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“I just remember he's always been there. I've always had him, for as far back as I can remember.”
November 21, 2012
Interview with Lynn Garrison
Lynn Garrison shows Anne Hall her childhood sock doll George, and how he was made by her aunt Jo almost 60 years ago.
“At that time after the war there was literally starvation and massive poverty. It was a bombed-out country: no food, everyone was going hungry. ”
November 9, 2012
Interview with Diana Wilhelm
“The story is that as a neighbour walked by he's reported to have said: "This woman is NOT my mother."”
October 18, 2012
Interview with Sarah Balint
Sarah Balint shows Meredith Westcott two photos taken ninety years apart, of a little brother and an older sister: her grandfather Graeme Lindsay Stewart and his sister Margaret Lucille Stewart circa 1910, and her own daughter and son Maia and Graeme Balint circa 2000.
“He was actually shot in the chest but he had a New Testament Bible in his front pocket and the bullet went halfway through the Bible and stopped. And we still have the Bible.”
October 18, 2012
Interview with Meredith Westcott
Meredith Westcott shows Sarah Balint a studio portrait of her grandfather in uniform during WWII and reads a letter he sent home from overseas in January 1942.
“Why didn't we talk to Grandpa and ask him more stories about his life? He was born in 1900 and he died in 1993: all the changes he lived through!”
October 3, 2012
Interview with Patti Enright
Patti Enright shows Jo Stanbridge a group studio portrait, circa 1916, of her grandfather Samuel Elwood Wright (aged about 16 or 17), along with one of his brothers, two friends and Blackie the dog.
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