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“My father took me to the grocery store when I was just big enough to walk...”

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Robbie Cronig (R) who grew up working in his family's market, remembers selling it to his friend Steve Bernier (L).

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Recorded in Martha's Vineyard, MA.

“The first flight I had was an early morning flight...”

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Dorothy Hayes tells her son, Keys, about being an airline stewardess in the 1940s.

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Recorded in Jackson, MS.

“He said, 'Well, Judge, I'm disappointed in you...'”

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Judge Joe Pigott tells his wife, Lorraine, about Willie Earl "Pip" Dow, a man he sentenced many times.

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Recorded in Jackson, MS.

“I was a cop with a good reputation out in the street.”

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Retired police officer Walter Fahey tells his son Bill about his long career.

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Recorded in Boston, MA.

“There were some interesting times with that old leg...”

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Lendall Hill tells his daughter, Lori FitzGerald, about his father's artificial leg.

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Recorded in Charleston, WV.

“She was determined to keep us together as a family.”

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Joyce Butler remembers her mother, who worked in a shipyard during World War II, in an interview with her daughter, Stephanie.

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Recorded in Portland, ME.

“Daddy would come home tired to the bone...”

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Samuel Black tells his wife, Edda Fields-Black, about his father, who operated a boiler room.

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Recorded in Pittsburgh, PA.

“The mill was always in my life...”

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Ken Kobus tells his friend Ron Barraf about his father, John Kobus, who worked at a steel mill for nearly 40 years.

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Recorded in Pittsburgh, PA.

“It was raining just as hard in the station as it was outside.”

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New Orleans Pump Station workers Rufus Burkhalter and Bobby Brown remember the night Hurricane Katrina hit.

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Recorded in New Orleans, LA. Click here for more Hurricane Katrina stories.

“Well, I had a buddy and he used to dance up and down the docks...”

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91-year-old Henry Belcher tells his friend Major A. Mason III about tap dancing in the 1930s.

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Recorded in Pittsburgh, PA.

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