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  • “We saw the searchlight from the patrol boat...”

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

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    Recorded in Georgetown, DE
  • “They would allow potential parents to check you out like a library book.”

    Ray Martinez remembers growing up in an orphanage during the 1950s.

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    Recorded in Fort Collins, CO
  • “By the time I was in the second grade, everyone was calling me Raymond.”

    Ramon "Chunky" Sanchez remembers how teachers changed the names of Mexican-American students during the 1950s.

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    Recorded in San Diego, CA
  • “As he's walking away, I'm like, 'Hey, you forgot something...'”

    Julio Diaz remembers being robbed on a subway platform in the Bronx.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “A friend of ours wanted us to be together in a scene...”

    Miriam Cruz-Colon and her husband Oscar Colon remember meeting as acting students in 1959.

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    Recorded in New York, NY.
  • “When I met Michael I was 14 years old.”

    Monique Ferrer remembers her ex-husband, Michael Trinidad, who was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

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    Recorded in Rockville Centre, NY
  • “I would see tons of doctors...”

    Gloria Mengual tells her partner, Charles Gregory, about growing up with epilepsy.

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    Recorded in Hartford, CT
  • “He said, 'When the border patrol changes shifts, you're going to run.'”

    Blanca Alvarez tells her daughter, Connie, about crossing the border from Mexico to the United States.

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    Recorded in Los Angeles, CA
  • “So I ran back to the bus, and I said, 'Sweetie, your restaurant is right here.'”

    New York City bus operator Ronald Ruiz remembers one of his passengers on the City Island line in the Bronx.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “He went somewhere; you could see it. And there was no pain. There's a quiet dignity in there.”

    Jesus Melendez telling Frank Perez about poet Pedro Pietri's final moments in an air ambulance.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
  • “You know, when everybody's poor, nobody feels poor.”

    Manny Diaz tells his friend Blanca Vazquez about growing up in New York City, during the Depression.

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    Recorded in New York, NY
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