StoryCorps interview with Jacob Morton

In this interview we listen to Jacob Morton and his story of what it is like growing up in Newport, North Carolina.

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James Reeves and Amy Spiker

Amy Spiker (43) interviews her father, James Reeves (87) about his time serving as a Marine during WWII. He also talks about his 70-year career as an auto garage owner and his 64-year marriage.

Jenny Modesitt´s experience with Epilepsy

Jenny Modesitt (37) is a family friend of mine who had to have brain surgery to get rid of her epilepsy. In this interview, we talk about the struggles she had to go through, the people that helped her, and...

Dad Opens Up About His Life and the Creative Process

Mark Rodriguez (48) talks to his daughter, Aurora Rodriguez (17), about his love for music and what his life was like when he was growing up. He also discusses his views on the creative process.

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Sura Alhilali and Mustafa Aljanabi

Wife and husband, Sura Alhilali (25) and Mustafa Aljanabi (31) discuss their journeys to the United States, how they met, and the cultural differences between the United States and the Middle East.

JOURNALISM ALLOWS ME & PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF TO SPEAK BOLDLY

Reverend Debra J. Hopkins, LGBTQI rights activist and interfaith organizer in North Carolina, shares her views on the importance of press freedom in the U.S. with Eline Marx, from PEN America.

Billy Turner, Jr., at the Museum of Durham History

Mr. Turner shares his life story, growing up in North Carolina's Piedmont region and working in Durham's many tobacco and textile factories.

Interviewing my Grandma Maryanne

Maryanne Matusko, age 78, grew up in Massachusetts where she worked on farms during her childhood. She married Raymond Matusko who was in the Air Force and traveled to many different areas with her three children before retiring in Currituck.

Thanksgiving and rural farm life in Lee County, North Carolina.

I talked with my grandfather, GW Godfrey and my great aunt Doris Swain about their childhood on a rural farm in Lee county.

UNCA LANG interview Rachel and Katie

We shared with each other a story about an experience that changed the way we think about writing, reading, communication, or education. I recorded it on my computer using Quicktime Player and Katie was over the phone on speaker. We...

Matthew Palmer interviews father John Palmer about childhood and past experiences.

In this interview, conducted in December 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Matthew Palmer (17) interviews his father John Palmer (54) about his childhood, teenage, and college years. John tells about Christmas with his mother. He also shares what his first...

Boarding Houses in North Carolina in the 1920s and 1930s – Interview with Evelyn Loven McCulley Ochs

Lucretia McCulley (Richmond, VA) interviewed her mother, Evelyn Loven McCulley Ochs (age 83) on October 2, 2015, about her parents running a boarding house and tourist home in the 1920s and 1930s in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a small mountain...

‘76 Book Selling Door-to-Door

My Dad, Glenn, in the summer of 1976 sold books door-to-door in North Carolina. He has lots of stories about events that happened while doing so, in addition to character traits of all the different types of people he met.

Alejandra Picón’s experience in the United States.

October 6th, 2018. I interview Alejandra Picón about her experience in the United States. Alejandra lives in Spain and spent last year with me and my family in North Carolina.

Interviewing my grandma and grandpa

Asked them simple questions like where they were from and what they were most grateful for.

Agriculture through the years

An interview with my parents, Scot and Gina Brown, about Thanksgiving and their involvement with agriculture.

Changes in Agriculture

Changes in the agricultural industry of N.C.

Apush extra credit

Conversation about my grandfathers childhood