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Dwayne Moore & Cornelia Davis-Moore
The Life Stories Project involves recording and sharing the true stories of everyday people.
Crystal V. Rhodes
A successful writer and producer of plays and television programs, Crystal Rhodes offers advice to those who have “The call of the dream!”
Jeanette Marie Sawi
While visiting Greece with her brother, Jeanette Sawi took a side trip that changed her life. In this excerpt of the story of how the The Island of Santorini Restaurant in Fountain Square area in Indianapolis came to she tells about meeting the man she would marry.
Michael O’Brien
Michael Obrien talks about training to go to India with the Peace Corps in 1973, how growing up in a large family on a Wisconsin dairy farm helped prepare him for that work and how stories and language affect our world view.
Wayne Roland Wellington
As a child Wayne Wellington was impressed by the manner and dress of his shop teacher. Those polished shoes lead him to the path to higher education, teaching, and a successful career as an administrator.
Mary Lou Lofton
Mary Lou Lofton’s son Tim was full of energy and and joyful sound effects but he also feared two things that were designed to delight children. Both were to be found at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis.
Shirley Anne Charles
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 clothes.
Ann O’Bryan
Ann tells of growing up in the small town of Somerset Kentucky; family camping, bike trips with her father, and her love of nature.
Joe Mack Huston
During his childhood in the fifties when the topics of religion and sex were far more sensitive, Mack describes his experience with different churches.