Seán Lennon and his mother Yoko Ono

“You don't have to be dirty to be poor.”

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94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

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Recorded in Knoxville, TN.

“Ron was someone who didn't accept societal norms as being his norm.”

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Carl McNair remembers his brother, Ronald McNair, who was one of the astronauts killed aboard the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986. Read more…

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“My father would be in his boxer shorts in front of the stereo with a baton.”

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Laura Greenberg tells her daughter, Rebecca, about growing up in Queens during the 1950s.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“My dad had a fair amount of self-confidence and bravado.”

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Erin Ryan remembers her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated in 1978 while on a fact-finding mission to Jonestown, Guyana.

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Recorded in Washington, D.C.

“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

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Rob Littlefield remembers being bullied in junior high school for being gay.

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Recorded in Oklahoma City, OK.

“My dad in Cuba said, 'When you go there you're going to ask for George.'”

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Jose "Pepe" Noriega , one of over 14,000 children who came to the U.S. as part of Operation Pedro Pan, speaks with Lynn Guarch Pardo about the role her father, Jorge "George" Guarch, played in the historic airlift.

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Recorded in Coral Gables, FL.

“She didn't have very much warmth about her...”

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Don Michaels tells his daughter Jennifer about his fifth grade teacher.

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Recorded in Bellefonte, PA.

“I found out what girls were...”

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Jim Crane tells his daughter Missy Worden what he liked best about college.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“The train stopped and I thought we were somewhere like Colorado...”

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Bud Norton tells his nephew Tim Locher about his childhood adventures growing up in Kansas.

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Recorded in Kansas City, MO.

“It was a really wonderful, amazing world that came crashing down.”

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Stefan Lynch Strassfeld talks to his friend Beth Teper about growing up with gay parents in the 1980s.

To see a photo of Stefan's aunties, click here.

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Recorded in San Francisco, CA.

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