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Anne and I talked about her experience in coming to the United States. She arrived at Ellis Island with her husband in 1947.

This is a spoken poem of my moms coming to America story.

I interviewed my grandmother

Interview of my stepfather Fred Garnon at cook Forest Pennsylvania

Writing and how it helps you cope. And about learning to live with yourself

My mother’s side of the family

We talk about our my grandmothers grandmother

we talked about growing up and lessons we learned in life.

Mireille's family was living a very nice life in Brussels, Belgium when the Nazis swept through Europe. Her father had a successful business making outerwear and when the Nazis got to Brussels, they commandeered the factory, keeping him on to...

Dishing the gossip with my grandparents about their lives and what it was like growing up in their generation. *Funny stories alert!*

Tad tells us about taking stewardship over Opus 40 in the wake of his mother's sudden death. The early days of navigating an Earthwork and a young nonprofit. Stories about the evolution of the concert series and some of its...

"I was able to stay safe for a little while...but not long." Persistent and determined are adjectives too timid still to describe Marti Randall. After serving in the Marine Corps in the mid-1970's, she moved to Saugerties where she trained...

Talks about an immigrant coming to the US

Interview with Breanne Layton about her experience while incarcerated in the Ulster County Jail

Audrey explains her start in genealogy and how her insatiable curiosity has propelled her to record life and death in Saugerties. Everybody knows Audrey. And now that she's powered by a laptop and Google, rather than pen or copier, Audrey...

We talked about her childhood and growing up when she did, what her life was like and what she enjoys.

We talked about Margaret’s life and how proud she is of her children and her students. She shared how she would like to be remembered for her love of life. She shared happy moments and sad ones.

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My Grandma describes her trip over to America. She also describes how her life has been lived after that event.

this is an interview about a displaced person. The story of how she got to America. And how it was like as a child going through Ellis island and starting a new life in America. 

Ukrainian Immigrant, Helen Fitzmartin, describes her early life and what she has learned from the U.S.

An interview with my grandmother, Maureen Allgrove including a description of her life in Jamaica, her wonderful childhood, her career, her hopes for her children, and grandchildren. In this interview she will also discuss her proposal and some Jamaican culture...

Richard (50) and Kim (45) interviewed Dorothy (88) about her life through the years as well as some of the highlights and challenges.

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.

This is an interview with my Grandfather about his parents and his life growing up as the youngest son of an immigrant family from Italy.