Category: Work

Gustavo Mestas talks to his daughter, Ileana, about escaping from Cuba to the U.S. in 1963.

Recorded in Georgetown, DE. Click here for more from Historias.

Tom Domingue, who had polio as a child, tells his wife Dotty, about coming home from the hospital.

Recorded in Georgetown, DE.

Mark Sullivan remembers working summers on a tobacco farm in the late 1950s.

Recorded in Hartford, CT.

90-year-old James Lacy tells his daughter, Jamie Breed, about his father's general store in Comanche County, Texas.

Recorded in Abilene, TX.

Tim Russert interviews fellow Buffalo-native, James T. Molloy, retired doorkeeper of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Recorded in Washington, DC.

Elmore Nickelberry and Taylor Rogers remember why they went on strike as Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

Herb Kneeland (L) tells his son Martavius Jones about being a disc jockey at WDIA in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

Recorded in Memphis, TN.

Darryl Downes remembers discovering his talent while serving time in Sing Sing Prison.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Tia Smallwood tells her daughter, Christine, about becoming a business woman in the 1970s.

Recorded in New York, NY.

Master quilter Geraldine Nash (R) talks to her former math teacher, Gustina Atlas, who is now her quilting student, about their friendship.

Recorded in Port Gibson, MS.