhl and Abigail (Abby) Wheeler
    Michelle Swinehart
    May 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    David Kuhl and Abby Wheeler talk about their family get-togethers and how everyone seems to truly enjoy themselves.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • BB gun
    • Birthday Celebrations, Birthday Cake
    • Childhood Games
    • Christmas, Christmas Eve
    • Cold War
    • family characters
    • Family gatherings
    • Family Legacy
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions, Rites of Passage
    • Fireworks, Firecrackers
    • Great Depression stories
    • Independence day
    • memories of former times
    MBX004373
    Kenneth Lynch and Kathleen  Wright
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    Kenneth Lynch and Kathleen Wright
    Nina Porzucki
    September 25, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Kathleen Wright, 41, interviews her father Kenneth Lynch, 67, about his childhood.

    • City of Baltimore Housing Authority
    • college
    • Daniel Brewster
    • family characters
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • Godwin
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Poly High School
    • school day memories
    • Spouse
    • University of Maryland
    • Westingham Electronics
    MBX004651
    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
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    Edward Guczek and Jennifer Sawyer
    Nina Porzucki
    November 29, 2008 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Edward Guczek, 87, is interviewed by his granddaughter, Jennifer Sawyer, 21, about his life.

    • 1935 Ford
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • Butterfly Ballroom
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Commerce High School
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Diabetic
    • Dialysis
    • Eddie’s Service Station
    • Elmer’s Tune
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • Lebanese
    • Lincoln Zephyr
    • memories of former times
    MBY004733
    Mary  Issacson and Julie Summers
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    Mary Issacson and Julie Summers
    cscott
    November 13, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mary Isaacson (46) and Julie Summers (46) discuss their time spent with the CampFire organization. They have been involved in some capacity since high school and are both current Board Members

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • CampFire, Camping, camp scott murders, merchandising, occupational therapy, spiritual leadership, camp counselors, board members, cancer, bonds formed during camp,
    • Childhood Games
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    GRB000611
    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
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    Akiba Shabazz, Naja Shabazz, and Zuri Shabazz
    Brianna Hyneman
    November 23, 2007 Griot Booth

    Akiba Shabazz talks with her daughters Naja and Zuri about her life growing up with her parents in Memphis, her marriages and travels.

    • birth of first child
    • college
    • colon cancer
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • France
    • Influential People
    • Italy
    • memories of growing up
    • Muslim
    • Nightclubs
    • novels
    • personal experiences
    • racist killing
    MBY001956
    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane  Reeves
    00:00
    Joseph Andy Holmes and Michael Dane Reeves
    Ryan Murdock
    August 27, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Michael and Joseph talk about their father/son relationship and their sexuality.

    • Appearance
    • birth of first child
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Prejudice
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • scientific beliefs and practices
    • Sexual orientation
    • social beliefs and practices
    spp000962
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    00:00
    Thomas Ziegler and Emily Feit
    rpeltzman
    December 23, 2004 Sound Portraits Productions

    Retired FDNY speaks about experiences in the fire department

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Injuries
    • memories of former times
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • street patterns
    SFB000394
    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
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    Joyce Hayes and Tanene Allison
    Frank Kingman
    July 5, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Joyce Hayes, 64, talks with her friend Tanene, 28, about growing up in Chicago and her involvement with social work, education and politics.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Chicago IL
    • college
    • family characters
    • family expressions
    • family heroes
    • family members in history
    • historical events/people
    • Influential People
    • John F. Kennedy
    • Mayor Richard Daley (Chicago)
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    MBX005185
    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
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    Bernard Scott Rush and Nicole Rush Free
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    April 18, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Bernard Scott Rush, 68, by his daughter, Nicole Rush (Maat Free), 35, about growing up in Mississippi then moving to New York City.

    • African heritage
    • Ancestors
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brooklyn, NY
    • Choktaw words
    • Cotton gin
    • Cotton picking
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Emmett Till
    • family expressions
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • Harlem, NY
    • Lynching
    SCK001735
    Marjorie Jean Wood and [No Name Given] [No Name Given]
    48:36
    Marjorie Jean Wood and [No Name Given] [No Name Given]
    No Facilitator
    September 23, 2009 StoryKit

    • college
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • painting as a life’s work, not a hobby
    • women’s institutes
    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
    MBX006240
    William  Silva and Laylah Silva
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    William Silva and Laylah Silva
    Virginia Lora
    January 17, 2010 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    William Silva, 63, and his daughter, Laylah Silva, 38 talk about William’s life growing up coming back an d forth from Cuba to the United States, and their unconventional family.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Black
    • Bohemian
    • bottle cap
    • chapita
    • Childhood Games
    • Church
    • clb house
    • Cuavitas
    • Cuba
    • family members in history
    • Fidel Castro
    • Fights
    • first impression of America
    • France
    LMN001459
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    01:17:50
    Martin Blank and Jairo Alcantara
    cscott
    April 17, 2009 Lower Manhattan StoryBooth

    Martin Blank (72) is interviewed by his friend Jairo Alcantara (17). Martin discusses with Jairo the vast differences between being homosexual when he was young and being homosexual now.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Coming Out
    • Commitment
    • Community support
    • Denial
    • dysfunctional families
    • family feuds
    • Family Traditions
    • fantasies
    • flamboyance
    • gay high schools
    • Gay Relationships
    • Homosexuality
    • Influential People
    MBX003268
    Ruth Murphy and Jacques Murphy
    38:02
    Ruth Murphy and Jacques Murphy
    Mike Rauch
    November 10, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Ruth remembers her college days, her first jobs, and her husband.

    • 9/11
    • Atomic bomb
    • Bethany WV
    • California
    • Church
    • college
    • del Coronado Hotel
    • Dish washer
    • dryer
    • Honeymoon
    • Husband
    • Japan
    • Laundry
    • Manhattan Project
    • memoirs
    MBY007000
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey  Adamson
    01:19:24
    Judy Hultquist and Lyndsey Adamson
    Dana Glass
    September 26, 2010 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lyndsey Adamson (16) interviews her grandmother Judy Hultquist (65) about raising children and her memories of Lyndsey’s childhood.

    • Abortion
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunts
    • Babies
    • birth of first child
    • California
    • Catholic
    • Chemotherapy
    • Democratic
    • discipline
    • Falling
    • family in-jokes
    • Fighting
    • First day of school
    • Grandmother
    MBY001294
    Adrienne Ruby and Andrew Lewis
    43:28
    Adrienne Ruby and Andrew Lewis
    Emily Janssen
    March 30, 2006 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    A 41-year old man interviews his 63 year-old friend and vetrinarian about her work on the Hopi and Navajo Reservations and also tells the story of how they met.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • City dogs versus Reservation Dogs
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family trips and excursions
    • Kiva Dances
    • Life on the Reservation
    • Money
    • near-death experiences
    • personal experiences
    • Road condiitions
    • street patterns
    • vegetables
    • Vetrinarian Stories
    • work space, hardhat, etc. decorations
    GCT001588
    Frank Vincent Iudica, Lucia Maria Affi Iudica, Carla Iudica-Souza, and Paula Iudica-Costa
    01:23:11
    Frank Vincent Iudica, Lucia Maria Affi Iudica, Carla Iudica-Souza, and Paula Iudica-Costa
    jangelos
    June 11, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Duaghters Interview Father and Mother for Father’s Birthday

    • Accidents
    • Appreciation for America and opportunity
    • baby pictures
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Dutch
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • Economic Difficulty of Raising a family
    • Falling off a cliff
    • family characters
    • Family Traditions
    • Immigration from Holland
    • Immigration from Sicily
    • Italian
    • memories of former times
    MBY000434
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    42:21
    Mark Solomon and Jeanne Clothiaux
    jangelos
    August 27, 2005 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Wife interviews husband about the building of thier home on the top of Moscow Mountain, activism, environmentalism, and his making of a giant mobile steel fire-breathing dragon

    • 14 foot snows
    • ancient cedar trees
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • arcosanti
    • blacksmith
    • boy dylan
    • buidling of home on Moscow Mountain
    • canyons, mountains, wheatfields, rivers
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • county commissioner
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • creating fabricated steel dragon
    • dragon man
    • ecology
    • environmentalism
    MBX005856
    Richard Brinn and Andrea Brinn Wolfe
    38:55
    Richard Brinn and Andrea Brinn Wolfe
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    September 26, 2009 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Richard Brian, 63, by his daughter, Andrea Brinn Wolfe, 33, about being an artist and a father.

    • Art Cislo
    • Art teacher
    • Artist
    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • Colors
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • figure drawing
    • memories of growing up
    • Michigan Gallery
    • personal experiences
    MBX001432
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    01:16:00
    Richard B Stone, Deborah Poznansky, and Nancy Stone Pozanansky
    Nadja Middleton
    May 28, 2006 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    The family talks about their father/ grandfather/ great grandfather who is nearly 100 years old.

    • Aliyah (Israel)
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • Courtesy
    • Creativity
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • employee loyalty
    • family hotel
    • Family reunions
    • historical events/people
    • memories of growing up
    • Miami
    • Money
    • Mottos
    • personal experiences
    gct001181
    Zdenka Nelson and Kirstin Nelson
    01:16:58
    Zdenka Nelson and Kirstin Nelson
    lspero
    March 13, 2005 Grand Central StoryBooth

    Daughter interviews mom about marriage and small hometown in Nebraska, where she grew up in the 1930s and 40s.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • approaching end of life, changes with illness
    • charity, helping the poor
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Spouse
    MBX002413
    Paula Harper, Sara Mooney, and Martha Harper
    01:21:51
    Paula Harper, Sara Mooney, and Martha Harper
    Sarah Geis
    March 18, 2007 MobileBooth East (MBX)

    Sisters Sara, 45, Martha, 42, and Paula, 47, talk about their evolving relationship with each other and the different ways they see their parents.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Brian Harper
    • Dona Harper
    • Donna Shepard
    • family feuds
    • Family reunions
    • Family Traditions
    • John F. Kennedy
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • mental illness
    • Michael Harper
    • personal experiences
    • social beliefs and practices
    • Todd Harper
    MBY002937
    Clarice M. Richardson and Kathryn (Katie) Clemons
    38:29
    Clarice M. Richardson and Kathryn (Katie) Clemons
    Mitra Bonshahi
    July 5, 2007 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Kathryn interviews her grandmother, Clarice, about moving to Butte, Montana, having ten children, and her husband, George, who had Alzheimer’s.

    • Alzheimer’s Disease
    • butte
    • Church
    • college
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • general custer
    • grocery shopping
    • illness
    • memories of growing up
    • mineral and gem club
    • Montana
    • personal experiences
    • pregnancy and pre-natal care
    • religious beliefs and practices
    • school day memories
    SFD000142
    George Gingerelli and George Gingerelli
    42:30
    George Gingerelli and George Gingerelli
    Eloise Melzer
    May 19, 2010 San Francisco Door-To-Door

    George M. Gingerelli, 66, talks with his father George J. Gingerelli, 92, about his love of art and his family.

    • Aegis of Las Vegas
    • Alio Delmolino
    • American Printing
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • art schools
    • Betty Grigarauskas
    • Bloomingdale Court
    • California
    • Carmella Dautoff
    • Chelsea Miller
    • Cheryl Miller
    • Christmas Traditions
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • Daw” Scano
    • Drawings
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