by podbean | Mar 20, 2025 | Childhood, Education
While growing up in a family of 17 children in South Bend, Walter helped his Father in the trash hauling business. During his freshman year at Notre Dame Walter came home to visit and gained a fresh appreciation for what his family had done for...
by podbean | Mar 20, 2025 | Childhood, Military
Paul Smith grew up in a Navy family. In the 1960’s when he was a teenager they moved from Athens, Georgia to Monterey, California. Paul talks about the challenge of fitting in and learning to be true to...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Childhood, Family, Oral History
One of 13 children growing up in Washington, Indiana in the 1940’s, Shirley Charles tells of shared wardrobes and the time consuming chore of washing...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Careers, Indianapolis
In an excerpt of his oral history Dr. Karl Manders describes his early work in Indianapolis finding non-surgical treatments for patients with chronic...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Indiana, Oral History, Parenting, Rural Life, Values, Women
All that her three little boys wished for Christmas was a pony. But in order to raise the $75 dollars to pay for it their homesteading mother would have to bake THIRTY PUMPKIN PIES for Thanksgiving … with no electricity, no running water and a wood burning stove! This...