Stories in the 'Growing Up' category

"Why are you not still married?"
10-year-old Rahsheed McKenstry interviews his mother, Rhonetta.
Recorded in Memphis, TN

"If somebody was coming down the road, they were either coming to see us or they were lost."
Lucky Osborne tells his wife, Debi, about growing up with his grandparents in rural Mississippi.
Recorded in Jackson, MS

"Were you really serious before you got pregnant?"
Lauren Vincelli interviews her parents, Mary and Peter, about being high school sweethearts.
Recorded in New York, NY

"I never particularly liked you.”
Melissa Wilbur (R) and her sister Janaki Symon remember growing up together.
Recorded in Santa Monica, CA

"I said, ‘I couldn’t go to school and not have anything…’"
Cynthia Rahn remembers trying to complete a kindergarten class project.
Recorded in Durham, NC

"Recess came and the boys had a football…"
Mweupe Mfalme Nguni remembers his first day at an integrated elementary school in 1965.
Recorded in Oakland, CA

"I felt alone and tried to hide it…"
Taro Alexander talks about growing up with a stutter.
Recorded in New York, NY, in partnership with Our Time Theater Company.

“One of the soldiers was crying…”
Jean Thackeray tells her daughter-in-law, Susan, about a German POW who worked on her father’s farm during World War II.
Recorded in Logan, UT

“I got bussed to a high school in my sophomore year…”
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley tells his son Jonathan about a year that shaped his life.
Recorded in Providence, RI

“None of us looked like our mom; but everybody knew we belonged to her husband.”
Yvonne Logan Jones (L) and her sister Ola Mae Logan Allen remember their parents, who migrated north in the 1940s.
Recorded in Detroit, MI



