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In this interview, conducted in November 2017 in Greenville, South Carolina, Anna(14) and her grandmother talk about how different life was for young people in the 1950s. They also discuss what their family was like 60 years ago. Mary talks...

In my interview I talk to my aunt about how society has progressed and how it has shaped her. We talk about how art is a big part of her life. She tells me about some of our family traditions....

We spoke about Ginette’s time in France, her travel to America, and important people in her life.

In this interview I ask my Nana about what her life was like growing up in the 1950s as the oldest child. She had a very hard life taking care of her siblings because both of her parents had to...

In this interview, completed in November 2017, Lila Gaudrault (15) interviews grandmother Kathleen Caron (67). The interview includes her story growing up, raising a family, and her values to live by. Mrs. Caron talks about her experiences as the first...

On November 26th McKenna Steiner interviews her grandmother, Bunny Steiner at their home in Plano TX. Bunny gives details about her life growing up in the 1950s as a Catholic in a small town. She tells of the fun and...

My father's recollection of his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1940's and 1950's.

Grandma has been living with Gavin (age 6), his sister Audra (she 3) for 5 months. Today he asked her questions about growing up in Illinois and raising her family in Colorado

Growing up in Irvington, NJ 1950

We discussed Mark's upbringing during the Depression & WWII, his wife & family, his engineering career, & his love of Bridge and basketball!

Marci describes her experience with polio at 7 years old as well as the ways in which it has affected her life.

This Nurse, Wife, Mother, and Grandmother talks about her childhood in the Philippines and her path to the US.

Judy shares what she sees changing in SF currently and how her own life changed with involvement in the 1968 SF State strike, joining the women's movement, and going to Cuba in 1973.

Zack Zappone and his Grandpa Dave King sneak away during halftime of the football game to record a conversation about what life was like growing up in Spokane in the 1950s

Our family’s history with hemophilia and its treatment complications, including HIV, Hepatitis, and inhibitors. As we near a cure, we remember the past.

Roy Koshy (37) interviews his father, Thomas Koshy (77) about his life growing up in India, his impressions of the United States when he moved there, his jobs, and his approach to life.

Kristen Pierce (44) speaks with her father James Wallace (74) about his life and times as an engineer.

My father's parents and his childhood in Long Island, 1950s.

Margot Moinester, 22, and Arielle Moinester, 30, ask their mother, Susan Moinester, 56, about her parents who survived the Holocaust.

Robert (Bob) Larsen talks with his son Robert Larsen II and daughter Karen Larsen about growing up in Rawlins, his first wife Georgia and his second wife Patricia, and his mother, who lived to be 103 years old.