Category: Work

“How's it feel...telling someone they're going to die?”

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Sarafina Viviano asks her mother, Dana, about her work as a cancer nurse.

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Recorded in partnership with the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

“I've been in and around barber shops all of my life.”

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Lawrence Anthony (L), who has been cutting hair for over 60 years, and fellow barber David Shirley (R), talk about their work. For more photos, click here.

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Recorded in Drexel, NC.

“We were working for what they would let us have and that was not a lot.”

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Johnny Bradley tells his daughter Kathy about growing up in Georgia as the son of a sharecropper.

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Recorded in Savannah, GA.

“We used to put out a hurricane section...”

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Retired newspaperman Ed Pierce talks to his grandson, Scott, and his daughter, Rebecca, about working as managing editor of the Miami News.

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Recorded in Gainesville, FL.

“I'm always working 24 hours a day.”

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90-year-old Bill Schifrin tells his son-in-law, Herman Rotenberg, about making his living as a wedding ring salesman.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“My dad was working 24/7 to make it.”

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James Bost remembers his father, a salesman during the Great Depression, in an interview with his son Doug.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“I was going to get this little boy an adoptive home before Christmas.”

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Sister Mary DeSalles Collins, who worked at New York Foundling for over 50 years, remembers one adoption just after World War II.

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Recorded in Yonkers, NY, in partnership with the Convent of Mary the Queen.

“We go around and we bless the hands of all the people who work in the hospital.”

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Janet Lutz (R) tells her friend, Lori Armstrong (L), about working as a hospital chaplain.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA.

“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.

“She still thought I was in Iraq.”

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Hector Vega and his wife, Leopoldina, remember the day Hector returned home from war.

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Recorded in New York, NY. Click here for more from Historias.

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