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Gertrude and Meg Gilman |
| "When he retired from teaching, he was 69, so he ran away and joined the circus..." |
| You may not think it to look at her, but Sanborton’s Gertrude Gilman was once a circus clown. The 92 year old spoke with her daughter, Meg, about her time on the road. |
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David Krempels and Marquis Walsh |
| "During that time, emotionally, I just hit the very bottom..everything I had known was gone..." |
| David Krempels of Portsmouth tells his friend Marquis Walsh how an accident sent his life went off the rails and how he managed to gain control again. |
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James and Tim Crawford |
| "The first time I saw my child…I was so happy I actually felt weak..." |
| Manchester’s James Crawford stopped by the Mobile Booth last month to answer some questions about himself and his family from his 14 year old son, Tim. |
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May Gruber |
| "It made the start of unions in New York, because the doors were nailed shut..." |
| On March 25, 1911 a devastating fire erupted in the Triangle Waist Factory in New York City. Goffstown’s May Gruber’s mother was a garment worker at the factory and retells her story. |
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John and Diane Schaeffer |
| "The children had lost their parents during the war and it was just amazing how many there were..." |
| John Schaefer was an army officer stationed in Korea, during the conflict in that country. He saw first hand the effects of war, and tells his daughter Diane about how he tried to help. |
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George and Destie Sprague |
| "How can you hate them if you’re there to help them?" |
| An 11 year veteran of the Marines and the National Guard, George Sprague spent 12 months in Iraq. He and his wife, Destie, talk about how the war affects soldiers differently. |
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Kathy Bates and Lynne Vachon |
| "Life stops when my personal care stops..." |
| Somersworth’s Kathy Bates explains to her friend Lynne Vachon some of the challenges she faces on a daily basis. |
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Douglas and Kathy Van Weelden |
| "He sent twenty thousand men to get me out of prison..." |
| Douglas Van Weelden was a pilot in World War II, when he was shot down over Germany, captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp. His daughter, Kathy, asks him about his time there. |
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Ruth Smith |
| "There are some mysteries in this room that we're going to uncover..." |
| Ruth Smith of Canterbury recalls an historic discovery on an historic day and how it shaped her teaching philosophy. |
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Norma Price |
| "When we were getting married I had to fill out a 65-page questionnaire, and he had to sign a letter of conditional resignation..." |
| Keene's Norma Price stopped at the mobile booth with her daughter, Karen House, to talk about about what it was like living with the secret she and her husband had to keep. |
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Louis Emond |
| "They had found a WWII bomb that had missed the bridge and had not detonated..." |
| Louis Emond spent some time in Italy before moving to Nashua - and running into someone else who’d spent some time in Italy. |
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Myrian and Wendy Bergeron |
| "I never said ‘Why me?’ again..." |
| New Boston resident Wendy Bergeron asks her mother, Myrian, about what effects adversity has had on her life. |
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Governor Walter Peterson |
| "The one person I would like to have at that dinner would be my father..." |
| Former Governor Walter Peterson stopped by the Mobile Booth and answered a few questions from his friend, Manchester Senator Lou D’Allesandro. |
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Gwen Gerhard |
| "I’ll stay with your ship ‘til she sinks to the bottom of the sea..." |
| Gwen Gerhard from Merrimack tells her daughter Katrina Boyajian about how their Swedish ancestors arrived in the U.S. via India. |
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Jason and Martha Fournier |
| "It's just knowing that when we do move to that other place, that it's all going to be okay ..." |
| 11 year old Jason Fournier from Goffstown talks with his mother about what he fears most in the world. |
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