StoryCorps 2006

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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