Rodney Layman Reid

African American, Childhood, Civil Rights, Indiana, Oral History

1968 was a definitive time for Rodney Reid. He started high school at the beginning of the mandate for desegregation. Rodney helped to found the Human Relations Council which brought a better balance to student government.

Sharon Kirk Clifton

Oral History, Parenting, Women

One year when the budget was too tight to buy presents storyteller Sharon Kirk Clifton brought out her sewing machine to create an unforgettable Christmas for her two young daughters.

Cynthia H Goodyear

Childhood, Family, Oral History

Cynthia Goodyear talks about how WWII impacted her childhood and how the nation’s sense of war since has changed.

Gwen Althauser Betor

Family, Indiana, Oral History

In this excerpt of Gwen Althauser Betor’s life story we hear how she is a survivor with a love of life, family and the poetry of the Hoosier Poet, James Whitcomb Riley.

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