Interview with April Molina
Date2025 November 2
Mediumborn digital audio file
DimensionsDuration: 52 Minutes, 21 Seconds
ClassificationsInformation Artifacts
Credit LineCommunity History Project Collection
DescriptionAudio file of interview with April Molina. She was interviewed by Maria McCauley on November 2, 2025 in Enfield, Connecticut.
April Molina was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in her life.
April Molina is a divorced mother of three children. The significant moment of change in April’s life was losing her mother. April discusses 40 years of life with her mother. She recounts her young life living with her mother and sporadic visitation with her mother during her teen years. She also describes her mother’s struggles with alcohol, drug addiction, and abusive relationships as well as April’s choice to keep her mother out of her children’s lives.
April describes what it was like living with her father, grandmother, and stepmother after her father was given custody of her at a young age. April explains how becoming a parent helped her understand her father’s actions.
She talks about how her childhood impacted how she treats her children today. April describes her drinking habits and the ways in which she believes they are impacting her children.
April describes the night that she received the call that her mother was in the hospital with an aneurysm, as well as the following days. After difficult family interactions, April was the only family member there when her mother died. April took the reins planning her mother’s funeral, during which she was able to confront her feeling of hatred for her mother’s boyfriend.
The lesson that April learned from this experience is that you cannot help someone who does not want to be helped.
April Molina was interviewed as part of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History's Community History Project discussing moments of change in her life.
April Molina is a divorced mother of three children. The significant moment of change in April’s life was losing her mother. April discusses 40 years of life with her mother. She recounts her young life living with her mother and sporadic visitation with her mother during her teen years. She also describes her mother’s struggles with alcohol, drug addiction, and abusive relationships as well as April’s choice to keep her mother out of her children’s lives.
April describes what it was like living with her father, grandmother, and stepmother after her father was given custody of her at a young age. April explains how becoming a parent helped her understand her father’s actions.
She talks about how her childhood impacted how she treats her children today. April describes her drinking habits and the ways in which she believes they are impacting her children.
April describes the night that she received the call that her mother was in the hospital with an aneurysm, as well as the following days. After difficult family interactions, April was the only family member there when her mother died. April took the reins planning her mother’s funeral, during which she was able to confront her feeling of hatred for her mother’s boyfriend.
The lesson that April learned from this experience is that you cannot help someone who does not want to be helped.
Object number2024.79.96
NotesSubject Note: The Connecticut Museum of Culture and History’s Community History Project (CHP) is a public-facing initiative, focused on contemporary collecting, gathering items of the recent past as well as from events happening today. This program developed community historians to identify, document, and preserve their experiences as residents of Connecticut, and to share these experiences during a series of community presentations. The project focused on the theme "Redefining Moments of Change." Conneticans share stories of people or events who have changed their lives or how they have sparked change in the lives of others.Cataloging Note: Digitization and access to this collection is supported by a Congressionally Directed grant through the U.S. Department of Education.
Subject Terms
- Enfield
- People of color
- Oral history
- Interviews
- Oral narratives
- Women
- Family
- Relationships
- Divorce
- Children
- Parents
- Death
- Loss
- Motherhood
- Hispanic people
- Alcoholism
- Alcohol
- Suicide
- Drug use
- Victims of domestic violence and abuse
- Interviews and Oral Histories
- Born Digital Audio
- Community History Project U.S. Department of Education grant
- Redefining Moments of Change Collection
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