Category: Growing Up

Penelope Simmons remembers her mother, Cora Lee "Sug" Collins, in an interview with her daughter Suzanne Wayne.

Recorded in Bellefonte, PA.

Meliza Arellano tells Sarah Benko, her former seventh-grade teacher, about how she became a serious student.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Sarah Littman interviews her son, Joshua, who has Asperger's syndrome, about his first semester at college. Read more…

Recorded in New York, NY.

Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

Recorded in New York, NY.

A.P. Tureaud Jr. (R) tells his friend Steven Walkley (L) about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Harvey Sherman remembers October 3, 1951, when the Brooklyn Dodgers lost the pennant on a home run known as the "shot heard 'round the world." Read more…

Recorded in New York, NY.

Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Recorded in Roanoke, VA.

72-year-old Ellaraino (R) tells her friend Baki AnNur (L) about meeting her great-grandmother for the first time.

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA.

Robert Stover tells his daughter, Valerie Anderson about growing up in the 1930's.

Recorded in Howard, PA.

Frank Kovac talks about building the world's largest rotating-globe planetarium. Read more…

Recorded in Monico, WI.