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Lea Jean Kellison
Retired Nurse Lea Jean Kellison, in part of a longer family wedding story, talks about her son Lee who proved himself to be self-reliant and creative as a middle child.
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.
Paul Francis Smith
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 himself.
Barbara M Stilwell
Barbara could not see the baton well enough to catch a high throw. She was a reluctant third grader amidst Junior High School girls in a baton twirling group. Her solution to the problem was very smart.
Denis Ryan Kelly Jr
Professional photographer Denis Kelly talks about going to South America as a young man, two stunning photographs of holy sites in Peru, the resulting cross cultural perspective they offered and the help he received in Indianapolis in printing the photos for a New...
Kathleen Ann Diehl
Kathleen Diehl, in her life story about her career as a public librarian, describes the expanding role of libraries and literacy.
Janice Kay Virgin
Beth Ann Millett
Beth Ann Millett tells about planning to be a single mother by choice at 35, figuring out how to tell her friends and family and the wonders of parenthood.
Joyce Anne Werry
Joyce Anne Werry tells of attending a one-room-school-house in her home town of Hartford City, Indiana.