“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
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“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
“It was a filthy job.”
Mark Sullivan remembers working summers on a tobacco farm in the late 1950s.
Recorded in Hartford, CT
“He made me his little helper...”
90-year-old James Lacy tells his daughter, Jamie Breed, about his father's general store in Comanche County, Texas.
Recorded in Abilene, TX
“How did you get by?”
Jerry Johnson interviews his mother, Carrie Conley, about raising six children as a single mother.
Recorded in Detroit, MI
“She bought me a bra that you blow up...”
94-year-old Betty Jenkins remembers a gift from her mother.
Recorded in Cincinnati, OH
“Let's talk about Miss Devine.”
James Ransom and Cherie Johnson remember their neighbor and Sunday school teacher.
Recorded in Sarasota, FL