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I was in a block that was sort of between two neighborhoods Borough Park and Sunset Park. I was the youngest of four children… four surviving children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539632622349-0F55QK25SZOLAIAORLS8/pic_E_no_exif%2B%281%29.png Gloria's Story - Gloria This podcast is a co-production between children journalists who took part in the IndyKids Summer Camp, and The Grandparents StoryLab producers. IndyKids is a social justice news source that is created by kids, for kids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897113180-M73EA3TYZBGKOFBQFFPF/pic_B_no_exif.jpg Gloria's Story First memory I have written poems about when I was about one and a half or two years old I was being ridden in my baby carriage along the sidewalk. My brother was next to my mother, who was wheeling it. My brother was next to her and we were going towards 8th Avenue. I don't know… shopping or whatever it was. I remember it was a spring day, early spring and I was looking up at the leaves of the trees there were a lot of trees on my block which was very nice. I was looking up the leaves moving. Because I was being wheeled…. And I remember, that's what I remember. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897912929-ZLXBSDWOSYKILRQNKP53/Scan+45.jpg Gloria's Story I decided to go to law school when I was had been out of college for several years. A part of what helped me go to law school was the women's movement. Which began in like the late 1960s 69 to 70 or so. When I started school in a class of 200. There were only six women in that in that class. When I finished law school there was there was quite a higher percentage of women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897611391-GGETCZ9MPHJ3JLOLUL48/Scan+42.jpg Gloria's Story My parents were immigrants both of them from the Ukraine. Being Jewish they didn't say that they were from the Ukraine because it was segregated. Jews were discriminated against. Jews lived in their own parts of small cities or what were called Shtetls, they were small towns mostly occupied by Jews. Their family ran a factory manufacturing special shirts for the peasants, the men had like a costume with embroidery on it. The Jewish people there were trying to get out. I mean I'm glad that my parents both emigrated from there because otherwise Stalin was very active in the Ukraine. It was a dictatorship very bad… killed a lot of people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897331930-3DCXVST4AQ67GAGGN46I/Samira+B.jpg Gloria's Story I told you how old I was? 76. It was great, having… I mean like I feel so alone now. I have two cousins left out of everybody, because I was the youngest, everybody else died…including my siblings. All of them are dead. The only one left. There was a big age range among my siblings, among the children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897846729-DKVZPNJUUGEZV0TTMR9U/pic_F_no_exif.jpg Gloria's Story My brother took me horseback riding. I was given a horse that was supposed to be really tame and quiet because I was very young and it was my first time on a horse. When I got on the horse all by itself decided to walk out street traffic. I started crying. Anyway from then on they had somebody leading the horse somebody from the stable led the horse on this trip. I think my idol growing up, was my brother Robbie, the one who taught me a lot. He sort of took care of me, took me to places and museums I wouldn't have gone to otherwise because my mother was always busy with cooking and cleaning and all that. My brother introduced me to the Museum of Modern Art and to its film program and to other museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539195726734-XIVSIQNSEJZFUQ7XTJAV/pic_C_no_exif.jpg Gloria's Story - Children’s Artwork After listening to Gloria’s story children were asked to draw some of the memories she shared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897173180-NCL87S29OH05EOJ26XDV/Scan+43.jpg Gloria's Story I remember most and best the Summers where we went off to either the beach at Brighton Beach, Coney Island or Sunset Park Pool, which is a city park with big pools- three big pools, a diving pool, a wading pool and a swimming pool. So I would go there with friends from the block and with our parents. Just my parents and or my cousins… my aunts and cousins lived in my building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539897434424-S5UR0RT3ZZLD3RZMJRMS/pic_L_no_exif.png Gloria's Story So my oldest brother was 19 years older than me and then my sister was like 16 years older and then my next brother was eight years older than me. So it was a long range, a big range of ages for them to grow up in. In fact my oldest brother was away in in World War II in the army when I was born and he didn't see me until I was over a year old on furlough. He came on furlough, you know what is furlough is? It’s when they allow the soldiers sailors to take a break and come home and visit their families and then they go back. But I do have a memory... He had either called or something to tell my mother when he would be coming and the doorbell rang and my mother said go open the door to your brother Sidney. I hadn't seen him. And I said, “mommy there are two Sidneys here,” because he brought a friend. They were both in uniform. I didn't know which was which. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539898102319-TTRUQIX0Z19WF5I3CUG8/Scan+46.jpg Gloria's Story I fear...being alone when I'm really old because I'm getting there. And I fear... Yeah I guess... that's my worst fear is being alone. I dream of having somebody maybe to live with... I don't know that's going to happen... That's my deepest but my deepest emotions right now that fear and longing you know so. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1539195944852-UMRI2B5AZK910XU62PIG/_MG_6883.jpg Gloria's Story - Workshops For this workshop we partnered with Indy Kids. The Grandparents StoryLab trained the young journalists in audio storytelling and podcasting. 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Besides that there were what were called programs. Do you know that word pogrom? I think it has a definite meaning meaning against the Jews, where Ukrainians, Cossacks on horses would come through their towns with swords. There were also occasions when the Russian military, both I think after the revolution you know the Russian Revolution 1917? Both before and after. They would come to try to conscript young men of military age. I remember a story where my uncle Rubin who was the next youngest from my father was hidden in a factory behind some mattresses so that he wouldn't be known. So he wouldn't be...it was compulsory, compulsory conscription. They would just go through and say you, you, you. 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I reside in Staten Island New York. I am Seventy years of age. This year when I finish the New York City Marathon, it will be my 134th total Marathon and I was 53 when I ran my first marathon. My wife's sister's husband has ran the New York City Marathon for about 36 consecutive years, so they would always go out to support him and I would always say I'll watch him on TV. When I started doing a little running myself I decided to go out and instantly I thought I gotta try this one day. I can tell you, as soon as I crossed the finish line I knew that I wanted to do it again. I knew that I wanted to do it again. Some people finish and they say never again…some changed their minds after a couple of weeks. As soon as I crossed I said oh my God I've got to wait another year to do this again? It was a great experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540550273960-XECWQ49OUIUUNC7ZJOBB/brooklyn+bridge.jpg Ben's Story “My name is Daphne Cox and I'm from downtown Brooklyn. The group is phenomenon. We walk every Tuesday and we’re so happy about that. We look forward to doing that and hopefully we’ll be walking in a marathon one of these days.” I get a little goosebumps telling this story. There was a race that we put on and the Striders were invited to and we were given up finishes medals at the end. He wasn't one of my groups, but he was a strider. At the end I see him and I see he’s emotional, literally tears and I walked over to him and I asked him, what’s wrong, was there anything I can help him with?’ And he said no, I just kind of emotional because I'm 62 years old and this is the first medal I’ve ever won. Those are the things that keep people… and it was nice that he was man enough to let it show. So that people could say wow you know and there's so many people that haven't done the things that we take for granted. I take people on health walks and they say oh my god this is the first time I've done something like this or an event of walking one mile. Our last walk was Saturday, was a mile walk, it was raining and 19 to 20 people showed up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540556771034-38O91F1TKRZQVV3BWFWB/finishline2.JPG Ben's Story I don't care if you walk a mile or run a marathon. It's not important to me it's not important to run a marathon in four hours or six hours. If you set out to do it and you can do it, do it, but compete against yourself. Do things that you want to do. I like when I'm asked the question. Oh, you've done so many marathons is going to be easy for you. No, I still don't sleep well the day before from nerves. I still questions my myself, how are you going to do this time? Yeah…so that's what that's what keeps me going right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540500897611-CMZQZC3LT1MJ36458SVF/map+of+U.S+.jpg Ben's Story As I started to expand myself and started to run, not at a young age, when I ran my first marathon, at 53, I was able to visit every state of this country. When I'm asked which is one of the greatest accomplishments out of running, that is one, that I can now say I've visited every state of our country. Striders is a walking program that NYRR offers and we go to different locations. Most of them are senior centers but we do have sessions that meet at parks. It's targeted for older adults, but that’s not necessarily a requirement anybody could be a strider. There's no age limitation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540550297223-BZ20ZCILQMY3GB7C57CL/finishline2.JPG Ben's Story They had an opportunity for me to become a Striders coach, so I've been doing it for three years now. The program is a walk based program and most coaches will do a little warm up, then we go for a walk and then we do a little cool down “We’re at Canarsie park located in Canarsie Brooklyn and we’re on a striders program walk. Today we're going to walk about a mile and a half.” The biggest difference that I've seen is the improvement in the participants. We started out in this particular location the JASA Senior Center location, we started out with maybe an average of 8 to 10 people walk on any given Tuesday and now our average averages like 15 to 20 on any given day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540556903632-Q2X40V6HR3B25IWPZYMK/drawing+a+map+of+the+US+.jpg Ben's Story I think what keeps me motivated I'm learning to share myself with others. I've always been too timid, I don't like talking about myself, I'm real bad but I've found a way of talking enough to inspire people without. I've never planted it this way but I think the fact that I can tell them this and I started when I was 53, so it's never too old. But I’ve found a way of talking to people and inspiring them with coming across like I'm blowing my own horn so... I'd like to motivate people I know to health benefits. https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/jillians-story daily 0.75 2022-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540823372693-BLN1LDIP4PZ8GAZV723Z/abigal+two.jpg Jillian's Story When you're running a marathon. Nobody can run it for you. So it's just yourself. When I run I play games with myself. For example, when I’m at 5km or 3miles I will have a little treat and then another 3miles, I'll have another treat. What do you do with your dog, when he doesn’t want to move it. You give him a biscuit. So and then when I'm running... I plan things, I visualize things and it's not easy... but life is not easy… right? You know if you wanted to be a musician you have to work really really hard. So it just makes you very very strong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540945713282-OJCWKX67GGTCJZI180YW/isabella+much+better+photo.png Jillian's Story Kalispera my name is Evangelia... So my I was baptized. Evangelia is quite a mouthful. My friends in English would say, “Evangelia what kind of name is that.?” So then my Macedonian name is Jilla. Jilla which is pretty close to Jillian. At this stage I had learned Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a barrel of water... So I came, Jill, Jilla, Jill and then decided Jill was not sophisticated enough so I became Jillian…Just because of Jack and Jill went up the hill. I hope you're all sitting down. I'm very old. I'm 73. I run five days a week usually. Training for the marathon I usually do my little three miles, four miles, six miles and then one day, every two weeks, every fortnight, I would do a long run. So I would start off with six, eight, twelve, fifteen, eighteen. I live near Central Park. I run in Central Park. It's just wonderful. You have squirrels, you have birds you have people, it's a very very exciting park. It's very active and very very inspiring to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1544646448304-XCGTB8G9STNZJ1G05AYF/IMG_4729.jpg Jillian's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540944450198-5AQG5WYXI5DRDYPAXL3I/Jillian+in+a+boat.jpeg Jillian's Story “What medal are you wearing,?” asked Talia. It's last year's marathon medal, 2017. “When you run these types of marathons is there's a certain feeling you have, do you feel proud?” asked Abigal. You know it's hard to explain how you feel when you cross the finish line. It's like you could do anything you set your mind to and I tell my friends they should run a marathon, one marathon in their lifetime. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540945499950-VB8IGOL6TGNT5ITKAS6H/drawing+three.jpg Jillian's Story - Jillian Lazaridis Listen to the podcast and see the children's artwork illustrating Jillian’s story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540944679259-CGPPSBJ8K754PNNJWS1Q/isabella+%281%29.jpg Jillian's Story - Workshops This Grandparent’s StoryLab workshop was held with IndyKids, a social justice news source created by and for kids. The children interviewed Jillian and drew the pictures depicting her story. The final drawing for the piece came from another workshop run by a parent at their home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540894500992-O4X3PTPPVITAZEIOL656/Screen+Shot+2018-10-30+at+6.23.34+am.png Jillian's Story I was born in Europe, Greece. It was near the Yugoslav border. When I was 9 and a half we caught a boat to Australia. I remember when we got off the boat we came in at night and just imagine... I lived in a little village where there was no electricity, no running water.. and then as we're coming by sea, I see all these twinkling lights. That was Melbourne. If you had never seen lights and you saw them, what would you think? They could be stars.. yes... Candles .. Fireflies... Yes... I thought it was fairyland. I thought that we had come from my little tiny village where once the sunset was it. You would walk around with a candle. I remember coming in to Port Melbourne, that's where the ships docked and then we got off the next morning and my mother's sister was waiting, we could see our relatives waiting for us…Ah… You bring back happy memories for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1540823264137-15QHLKHWMB4G2GEGKZDT/renee+and+william.jpg Jillian's Story “How many marathons have you done? Not just NYC but around the world,?” asked William. I have to estimate how many I won't count them now because you want to know how many marathons I've done in total. I would say it's about 50. “So when you're running marathons do you feel relaxed and happy that you're just doing this or do you feel like tension and scared that you might not finish. Or you might like get hurt or something?,” asked William. I feel all those things when you're running. I feel happy. I feel ecstatic. I feel afraid. Will I be able to finish the marathon? That is a concern. https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/roses-story daily 0.75 2022-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1576102711869-9X3DZVW19ELX3W60DEDR/0c791639-d485-410b-88d9-ca88bd8a1903.JPG Rose's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1576102712000-16BANJA4O63JDIVRZ2RR/78af558a-4b2c-42c1-94ae-bce0c5ba63ac.JPG Rose's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1576102712407-HFNGQAX435RS4TSN5KWP/ab1c1cc3-022d-4098-a437-2ae8e64cdf8d.JPG Rose's Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1576102976936-WTJFFRVG67LRT9YBWI9F/5f7c1b4b-32eb-454a-9c34-fda047d2ad9d.JPG Rose's Story https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/roses-story-1 daily 0.75 2019-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1551128034443-5VJWIKUYVOVKMUTBJCPZ/0c791639-d485-410b-88d9-ca88bd8a1903.JPG Rose's Story But I had other toys and I used to like to draw, also I used to like to make things I used to like to fold paper to make fans and to make other things. I used to like to cut out.. We had special books where you had dolls and you cut out the dresses to put on the doll. I used to like to cut things out and paste them onto paper like pretty pictures. Amélie: Did you ever make something that you've never created before? Rose: I used to play sometimes with my brother’s toys they had a set, you could build things with and it was called a Meccano set. That was like sticks that you fitted together with little screws to make buildings and other things. Amélie: Were they real screws and did you actually have to use stuff to pop them in? Rose: Yes, I think so, they were real screws. I can't remember very well because it was a long time ago... I used to play with my brothers because they liked to play football and cricket. They had little cars and they had little farm animals. Siena: But you’re a girl! How could you play with boy toys? Rose: Oh girls can play with boy toys, and boys can play with girl toys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1551128385031-G6IWSSIF2IXH32V6LVM9/78af558a-4b2c-42c1-94ae-bce0c5ba63ac.JPG Rose's Story Amélie: If you had a backyard what would you do in it? Rose: Well we did have a backyard and there was a little slope in the backyard so we'd run down the hill. We'd have races coming down the hill and later when my brothers made a billy cart out of the wheels of my dolls pram we used to sit on the billy cart and roll down the hill. Amélie: That would be fun. Rose: We had birds that used to fly around and they swooped down or little birds that would sit on the ground and sometimes we used to take bread crumbs out to feed the birds so that they'd have something to eat. Siena: Grandma…I’m hungry! Rose: Well go and eat something. Siena: I need for you to make something for me. Rose: What do you want me to make for you? Siena: A sandwich. Rose: What sort of sandwich? Siena:honey! Rose: Honey?!?!? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1551127887895-DOQTZSH0PCPBKNZR1GVY/ab1c1cc3-022d-4098-a437-2ae8e64cdf8d.JPG Rose's Story Siena: Did you have a museum when you were little? Rose: Yes there was was a museum. Sometimes we used to go to the museum but sometimes my dad used to take us into the city and sometimes we would get a little boat that went up the Yarra River. Sometimes we used to go to the zoo and at the zoo we used to have a ride on the elephant. You can't do that anymore. Siena: Grandma, how old were you when you rode the elephant? Rose: Maybe I was seven or eight. They had a special seat on top of the elephant and the children could sit on the seat maybe three or four children at a time and the elephant would walk around. Siena: Who would actually need to ride zoo animals? because it's alright, but you’ve got to ask them first. Rose: Oh yes. Now you can't ride zoo animals because they have to look after the animals and people might hurt them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1551125390802-4SCYNSE9EO55QTSDYQK9/62a0a14d-ce10-4361-84c9-1301cdfd9b52.JPG Rose's Story - Rose’s Story Listen to the podcast and see her grandkids artwork illustrating Rose’s story. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1551127254646-9TJRT4M0RM1SSKNX0H3T/5f7c1b4b-32eb-454a-9c34-fda047d2ad9d.jpg Rose's Story I’m Siena and I’m 5. I am Ameile and I am going to interview my Grandma. Amélie: What is your full name? Rose: My full name is Rosaria, but when I was at school one of the teacher’s thought Rosaria Bongiorno was a very long name, so she said can we shorten your name to Rose? Now, most people call me Rose. Amélie: When were you born? Rose: I was born in 1938. Amélie: That’s a very long time from now. Rose: It certainly is, it’s 80 years! Amélie: Wow! What was your favorite toy when you were little? Rose: I think my favorite toy…I had two dolls and I had a very special dolls pram which was green and I used to take my dolls for a walk and my auntie Josie made a very special cover to cover the dolls. When I took them for a walk…and after I was using the dolls pram my three brothers turned it into a billy cart! They used the wheels to make a billy cart… https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/double-dutch-dreamz daily 0.75 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570676886761-ZNOB33VJ3JM20J5RZBBW/IMG_7330.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz There is a lot of seriousness going on in the world and I think you can use sport and play as a means of being able to change the course of ideas. In Double Dutch program one primary part of what we do is under the umbrella of “social justice”. So we write rhymes that address issues of racism, sexism and all the other ‘isms’. So using games as an approach is a way to get young people involved... and look what it yields. Games can help. They’re like oh you're doing that? I want to do it too... Can you show me how? You know cooperative learning through games is a wonderful way to help a child grow up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570740282531-128EHC0WBHYRIK4ZEYJ0/Zariah+drawing.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz Talir: What was it like doing double dutch back then? Rev. Malika Lee Whitney:There was a lot more opportunity to do it…on the concrete, in front of your building, in parks… It was a lot safer but also there were always adults looking out for you wherever we were. Street games growing up was something that was always very popular among children in the neighborhood. So there were games where we drew outlines of games like hopscotch for fun. There was a fire hydrant in the summertime that was turned on and that was your sprinkler and means of cooling off. 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Rev. Malika Lee Whitney: I was wondering when this was going to get personal. Well, one of the things that I can tell you, is that if you were jumping in the community, like in front of your building you put your best jump when you saw someone that you liked! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570740310622-SW9ROQYR0STCBEQULPCQ/SIster+Malika+Dilans+Drawing+copy.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz Dejany: How has Harlem changed from when he was growing up to now? Rev. Malika Lee Whitney: Oh it's changed quite a bit. Some of what I'm seeing is the cultural footprint of the community transitioning. By that I mean a lot has to do with the housing and gentrification. And while it's perhaps something that's likely to happen where the community changes in ways that is not always comfortable for everyone I feel like we have to honour those people who have given a community it's trademark, what it's known for. We really don't want that to be erased. The history of Harlem is like none other you know vibrant in the way of its music and culture, literature theatre, dance all aspects of culture. People of great minds folks who've invented. People of great minds folks who've invented things. There's just so much richness here in this community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570674851027-S8E49649QWQ78J3CVO8I/Pick+up+your+feet.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz Milan:Why did you choose to work with youth and teach children? Rev. Malika Lee Whitney: I think working with children is something that I inherited from my mother because she also not only took care of me but she also took care of children in the neighborhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1565960599544-HA7OSI5DAQV90G4GOJLX/Screen+Shot+2019-08-16+at+9.00.46+am.png Double Dutch Dreamz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570740330990-19D2RQYYKK5DOVS2R8F8/Rev.+Whitney+Milan+Drawing+copy.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz It invites people of all cultures all backgrounds all sizes. Ropes don't discriminate. If one does have some physical limitations we can find some kind of way that they can participate you know even if doing the call and response rhyme chants. So it doesn't doesn't discriminate by age. If the knees continue to work I think I’ll be doing it until I’m 100. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570818606586-XS8NZZNVDVPNWK2SY29Y/Zariah+and+Kgari.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz - Bonus Audio! Double Dutch Haiku Poem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1565895498247-LC67HMW0GQAGKNPX7PM0/group+photo+may+19.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz - Workshops This story and art came out of a podcast workshop that The Grandparent’s StoryLab held in collaboration with The Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling, Double Dutch Dreamz, and The Significant Elders. To book a podcast workshop with The Grandparents Storylab please email grandparentsstorylab@gmail.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570677132924-8F28BJG2X5G21XI6GSYH/Zariah.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz - “When I double dutch I feel free” This story came out of a podcast workshop The Grandparents StoryLab ran at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling with Rev. Whitney’s Double Dutch Dreamz crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570739697327-17LA51L6YSZHA215NMF6/double+dutch+carter.jpg Double Dutch Dreamz Zariah: Why do you like double dutch so much? Rev. Malika Lee Whitney: Well I love it for what I see it brings out of the young people that I work with and I really enjoy it because I know it's a great way to exercise. And it's a wonderful way to make friends. And it gives you an opportunity to test your skills and be confident The heart is racing, you're excited. You feel like everything is working for you. You know the feet are moving the correct way. You're maintaining a rhythm. Very often you're being watched somewhere either by your friends if it happens to be on a stage... that encourages you. So you feel good about yourself. You have a sense of accomplishment. https://www.thegrandparentsstorylab.org/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2023-10-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/9d473295-39f2-4441-ba6d-ab78700453ca/IMG_6531%2520Edited+Edited.JPG Margaretta Bobo Goines Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/5deadf8c-e0c1-407d-808f-1b496601b4ec/Copy+of+Copy+of+_MG_7906.jpg Margaretta Bobo Goines Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/c4d7eb40-fdd8-4008-9955-04f5a3e003d0/Untitled_1.15.2.jpg Margaretta Bobo Goines Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59e5084290bade8da90c831c/1570815544526-0KONN06BHQ3YTDVXMHUB/art+making+workshop.jpg Margaretta Bobo Goines Story - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.