This year Carbondale, Colorado celebrates the 54th Annual Carbondale Mountain Fair. Tune in as Laurie Loeb remembers Carbondale and Aspen in the 1970s and the little big idea to start a summer fair celebrating the art and music of the valley.

Haregewewoin Woldemariam grew up in Ethiopia, a country that has struggled with war, instability and corruption. She reflects on how the love her mother and father showed her as a child has carried her through life's worst hard times.

Ho Jin Chee known to his friends as H.J. remembers how his parents had toflee the South Korean mafia leaving him asthe sole provider for his younger siblings at the age of sixteen.

Tune in as Dr. George Mizner remembers when he was eight years old watching the Nazis goose step down the street in front of his apartment in Austria. He knew, even then, that his life had changed forever.

Tune in as Kurt Bresnitz remembers the Spring of 1938 when he was preparing to graduate from high school until Hitler stormed into his country and made him an Austrian refugee, seeking asylum in the United States.

On this months episode of Immigrant Stories, host Walter Gallacher interviews Misheel Chuluun. In 1991, Misheel Chuluun was eleven and living in Mongolia when the Soviet Union collapsed and brought her country's economy down with it. Tune in as she remembers her family's struggles to survive.

Klaus Obermeyer celebrates his one hundred and fifthbirthday this month. Tune in as he describes how he madehis way from immigrant day laborer to winter sports icon.

Kaziemierz Kozak grew up in the 1930's in the Polish countryside. Life was good, until the day World War II came to his little farm. Tune in as Kaziemierz remembers life on the front lines.

Wafa Saeed talks about her mother country, Sudan, and the Sudanese people's ongoing struggle for independence.

Mercedes Garcia was fifteen when El Salvador's civil war came to her village. Tune in as she remembers her childhood and her perilous journey to the United States.