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We talked about what it was like for her growing up. We also talked about her sister and what it was like growing up. Finally, we talked about her greatest accomplishments and what she was most proud of.

My Auntie Debbie and I discussed how her experiences as a child traveling to family influenced her as to what family should mean to her today.

Grandpa (Bill Orr), shares some experiences in his life and a couple other questions.

Originally a celebration of Black History Month, February 2018, Middlebury College's Davis Family Library initiated a series of oral interviews, "In Your Own Words." In them, Literatures & Cultures Librarian Katrina Spencer engages members of the community who trace their...

Cece was very outdoorsy and loved her family and relatives.

Poet Molly Peacock (73) talks with her husband, Michael Groden (73), a James Joyce scholar, about their sixty-year love story that was interrupted for twenty years. They talk about ongoing love, Mike's melanoma, the novel Ulysses, and the parallel lives...

American Steve Desroches (47) and Canadian Paul Boyd (50) talk about what the United States and Canada have in common, and what they don't.

Discussed her childhood and how her past has shaped her into the person she has become and how it helped her become a singer.

I sat down with my mom, Marcey Sparenberg, who spoke on behalf of my grandmother, Shirley Sparenberg. She talked about my Grandma and Grandpa's generosity and kindness and how they received something they didn't even begin to expect. This falls...

Daughter interviewing mother about her life

“you have to have a really big why, a reason for living. You have to have a why that runs deep enough in you that it makes you cry, that it just totally wrecks you on the inside and drives...

Alex Semper Upton was a camp counselor for several years through many programs and leaderships. In this interview, she talks about becoming a certified lifeguard, putting on fun shows, and working with kids with Cystic Fibrosis. She talks about how...

Park family (Dave, Bill, Beverly, Frances and Connie) memories, working as a seamstress, The Great Depression, Sadie and General Eisenhower, children’s and widow’s needs after a father’s death.

Questions about the town I live in and his career as an astronaut.

Melrose Kuusinen (69 years old) interviewed by daughter Jackie Kuusinen (40 years old) about her childhood and family history.

For this interview I asked my Dad about my grandparents.

Krista Miller (45) talks with Grady Miller (11) about what college at Clemson was like.

In this interview, made on November 23, 2017, Matthew Cullen (13) interviews his dad's dad name Bernie Cullen (81) about his childhood, his marriage, his children, his grandchildren, and other aspects of his life. Bernie revealed many things to Matthew...

Bob Kuusinen (69 years old) interviewed by daughter Jackie Kuusinen (40 years old) about dad’s childhood and family history. no

We talked a lot about his childhood and family. (There was a glitch with the microphone at the end and the rest of the interview was recorded on voice memo.)

Interviewing my mom’s sister, an aunt of mine that I have always been close with. I found out there is a lot more to her than I thought.

Sebastien and I are starting a new project and we want to explore loneliness in our society, our hypotheses, and our goals for the project.

Steve Desroches (47) and Rod Vaughan (50) talk about Vaughan's background in opera performance and blue grass music, particularly as a banjo player, and how that morphed into the unusual band the Electric Milk Machine in Provincetown, Massachusetts.