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StoryCorps: Dennis and Buelah Apple (00:02:38)
From: StoryCorps

Dennis Apple and his wife, Buelah, remember their son Denny, who died when he was a teenager.

StoryCorps: Mort Segal and Joan Feldman (00:01:58)
From: StoryCorps

Mort Segal and his sister, Joan Feldman, remember their father, Jack Segal, a booking agent for novelty acts in the Catskills.

StoryCorps: Howell Graham and Nan Graham (00:01:51)
From: StoryCorps

Howell Graham, one of the longest-surviving double-lung transplant patients, tells his mother, Nan, about the days after his surgery.

StoryCorps: Julian Walker and Julia Walker Jewell (00:03:06)
From: StoryCorps

75-year-old Julian Walker tells his daughter, Julia Walker Jewell, about an accident his father had as a young boy.

StoryCorps: Betsy Brooks and John Grecsek (00:02:17)
From: StoryCorps

Betsy Brooks tells her boyfriend, John Grecsek, about her father.

StoryCorps: Bob and Aimee Gerold (00:01:50)
From: StoryCorps

Aimee Gerold speaks with her father, Bob, about her adoption from China.

StoryCorps NTI: John Byrne and Samantha Liebman (00:01:50)
From: StoryCorps

Teacher John Byrne talks with his former student, Samantha Liebman, about coming out to his students.

StoryCorps Griot: Walter Dean and Christopher Myers (00:01:46)
From: StoryCorps

Author Walter Dean Myers talks about his father in an interview with his son Christopher Myers.

StoryCorps: Marat and Leon Kogut (00:04:26)
From: StoryCorps

Leon Kogut talks with his son, Marat Kogut, an NBA referee.

StoryCorps: Max Voelz (00:02:34)
From: StoryCorps

Retired Sgt. 1st Class Max Voelz remembers his wife, Staff Sgt. Kimberly Voelz, who died in Iraq while disarming an IED.

Related Pieces

Broadcast History

NPR's Morning Edition, 10.31.08

Intro and Outro

Fridays, we hear from StoryCorps. This project is recording the stories of everyday Americans.

Today, we'll hear from Lillian Howell.

She lived through the 1929 stock market collapse ...

... which, as it's been noted, happened 79 years ago this week.

Howell was 10 at the time.

And here she recalls how her family's life changed... in the weeks that followed.

89-year-old Lillian Howell at StoryCorps in Roanoke, Virginia.

Her interview will be archived at the Library of Congress.

More stories from the project are in the StoryCorps book, "Listening Is An Act of Love" ... now in paperback...

... and at NPR-dot-ORG.