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“And right then it dawned on me -- that's not family, those aren't friends.”
Omar Leech (R) tells his friend Lenear Pryor about life as a gang member.
Recorded in Atlanta, GA.
“A car drove up late evening...”
Trudy Henry tells her daughter Jan Scoggins about some unexpected visitors.
Recorded in Garden City, KS.
“I really, at first, didn't want to pick the parents...”
Stacy Cooper (L) to Karen Smith (R), who is raising Stacy's biological daughter in an open adoption.
Recorded in Hartford, CT.
“My grandmother used to take my brother and myself to the south every summer...”
Jim McFarland remembers traveling from New York City to the segregated south as a boy.
“The day that we put him on the plane was one of the saddest days of my life.”
Eileen Tarr and her sister Ellen Hess remember their father leaving for the Vietnam War.
Recorded in Richmond, VA.
“It wasn't love at first sight, but there was some kind of a recognition.”
Don Boniface and his life partner, Ted Kuhar, talk about how their relationship began.
Recorded in Burlington, VT.
“Liddy did things on her own schedule...”
Thom and Karen Horsey remember their daughter, Liddy, who had Cornelia de Lange Syndrome. Liddy died from an illness unrelated to CdLS.
“The first flight I had was an early morning flight...”
Dorothy Hayes tells her son, Keys, about being an airline stewardess in the 1940s.
Recorded in Jackson, MS.
“Mom and Dad drove that Model T truck loaded to the hilt...”
Evelyn Palmour and her sister, Doreene McCoy, remember moving to Oklahoma during the Depression.
“My mother was only prepared for one...”
Roberta Keys Torn, a quadruplet, tells her daughter, Susan Young, about the night she and her sisters were born in 1915.
Recorded in Houston, TX.
