A Reflection On The Past

Janis Diamond (74) talks with her grandson Thomas Gauthier (16) about her childhood and how the world has changed since then.

One Small Step: Christi

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Chris

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Sylvio

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Angela

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Kyle

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Jeff

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Amanda

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Aoky

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Lori

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

Evaluating artistic potential with Jen Waldman

Mara Jill Herman (Astoria) interviews Jen Waldman (Manhattan) on May 12, 2021. They discuss early dance recitals, teenage enterprising, getting messy with Musical Theater, YoungArts, and adapting the Jen Waldman Studio to a thriving virtual community.

One Small Step: Allison

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

The Check-in Counter Desk

At 16 years of age, my mom, Sohpie Ricordel, had a decision made by her father, Daniel, that changed her life. My grandfather was a school teacher and principal who made difficult decisions for his students and his family. If...

One Small Step: Deborah

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Carolyn

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set. Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Lexi

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

One Small Step: Leah

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

“We had a shuffle board tournament party and we invited John Lennon”

Scott Sklar grew up in Manhattan as the son of Rick Sklar, who ran ABC Radio in New York. His childhood was something special, as he was constantly in the presence of popular culture icons and attended some of the...

“It was a better use of my life.”

Father Frank DeSiano calls himself a "lifer." He entered the Paulist junior seminary as a teenager. That was more than 45 years ago. He's a noted leader in evangelization or sharing of the Catholic faith. Father Frank has been the...

Covid-19: Maria Trajtenberg

Jackie Neale interviews her undergraduate photography student, Maria Trajtenberg while we are conducting interviews and taking photographs for our storytelling project, The Corona Collective. Maria is living in TriBeCa New York City through the pandemic, and talks about how she...

One Small Step: Caitlyn

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.

“The ultimate meaning:” A Classics Publisher

It's a go-to book series, an encyclopedia of Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Islamic thinkers: Paulist Press' "Classics of Western Spirituality." And it was started under the leadership of Paulist Fr. Kevin Lynch. In this interview, Fr. Kevin, age 93, talks...

One Small Step: Paul

Recorded at the Wooster Square Cherry Blossom Festival on 4/28/19 with the One Small Step question set.