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“The men despised him...”
88-year-old Joseph Miller tells his niece, Diane Himmelbaum, about a relative from Brooklyn.
Recorded in New York, NY.
“Opening day, 1956. It was the Yankees versus the Senators...”
Charlie Brotman tells his friend Tom Wiener about his first day as a baseball announcer.
Recorded in Washington, D.C..
“If you could do anything again, would you raise me differently?”
11-year-old Connor Murphy interviews his mother, Patricia.
Recorded in Madison, WI.
“I was a chubette in high school.”
Helen Regan to her friend Cornelia Corson.
“The whole night I was in labor there was music being piped in...”
Roni Cohen tells her brother, Adam, about giving birth to her son.
“This little white boy said, 'Come, let me see your hands.'”
Claudette Colvin remembers her childhood in Alabama.
“I went into Uncle Jake's room and opened up the dictionary, and in the middle was hidden a magazine...”
84-year-old Miriam Kerpen to her daughter, Lisa Shufro.
“I got a great, big rock, about as big as a bowling ball, out of somebody's garden and heaved it through the back window of his car.”
Judy Allen tells a story about her ex-husband to her daughter, Kelley Edwards.
“We were having breakfast at Friendly's and this young couple came in with an autistic child.”
Patricia Attoe to her friend Diana David.
“Then I said, 'Don't you have brothers and sisters and your father?' He says, 'I have no father; I have no mother. So, I have to do this.'”
Beula Gabriel, who founded a school for underprivileged children in India, tells her daughter, Bix, about one of her students.
