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Rodney and Clara Gibbs

October 31, 2012 5:00 am by: Mike Lee

Rodney and Clara GibbsRodney and Clara Gibbs
The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin recently collecting stories from your fellow central Texans. The Airstream has now left town, but we’re still archiving many of those stories here. While the booth was in town, Rodney Gibbs sat down with his then ten-year-old daughter Clara. Among many other things, they talked about their family's tradition of wearing themed Halloween costumes. Along with Clara's younger brother Atticus and mom Nancy Mims, the whole family picks a yearly theme (usually based on a movie or band) and dresses up as a unit. Below you can see some of their greatest hits from Halloweens past....
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Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval

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Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval

Friends Kurt Kaiser and Travis Sandoval were two of the Austinites who sat down together in the Airstream while it was in town. They talked about their families, about Kurt's Mormon upbringing, and about coming out to their parents. The conversation presented here begins with Kurt asking Travis...
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Helen Wahlgren, Julie Sokol, and Cheryl Wahlgren

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Helen Wahlgren, Julie Sokol, and Chery...

Helen Wahlgren celebrated her 94th birthday earlier this month, but before that, she sat down in the StoryCorps mobile booth to share some memories with her daughter, Cheryl Wahlgren, and her granddaughter, Julie Sokol. Helen told stories about her sister Anna, about growing up in New York, about...
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Mike Wynn and Liza Kalamaha-Wynn

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Mike Wynn and Liza Kalamaha-Wynn

Today's StoryCorps interview features Michael Wynn and his wife Liza Kalamaha-Wynn. The Wynns met while they were in the Army Reserves together, at which point Liza was Michael's sergeant. That was many years ago; they've now been married for over two decades and have five children together,...
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Jenny and Daniel Corbin

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Jenny and Daniel Corbin

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin recently collecting stories from your fellow central Texans. The Airstream has now left town, but we’ll continue airing the stories recorded there every Monday and Wednesday morning here on KUT and archiving them here. When Jenny and Daniel Corbin sat...
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Margaret Zynda and Nancy Watson

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Margaret Zynda and Nancy Watson

Margaret Zynda recently sat down in the booth with one of her four children, Nancy Watson. Nancy says that her mother is "the youngest 84-year-old I know." The two talked a lot about Margaret's life, including her memories of being a wife and mother in mid-century America....
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Mary Anne Notzon and Ulan Notzon

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Mary Anne Notzon and Ulan Notzon

The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin recently collecting stories from your fellow central Texans. The Airstream has now left town, but we’ll continue airing the stories recorded there every Monday and Wednesday morning here on KUT and archiving them here. Today we'll hear from Mary Anne...
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Kate and Mike Voth

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Kate and Mike Voth

Kate and Mike Voth were married in 2008, when she was 22 and he was 24. Their marriage has been, in part, defined by Kate's ongoing battle with cancer; she was diagnosed just a few months before their wedding. Despite this challenge, however, they're planning to celebrate their 75th wedding...
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David Garza

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David Garza

Today we'll hear from singer/songwriter David Garza. Since moving to Austin in the waning days of the 1980s, Garza has become an integral part of the local music scene. And, as you'll hear in this StoryCorps piece, music's always been a integral part of his life, from his early days listening to...
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Jo Anne Moore and Mary D. Lankford

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Jo Anne Moore and Mary D. Lankford

Jo Anne Moore and Mary D. Lankford have been friends for many years, and they share a lifelong love of books and the written word. That love is what inspired both to become school librarians earlier in their lives, and has continued to grow now that they're both retired. And they have more in...
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Ricardo Isaias Zavala and Ricardo Javier Zavala

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Ricardo Isaias Zavala and Ricardo Javi...

Today we'll bring you a story that Ricardo Isaias Zavala of Cedar Creek recently shared with his son, Ricardo Javier Zavala. It's the story of the elder Ricardo's grandfather, Vicente Domingo Villa, and "the Christmas Chaps."...
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Stephanie Stillman and Summer Spisak

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Stephanie Stillman and Summer Spisak

Today we'll be hearing from Stephanie Stillman, who sat down in the Airstream recently with her wife, Summer Spisak. Stephanie and Summer talked about their life together in Austin, and Stephanie shared memories about her childhood days, about realizing she was gay, and about her connection with...
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Daniel and Mary Myers

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Daniel and Mary Myers

Today we'll hear from Daniel and Mary Myers, who were married in Austin last year. Their path to marriage was a long one, spanning Chicago to Austin. They met nearly two decades ago and became friends; after Daniel moved away from Chicago a few years later, he and Mary continued to run into each...
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