“Recording our nation’s histories —
one person at a time”

Audio Samples

I have some excerpts from some of the interviews I have done. Please take a few minutes and listen to them. They play best with QuickTime player.

Gertrude Stephenson Fish

Gertrude Stephenson Fish retells her experience of growing up in Orth, Minnesota; entertaining and dancing with the loggers visiting the town from their logging camps — and staying at her family’s boarding house.

 

Glen Edward Eiman

Glen remembers his Navy service aboard a seaplane tender off the Korean coast during that war - and an assignment to go ashore to obtain provisions for his ship.

 

Violet Joan Watson Hyde

Violet remembers growing up in the New Cross neighborhood of London during the German bombing of World War II.

 

Marilyn Fairbourn Jensen

Marilyn tells the story of earning college tuition money by raising show calves on her father's ranch in southern Utah.

 

Glenn Monroe Manion

Glenn recalls visiting his grandfather's farm and home in Fayette, Missouri — and grandpa's habit of wearing long underwear the year round and grandma wearing 7 or 8 petticoats.

 

Ryan and Jeff Homer

These recordings made almost 35 years ago on simple recording equipment highlight the simple joys of childhood and the sweet voices that are quickly lost.