Category: Work

“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.

“A little girl had come to the hospital...”

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Dr. John Bancroft, a pediatrician, tells his daughter Carolyn about a memorable patient.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“The dance hosts are there for all of the ladies who are traveling independently...”

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Richard Craig, a veteran dance host on cruise ships, talks about his work.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“Some fellers would find out we were chasing them, they'd just go put themselves in jail.”

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Rick Kincaid tells his friend Danny Ray Terry about his career as a bounty hunter.

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Recorded in Austin, TX.

“What was it like being a chaplain at war in Vietnam?”

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Carol Harllee interviews her father, Robert.

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Recorded in Charlottesville, VA.

“We went on a honeymoon, and then I was gone to Afghanistan.”

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First Lieutenant Thomas Nelson and his wife, Lauren, talk about their first year of marriage.

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Recorded in Fort Bragg, NC.

“Just because you sound pretty don't mean you're the best in the business.”

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Former tobacco auctioneers Gregg Goins and Steve Nelms talk about their work.

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Recorded in Durham, NC.

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