• “I never have found another neighborhood like that one.”

    Alfred Zepeda (L) talks to his friend Albert Elias (R) about their childhood in Chavez Ravine, a Mexican-American neighborhood in Los Angeles that was replaced by Dodger Stadium.

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    Recorded in Montebello, CA

  • “We were among the first twenty steel burners to go in there.”

    Jack Murray (R) went down to Ground Zero the day of the September 11 attacks. He tells his friend, Jud Esty-Kendall (L), about cutting steel so rescue workers could search for those buried in the rubble.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “She met Robert when she was 90...”

    Barbara Dundon tells her husband, Jack, how her mother, Dorothy Lang, found love in an assisted living home.

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    Recorded in New York, NY

  • “I just idolized him.”

    Zenobbie Clark (L) and her sister, Diana Carter (R), remember their brother, Samuel "Bubba" Hammond Jr., who was shot in the back and killed during the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968. Read more...

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    Recorded in Plantation, FL

  • “I was afraid that I hadn't given you all you needed.”

    Tami Hayes talks to her daughter, Dymond, about battling breast cancer as a single parent. Dymond was 13 at the time of Tami's diagnosis.

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    Recorded in St. Peters, MO

  • “How did you meet Dad?”

    Audrey Newman (R) talks with her mother, Florence (L) who has Alzheimer's, about her father, Joe Newman.

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    Recorded in Commack, NY

  • “It was a hard, dirty job...”

    Gene Kendzior tells his daughter, Jennifer, about his father, who died working in a coal mine in 1967.

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    Recorded in Morgantown, WV

  • “I just thought I was going to go to a gym and get in the ring and fight.”

    17-year-old amateur boxing champion Seniesa Estrada talks to her father and coach, Joe Estrada, about how she got started in the sport. Read more...

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    Recorded in Los Angeles, CA

  • “I remember being in court every day...”

    Sylvia Mendez (L), 73, talks to her sister Sandra Mendez Duran (R), 59, about Mendez v. Westminster, their family's 1945 lawsuit that won Mexican-American children the right to attend white schools.

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    Recorded in Walnut, CA

  • “Before they would see a doctor, the families in the community would come to see her.”

    Graciela Kavulla tells her husband, Timothy, about her grandmother, who was a midwife.

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    Recorded in Houston, TX