Caught in a thoughtless act of cruelty, a young man learns a lesson in compassion from his father, a larger-than-life tribal leader of the Caddo Nation. Years later, he passes that lesson down to his own son.
Sometimes it takes a great love to make you feel like you belong. Lyle Link wasn’t cut out for farming, but in his marriage to a fellow adventurer he found his purpose.
Camaran Henson grew up thinking his grandfather possessed super powers. Now that his grandfather is gone, Camaran remembers large and small ways the man lived up to his legendary status.
Glenda fell for Lauree at a time when both women felt societal pressure to pursue traditional paths. Though fate interfered, Glenda never forgot what it felt like to be loved by her.
A San Antonio bishop believes he is his family’s dispenser of spiritual wisdom, until he is reminded by his aging abuelita that there are some things only our elders can truly grasp.
After the difficult experience of helping integrate a Tennessee high school in 1964, Dr. William Lynn Weaver remembers succeeding in spite of some teachers, and because of others.
A teenager gets sent to Louisiana for a summer with her great-grandmother, Silvia. What feels like punishment soon changes the girl’s perspective on what it means to be free.
Ronald Clark’s father was custodian of a New York Public Library branch during a time when caretakers and their families lived on-premises. Ronald recalls a childhood surrounded by books.
After being drafted in 1969, Tom Geerdes served as an Army medic in the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Like many veterans, he returned home a changed man.
Jamal Faison and his uncle Born Blackwell talk about the night Jamal was released from jail, and the support he found after incarceration.
