Evan Richards of Atlanta turns 8-months-old this Saturday. While he’s not speaking yet, his parents, Mark and Sarah Richards, are talking a lot these days about their own childhoods. At StoryCorps Atlanta, Sarah started out by asking her husband to talk about his own upbringing.

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Recent college graduate Rebecca Greenberg came to StoryCorps a few weeks ago to ask her mother, social worker Laura Greenberg, about life growing up in New York, where she lived near her best friend Margie.

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Miguel Figueroa just turned 34 years and is about to be married to his fiancé Kate Pedrick. They both love laughing and at StoryCorps-Atlanta, they laughed together when Miguel finally spilled the beans on a childhood prank against his sister.

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Virginia Almand is in her early 60s, but her childhood memories of her father, Bill Neale, remain crystal-clear in her mind. At StoryCorps Atlanta, daughter Allison Ezell asked about the grandfather she never knew.

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The Honorable Simone Bell serves District 58 in Georgia’s General Assembly. She’s also the first African-American out lesbian in the nation to serve in a state House.

Recently, she sat down with seventeen-year-old Drew Jamison, a self-described lesbian activist. Their conversation took place at Youthpride, an organization serving metro Atlanta LGBTQ youth. You can occasionally hear passing traffic.

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A story from the Vietnam War that doesn’t come from a former soldier. Theresa Nguyen was a child in Saigon when the communists took over in the 1970s. That experience of war has shaped Theresa’s life ever since including her parenting of children Mathew and Stephanie. Stephanie who’s now 24 had some questions for her mom at StoryCorps.

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The story of a marriage that’s made it, despite some obvious differences. Emil Totonchi is from Iraq and his wife of 36 years, Louise, grew up in Ireland. The two met in England in the 1970s. At StoryCorps Atlanta, they told their daughter, Sara, about their parents’ early misgivings.

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Adult sisters Kiplyn Primus, and Karen Adams recently came to StoryCorps to record stories of their Southern childhood. Karen is a year younger than Kiplyn and started off the conversation.

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Frank Ford III had just graduated from UGA when his entire family was in a terrible car accident. Frank fell into a coma and was given a 50/50 chance of survival. He lived, but now at age 43 he suffers from brain damage and memory loss. He can sometimes be fidgety and hard to understand. His mother and caretaker, Claudia Ford, talked to him about his life now.

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Next week marks the 41st anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, which is generally considered the catalyst of the gay rights movement. 41 years later, it can still be scary to come out as gay or transgender. At StoryCorps Atlanta, Jamie Strand tells her friend Natalie Schulhofer about the secret she kept for the many decades of her life.

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This coming Sunday is Father’s Day. A father and his adult son, Forrest Robinson and Matthew Robinson, recently came into StoryCorps. Forrest started out by talking about his memories of his son as a young child.

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At 16, Andrew Cleveland is a rising junior in high school as well as a rising talent in classical and pop music, especially with the cello. At StoryCorps Atlanta, his parents, Mary Lynn Owen and Rob Cleveland, asked him some questions about being a musician.

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If you’re a pop-culture fan you’ve probably heard of Rodney Ho, entertainment writer for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. But he’s also newly married to Helen Kim Ho, Executive Director of the Asian American Legal Advocacy Center. They came to StoryCorps as part of May’s Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage month. Both are Asian-American. But as Helen tells Rodney, that doesn’t say much about their backgrounds.

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These days Laura Murvartian is director of a national wine franchise. But when she first came to the U.S. from Mexico City with her family as a child, her jobs weren’t nearly so glamorous. At StoryCorps Atlanta, Laura’s husband Michael Rhim asked her about those earlier days.

This story was recorded in Partnership with the GALEO: Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials.

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Growing up, 33-year-old Satyam Barakoti had a checklist for what she wanted in a spouse. She always assumed that spouse would be a man, but then she was serving on the board of a nonprofit, and helped interview 43-year-old Tonja Holder for a job. Now they’re partners. At StoryCorps, Satyam told Tonja what was on that original checklist.

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When David Wall was ready for a new challenge ten years ago, the suburban fire chief signed up as a volunteer for “CASA,” the new Court Appointed Special Advocates program in Clayton County.

CASA trains volunteers to advocate in court on behalf of children in state custody. These days his supervisor is Kimberly Walker. She asked David about how he got started as a CASA volunteer and about some meaningful moments he has had.

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In many ways, Luke Putney is a typical 16-year-old. He runs cross-country, is on honor roll, and plays the bass. But he’s also almost completely blind. Radical treatments, including brain surgery, have not given Luke back his sight. His mother, Nancy Hoddinott, had some questions for him.

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Grady Hospital doctor Charles Moore runs a free clinic out of City of Refuge, a nonprofit Christian organization on Atlanta’s west side. Last year, he started advising Emory doctoral candidate Sherí Davis-Faulkner on research she was doing there. Sherí had some questions for Dr. Moore about his clinic, which is called “Heal” and about his own journey.

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Poland native Manya Dembrosky was just a baby when Nazis came and expelled the Jews from her town during the Holocaust. When she finally made it to the shores of New York more than a decade later, she was determined to forget. But these days, the Dunwoody resident is doing her best to give answers to her daughter, Stacey Kalberman.

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Sandra and Jeffrey Ashe have been a couple for 24 years and married for 18. But even when they made their vows, they knew their relationship would have to last sickness and health. After all, Jeff’s had type-2 diabetes almost his whole life.

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Gaby Pacheco’s family moved to the U.S. from Ecuador when she was seven, without legal papers. She pushed herself to take college-level classes in high school. But an academic conflict before her senior year meant choosing between two loves.

Gaby visited the Atlanta Storycorps booth during a 1,500-mile walk from Miami to Washington DC to raise awareness about the issues facing undocumented young people. For more info on that project, visit here.

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Retiree Armand Rodolphe Fredette lived most of his life considering himself to be white. But when he started delving deeper into his parents’ history, he realized some things that now have him checking multiple boxes in terms of his race. He told his story to his daughter Mary DeBlasio.

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Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is 99 years old, and 45 years ago this week she tried to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, along with hundreds of other people protesting for equal rights for African-Americans. In conversation with Genise Kemp Brown, Amelia told the story of the march, which started off at a church.

To read even more about Ms. Boynton Robinson and her StoryCorps Atlanta experience, and to view a powerful photo of her on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, click here.

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Until recently, there had never been a commercial flight crew made up solely of African-American women. That changed in February 2009, when Rachelle Jones and Stephanie Grant co-piloted an Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight from Atlanta to Nashville—with African-American flight attendants also on board. A year later, Rachelle and Stephanie sat down to reflect on that first.

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Lillie Love and Anthony Knight are facilitators at the StoryCorps booth here at WABE. When they began working together last October they got better acquainted by having a conversation in the StoryCorps Booth. In this segment, Anthony asks Lillie about the directions her life has taken in her 52 years.

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Local doctor Laurent Adler has been grieving his mother — Holocaust survivor Marie Rose Adler — since her death in January. Through his medical knowledge he was able to help relieve her suffering before she died; but it was too late to restore their fractured relationship. He told his wife Deblina Datta the story. This story was recorded in partnership with the Atlanta International School.

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47-year-old vegetarian Kate Freeman recently came back to Atlanta from a Peace Corps tour in Botswana. She was working in HIV/AIDS prevention and education. Her adult niece, Kim Banker, had some questions about what life was like in the small African village where Kate lived.

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Mary Wheeler Martin grew up in Forsyth County in the ’30s and ’40s, and called the county jail home for a few of those years. Her daughter, Vickie Martin, wanted to get the story straight and sat her mom down to ask some questions.

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A conversation between a foster father and foster son. 18-year-old Adrianne Hawkins was placed in Horace Atwater’s care four years ago… making him one of eight kids that Horace has fostered. Still, Horace wasn’t so sure about Adrianne in the beginning, as he tells his foster son now.

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We bring you the tale of an 86 year old nun here in Atlanta, sister Eileen Murray. Sister Murray was interviewed by her former student Jennifer Cochran, who’s now in her 30s. And Jennifer had some questions about Sister Eileen’s early days as a nun.

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We bring you a love story from one of our own staff members here at WABE. Public Broadcasting Atlanta fundraiser Fred Skey and his fiancée, Olivia Erbele had been single for most of their adult lives. They came to the StoryCorps booth on the morning of their wedding day to talk about one of their first dates, and how they fell in love.

All of us here at WABE send Fred and Olivia best wishes for many many years of continued joy together.

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When Annie Fears passed away this fall, she left behind four younger generations… including daughter Callye Chatman, and granddaughter Faye Capers. In the midst of their grief, they sat down to talk so Callye could share memories of her mother with her daughter…

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In her late teens and early 20s, Della Allstrom got in lots of trouble… parts of it stemming from bipolar disorder and an addiction to drugs. But after more than 5 years estranged from her family Della got clean and served her time. Now in an emotional conversation, she tells her mom, Nancy, about an unexpected Christmas gift.

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68-year-old Cecilia Cohen of Tucker can be seen regularly at St. Bede’s Epsicopal Church. Being able to go to anywhere is something Cecilia appreciates, since she spent more than decade barely able to leave her house. Here she tells her pastor, the reverend Laura Bryant, about how she ended up getting out of the house… and into church.

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Today a conversation between 29-year old Michael Haverty and his grandmother Lu Algood. Lu helped raise Michael, and Michael was curious about how that arrangement started.

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Dale Youngkin and Samir Das got engaged this year. It was a move neither ever imagined growing up, since Dale and Samir are both men. But now the two engineers are imagining their future together, and remembering how they both ended up in Atlanta in the first place.

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A conversation between best friends and business partners. 20-somethings Alex West and Chris Appleton have been friends since middle school, and are two of the founders of the nonprofits arts organization Wonder Root. Chris begins by asking Alex about their own relationship.

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Atlanta’s own permanent StoryCorps booth opened earlier this fall & right here at WABE. Two of the first people who came through the door were 63-year-old Joyce Haines and her adopted now-grown-up daughter Errin Haines. It was an early birthday present for Joyce, but Errin had some questions about her own origins.

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Louise Strozier talks to Kerrie Cotten Williams about how she met her husband in the twelfth grade and how her aunt’s values contributed to her early marriage.

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Gerald and Muriel Durley talk about life as college students and their move to the south in the 1960’s. It was in college that Gerald went to play basketball at Tennessee State in Nashville and where he had his first experience with racism. Today he’s a doctor of psychology and the pastor of Providence Missionary Baptist Church - where this story was recorded.

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Mary-Anne Adams speaks with Kerrie Cotten Williams. They’re talking about James Meredith’s enrollment as the first African American at the University of Mississippi, and the effect it had on Mary-Anne’s community and her life. Eventually she did attend “Old Miss”, and graduated in 1975 with a double major in social work and sociology. This story was recently recorded at the Auburn Avenue Research Library and edited by Mike Johns.

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Anthony McNair speaks to Jason Reynolds about his decade-long struggle with homelessness. McNair is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm.

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Kerrie Cotten Williams of the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History speaks with Murray Brown. For years Mrs. Brown worked as a nurse at Grady hospital. As a young nursing student she was introduced to someone and fell in love. Here she talks about that person, her husband Henry “Sam” Brown.

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Carl McNair talks to his friend Vernon Skipper about his brother, Ron. Both Ron and Carl grew up and attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College where on February 1st 1960, four African American students started the first sit in at Woolworth’s. Later, Ron McNair became an astronaut - he was killed when the space shuttle challenger exploded in January 1986.

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Lydia Walker speaks with her friend, 89-year old Ruth Greene, regarded by many as the poet laurite of Ebenezer Baptist church. Greene shares her love of reading, writing and even spelling.

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Anna Swanston speaks with **Akilah Nosakhere about her “welcome home” reception in the village Busia in Ghana.

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Anita Johnson shares with her friend Marie Cowser about her mother’s beauty shop and the strong sense of community that surrounded it.

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Nguyen Allen speaks with her friend Bridgette Vassar about high school history class, and its conflicts with her own upbringing in the Black Panther Party throughout the 1970s. She starts by recalling a class with one of her teachers.

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Dr. Jimmy LeVon Brown speaks with Kerrie Williams about his involvement with the Neighborhood Planning Unit in his East Atlanta residence and seeing his community change under gentrification.

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Robert Johnson speaks with Alma Billingslea about his work with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and meeting his wife for the first time at a civil rights march in Covington, Georgia.

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Three sisters share their memories about a black-tie affair one of them wanted to attend. Here, one of them, Gloria Ann-Jackson recalls asking her sister, Hazel, for a very big favor.

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Lewis Sinclair, who grew up in Past Christian, Mississippi talks with his wife Mary about growing up as a light-skinned African American.

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45-year old Julie Borders talks to her friend Tamara Verrett about growing up in Cascade Heights in Atlanta. Here she recalls some of the childhood games she would play with her siblings. Sometimes those games led to trouble; sometimes with her mother.

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John Harrison speaks with his wife Rosa about growing up poor in the South and a sad memory she has about a pet rabbit she had as a child, named, “Susie”.

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Lynn Weaver speaks with his daughter Kimberly about life growing up in Knoxville Tennessee, and about the life long influence of his father.

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Nazeeh Rasheed speaks to Jason Reynolds about his involvement with the Nation of Islam and the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta during the 1960s.

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Norris Robinson speaks with his daughter Mia about his boyhood and growing up in rural Alabama.

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Larry Platt speaks with Kevin Cook and Nadja Middleton about his experience of nearly being lynched in Adamsville, Georgia. This story contains some language which may be sensitive to some listeners.

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Bernard White looks back on the moments he had with his children as they were growing up. White, who’s struggling with a drug addiction, has been estranged from them for years. Here he’s speaking with Nadja Middleton.

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Fred Ball talks with John Randolph about the life of his grandfather who, as a light skinned African American, was witness to moments intended only for whites. Randolph recalls how his Grandfather — who worked as a chauffeur - was in attendance at a political rally for former Governor Eugene Tallmadge who was a major force in Georgia politics during the Jim Crow South.

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72-year old Lydia Walker speaks with her 96-year old mother, Myrtis Middlebrooks. In her youth, Myrtis was a well known singer in her hometown of Griffin, Georgia and was a member of the Spelman Glee Club.

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Kevin Cook shares his lifetime struggle with alcohol and drug addiction and how one moment with his infant daughter showed him that his life needed a change. Kevin currently does social advocacy work with Agape House Ministries.

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Johnny Mason speaks with his mother, Ethel, about growing up in the segregated south. They begin by talking about her first date with Johnny’s father.

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Marlene Riba spoke with her daughter Abby Rittberg - about Abby’s scare with a blood clot. The two also talk about the unique gift that Abby’s daughter Ariel, brought to the whole family.

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Jason Myerson interviews his grandfather Eugen Shoenfield — a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Here, Dr. Shoenfield tells his grandson the story of how he survived in the camp for 14-months. Sadly, Dr. Shoenfield’s mother, sister and brother did not survive the camp, but Eugen and his father did.

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In their time at the StoryCorps booth siblings Joyce and Ken Averils talked about the loss of their father, the love they have for their mother and about the moments in life that helped shape their religion.

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Lori Armstrong interviewed Janet Lutz, her friend of 10 years. Janet has just retired from a 30-year career as a hospital chaplain, most recently at Emory Medical Center. Here, she talks about her belief that sharing stories can be holy.

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Annette Marcus interviews her mother Charlene Sacks about her first date as a sixteen year old girl, in 1942. Charlene, who’s Jewish, says one of the biggest hurdles to the event was convincing her father to allow her to go on the date during Passover and with a non-Jewish boy.

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Shannon and Stephen Dobranski are about to celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary. Here, they talk about what married life feels like, and definitions of family.

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Beverly Wilder interviews her mother, Bobby Spann, about growing up in the Carolinas during the time that schools in her neighborhood were being integrated.

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Susan Liebeskind interviewed her longtime friend, Laurie Foley. The two met as computer programming graduate students at Georgia Tech. Laurie talks here about how her programming helped her to find her college sweetheart, and about her very first job after college.

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Amy Gwinn and George Carleton spoke with each other at the Atlanta StoryCorps booth. Amy is from Florida and George is from Maryland, but their friendship started when they — and their dogs - met in Piedmont Park. Today, they’re married.

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Larry and Alice Mason, who recently celebrated their 2nd wedding anniversary, talk about their interracial marriage. Larry is originally from Chicago and begins by describing the reaction to their relationship when living in Illinois and how reactions changed when they moved to Georgia.

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Clarence Harrison spent eighteen years in a Georgia prison for a crime that he didn’t commit. Here he is interviewed by his wife Yvonne. The two first met over the phone and eventually in person. Then, 17 days after being exonerated Clarence and Yvonne were married.

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Alan and Teresa Fish are both successful professionals, Teresa having recently started her own business and Alan having forged a flourishing career in advertising. In this conversation however, Alan tells his wife he does have one regret — about what he considers to be his lost dream.

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Patrick Flaherty interviewed Alicia Cheung, the sister of his former partner, Keith — who committed suicide last year. Here, Patrick and Alicia talk about how tragedy has strengthened their connection to each other following Keith’s death.

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