Kerndt discusses life in Lansing, Iowa: the family business, social life, marriage, vacations, life in California, WWII, the South Pacific, claustrophobia, therapy, and philosophy of life.

6 tapes, 540 mins. Interview by Matthew R. Nachtwey, 1992 RESTRICTED: no legal release

Mary Nachtwey recalls growing up in Lansing, Iowa, education in Dubuque, training to be an airplane pilot, and raising a family in Springfield, Illinois.

2 tapes, 135 mins. Interview by Matthew R. Nachtwey, 1991 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. For collateral file see Nachtwey, Robert A.

Robert Nachtwey, doctor of medicine, discusses growing up in Lansing, Iowa, studying at Notre Dame and St. Louis Universities, internship at the Mayo Clinic, WWII service as captain and medic, and practicing internal medicine in Springfield, Illinois.

10 tapes, 840 mins. Interview by Matthew R. Nachtwey, 1991 OPEN: narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file: interviewer's notes and a partial unrevised transcript.

Kathryn Patton discusses her family history: Cherokee ancestors and history, growing up in Oklahoma, moving and living in New Jersey, New York City, and Springfield, Illinois; marriage; work for Badges Meter Co., and the dedication of Patton Park at Sangamon State University.

4 tapes, 360 mins. Interview by Matthew R. Nachtwey, 1992 OPEN: Narrator reserves right to review edited transcript. See collateral file