Storyteller: Maria Gonzalez-Block

Interviewer: John Block

Date: 10/25/2014

Language: English

Initiative: Historias Initiative

Description: Husband and wife, John Block (63), and Maria Gonzalez-Block (63), tell the story of how they met at camp, and talk about the disagreement that they had when they became pregnant with their third child.

Subjects: Sons, 1970's, Seventies, Birth of Children, Childhood Memories, Daughters, Divorce, Ethnic Identity, Feuds, First Meetings, Grandsons, Instrument Playing, Judaism, Marriage, Pregnancy and Prenatal Care, Presbyterian, Travel Stories, Urban Life, Weddings, 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' Song, Abortion, Camp, Family Camp, Nicholas Gonzalez-Block, Samantha Gonzalez-Block, Vanessa Gonzalez-Block, Brooklyn, New York, California, Chicago, Illinois, Tulsa, Oklahoma, YMCA Camp of Greater New York