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Interview with George J. Macko

Macko talks about his father immigrating from Czeckoslavia and settling in Binghamton, NY. Both his parents died when he was young and he and his siblings lived with a relative. At fourteen he left school to work for the Binghamton Glass Co. where he learned the glassblowing trade. He details the...

Interview with Gerald (Jerry) Kalayjian

Gerald (Jerry) Kalayjian is retired from insurance sales and is a first generation Armenian-American who was born in Binghamton. Both his parents left Turkey during the genocide. Jerry and his wife have a son and three grandchildren and they continue to reside in Binghamton.

Interview with Gerald (Jerry) Kalayjian Jr.

Currently living in Massachusetts with his family, Gerald (Jerry) Kalayjian, Jr. is originally from Binghamton, NY. He is a second generation Armenian-American on his father’s side and he has English and Irish ancestry on his mother's side. He has four children, two girls and two boys. Jerry is a teacher in Massachusetts.

Interview with Geraldine Czebiniak

Geraldine Czebiniak is a Ukrainian immigrant who left Ukraine at age seven during the Second World War. She went with her family to Germany to stay in a camp for displaced people. She migrated to the the United States when she was 13 years old. She is a member of Sacred Hearth Orthodox Church and resides in Binghamton with her family.

Interview with Gladys Gitchell

Interview with Grace Baradet

After graduating from Lowell Business School, Grace became a secretary and went to work in Washington for the state department. Afterwards, she worked as the the Ministry of Aid. Grace was a daughter of Armenian immigrants who came to the United States from Greece and Turkey in the early 1910's. Grace has three sons.

Interview with H. Bruce Franklin

H. Bruce Franklin is an American cultural historian and scholar. He has received top awards in American Studies, science fiction, prison literature, and marine ecology. Franklin has written and edited nineteen books, three hundred professional articles, and has participated in several film productio...

Interview with Hal Phoenix Muscat

Hal Phoenix Muscat is a Vietnam War veteran who became a GI activist when he began opposing the U.S. war against Vietnam, in 1968, while stationed in Germany. Upon his return to Fox Dix, N.J in April 1969, he became involved with SHAKEDOWN (an anti-war publication for GIs on base and off ba...

Interview with Halima Taha

Interview with Halima Zebari