Category: Growing Up

“When I was put up as president of the student body, she created a groundswell against me.”

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92-year-old Martin Levin tells his granddaughters Jennifer Goebel (L) and Zoe Crowe (R) about a college classmate he didn't like.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“All of my friends know me to be outspoken...”

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William Anthony Cobb tells his mother, Mary, about the influence she had on him. William Anthony also talks with his sister, Valerie Foster, about their mother.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”

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James Hanover Thompson (L) tells his brother Dwight (R) about his involvement in the "Kissing Case" of 1958. Read more…

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Recorded in Wilmington, NC.

“I was scared to death.”

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Steven Wells tells his daughter, Jennifer, how it felt to become a dad.

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Recorded in Macon, GA.

“I wasn't like other kids.”

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Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago. Read more…

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Recorded in Madison, WI.

“There was no doubt in my mind, I was going to work along side of my dad, my granddad, my uncles.”

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Retired teacher George Lengel remembers growing up in the company town of Roebling, NJ. Read more…

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Recorded in Trenton, NJ.

“He'd go into the kitchen and get this big, ugly, brown bottle...”

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Lee Mottern tells his girlfriend, Linda Eldredge, a story about his Uncle Abe.

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Recorded in Waco, TX.

“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.

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