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Sisters Hinde Muya and Amina Osman are interviewed by McKenzie Wren. The pair discuss the path that brought them to the United States from a refugee camp in Somalia. Hinde shares her views about the differences between Somali Bantu culture...

One Small Step conversation partners Jean Bourg (78) and Brad Sealfon (36) talk about family, growing up, religion, sexuality, community, libraries, planning boards, and living in small towns.

William McAllister was interviewed by his daughters, Lisa McAllister and Amy Farges, as well as his grandson, Julien Farges. They talked about William’s life growing up, the Depression, WWII, William’s return to college after the war, his Masters and PhD,...

Two brothers, ages 9 and 13, remember their father who died on 9-11-01

Kelli Fox, 42, interviews her colleague Steven Forrest, 60, about his occupation as an astrologer.

Julia Bagladi Molnar tells her kids about her life in Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution, her family’s escape to the US after the Soviet crackdown, and living in Boston and California, while keeping Hungarian traditions alive.

Life Partners Walter Davis (64) and Bill Fields (55) talk about the one room school houses, the Peace Corps, their Unitarian Universalist Church, and other places where they’ve found a sense of community and what the word means to them.

Genie Hargrove (55) talks with her friends Doug Keith (43) and Joe Windish (56) about her journey to becoming a Baptist minister and reconciling that with her identity as a lesbian and a woman.

Jim Chesnutt interviews his friend Michael Rieger about their mutual September 11th experience in New York City as photographers during the World Trade Center tragedy.

Kohei tells his mother, Penny, about hopping trains, adventuring, and having a son.

Mirta Mihovilovic (63) and her cousins Angelina Thomas (88) and Mark Thomas (59) talk about their family history and how they recently came into contact with one another.

Richard interviews his mother Yvonne about growing up in New York City, her survival of various cancers, and her children.

Jamie Bronstein interviews her mother Susan Bronstein about her childhood, career, and family.

Darlene Lodge, 80, talks with her daughter, Lynn Payne, 56, about growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during the Depression and about her marriages to Lynn’s father and to Donald Lodge.

Candice Romanow (64) tells facilitator Daniel Littlewood (32) about being in San Francisco in the 1960s, living alone in the woods, and her travels in Cambodia.

Craig Jurgensen is interviewed by his son John Jurgensen about becoming a doctor, his focus on neurology, specializing in Parkinsons Disease and diagnosing and treating his wife for memory loss in his retirement.

Jodie Reams tells his sister Lula Reams about growing up in TN and WI, and his experience at the SE Johnson Wax company.

Barry Benepe talks to his son Adrian Benepe about growing up with a love of nature, his process of learning about art, and the Greenmarket in New York that he founded

Suzanne Nikolaisen (39) interviews her father, Henry J. Johnson Jr. (82) about his career in aeronautical engineering.

Fran interviews her mother, Stella, on her birthday. Stella talks about her earliest memories and growing up on a farm.

Paige Ann Ingalls (PA) interviews her friends James Albetta (JA) and Bob Hoffman (BH). They share their memories of the time they spent at Ingalside Farm as teenagers.

Richard Huff and his wife, Agnes Huff, remember her parents who were killed in a car accident 2 years ago.

Kathryn Coumanis (73) talks with friend and colleage Carolyn Thomas (68) about their work to establish domestic violence shelters in Alabama and early resistance in the 1970s.

Clara “Lola” McFarland, 74, was interviewed by her niece-in-law, Beth DeCarbo, 43. The talked about the origin of Clara’s nickname, Lola. Primarily they talked about Clara’s family from the time she was born to the present.