Category: Growing Up

“He was a short-order cook...”

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Ed Miller (L) tells his son EJ (R) about his father, Ed Miller, Sr.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“School was out for two weeks and all the telephone lines were down.”

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Dr. Jim Fleming tells his daughter, Janetta, about being trapped indoors by the Great Ice Storm of 1951.

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Recorded in Nashville, TN.

“You followed my footsteps and I thought it was great.”

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Ledo Lucietto and his daughter, Anne, talk about how their family's mechanical inclination has been passed down through the generations.

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Recorded in Baltimore, MD.

“It's a premature aging disorder...”

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Barbara Cooper (L) tells her mother, Jody Houston (R), about living with a form of the rare genetic condition, Progeria.

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Recorded in Abilene, TX.

“Her full name was Sara Louisa Matilda Elizabeth Nowles.”

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Mike Kilgore remembers his grandmother and an incident involving a wild flower called Rabbit Tobacco.

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Recorded in Indianapolis, IN.

“We sold what household things we had...”

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Lillian Howell, 89, tells her son Thomas about moving from Ohio to Virginia during the Great Depression.

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Recorded in Roanoke, VA.

“If I'm going to get up over this big bum so I can shoot, I'm going to have to jump.”

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Former NBA player Kenny Sailors, 87, tells his friend Anne Brande about pioneering the jump shot.

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Recorded in Laramie, WY.

“You told us that we were 'castle people', and you were a 'street person.'”

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Victoria Fraser talks to her grandson, Christopher, whom she raised, about the day he came to live with his grandparents.

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Recorded in Burlington, VT.

“We really didn't know what we were doing.”

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Brooklyn-born Joe Spano tells his son Joe Jr. about opening a small Italian restaurant in Texas.

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Recorded in Abilene, TX.

“When I was 10, I told my parents I was going to marry a man.”

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Robert Madden (R) tells his friend Tom Kurthy (L) about coming out to his parents.

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Recorded in Santa Monica, CA.

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