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In this interview, conducted in November 2023 in Valparaiso, Indiana, Sadie Bolan (16) interviews her father Joseph (62) about his life— beginning at his high school career— and leading up to his life in the present. With school, he talks...

Erma Lusier (78) tells her granddaughter, Kimberly Uhuru (42) about her childhood and favorite memories growing up in Detroit, MI.

Sisters Rebekah Sager (55) and Julie Varee (63) talk about their deep bond despite growing up in separate households.

Kalie Shockney (17) gets together with Brandi Duncan (40) to talk about how being a part of Whitley County Consolidated Schools has affected her life. Brandi is an elementary school for Coesse Elementary school. A question asked in the interview...

Nicholas Denysenko (46) interviews his church member Michael Gruszyk (55) about how he started coming to the Eastern Orthodox Church as a teenager, his education at Valparaiso University, and how the death of family members influenced his faith.

My name is Ozan Kara and I am a 17 years old cultural exchange student from Turkey. As an high school student in Bloomington, Indiana, I have had the chance to know a wonderful person, Vanessa Domizlaff, my German teacher...

Joyce Chase (60) interviews her father, James “Jim” Chase (88), about his time in the United States Army and Air Force.

Allison Schuette (45) interviews Dave Overholt (73) about the life he made in Kouts, Indiana after he decided to move there in the 1960s with his wife. He describes how farming and other industries have changed as the area's residents...

Alexia Dukes (25) and her mentor, Maria Rivera (47), talk about their work as high school teachers, how the COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted their work and their students' lives, and their hopes for the next school year.

Phares O'Daffer (87) talks to his daughter, Sara Marberry (61), about growing up on a farm in Illinois, his teaching and writing career, caring for his late wife, and why the phrase, "Boots full of fish" describes him so well.

Kathleen McConahay (61) recounts to her husband, Mark McConahay (62) what she found after entering her long deceased Grandpa Bob's house and how the artifacts she discovered allowed her to get to know aspects of her mother she had never...

Jennifer Gerstorff (28) asks her grandmother Helen Marjadeen Houlton (88) about her life growing up and about her husband Louis, who passed away from cancer.

Jamie Citerin talks with her mother (64) about her life from growing up in Elkhart Indiana to family history, to being a young mother in the 1970's, from her faith to historical events that she has witnessed/experienced.

I asked her questions related to what made her into the person she is today. I also asked her questions related to memories that will stick with her for the rest of her life.

Carolyn Ewing (65) reminisces with her husband, Abdul Salaam Ewing (64), on their varying influences in their path to Islam.

Sisters Alexis Roberts McMillan [no age given] and Enid Roberts MD [no age given] talk about how growing up alongside Florida A&M University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, as well as with their family’s pharmacy, Economy Drug Store, impacted...