“I spent a couple of years overcompensating as a father.”
Joseph Natale (L) tells his son Greg (R) about raising three children after the death of his wife.
Recorded in Buffalo, NY
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“He just won't get out of my mind...”
10 year-old Frankie DeVito remembers his grandfather, Bill Steckman, in an interview with his mother Diana. Bill Steckman was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11th.
Recorded in Baldwin, NY Click here for more 9/11 stories
“The avenue was full of two things: bars and churches.”
Betty Esper talks to her friend Mark Fallon about life in Homestead, before the U.S. Steel mill closed in the 1980s.
Recorded in Homestead, PA
“We really didn't know what we were doing.”
Brooklyn-born Joe Spano tells his son Joe Jr. about opening a small Italian restaurant in Texas.
Recorded in Abilene, TX
“We saw the searchlight from the patrol boat...”
Gustavo Mestas talks to his daughter, Ileana, about escaping from Cuba to the U.S. in 1963.
Recorded in Georgetown, DE Click here for more from Historias.
“The evening that I met her, she had 'Babs' written on her sweater.”
Walter Sonneborn and Babette, his wife of 67 years, remember the summer they first met.
Recorded in Saranac Lake, New York
“When I was 10, I told my parents I was going to marry a man.”
Robert Madden (R) tells his friend Tom Kurthy (L) about coming out to his parents.
Recorded in Santa Monica, CA
“My mother, of course, spoiled me...”
Tom Domingue, who had polio as a child, tells his wife Dotty, about coming home from the hospital.
Recorded in Georgetown, DE
“I wasn't very nice...”
87-year-old Kay Wang tells her granddaughter, Chen, and her son, Cheng, about her childhood.
Kay Wang died of cancer shortly after this interview. Cheng and Chen recorded a second interview to remember her.
Recorded in New York, NY
“My father was everything to me...”
Dr. William Lynn Weaver to his daughter, Kimberly.
Recorded in Atlanta, GA
