The day after Thanksgiving is the day that StoryCorps has set aside to ask folks to spend one hour recording a conversation with someone important to them. You can interview anyone you choose: an older relative, a friend, a teacher, or someone from the neighborhood, StoryCorps suggests.
For this National Day of Listening, StoryCorps offers a free Do-It-Yourself Instruction Guide. The organization also has a question list and a question generator for compiling questions to ask your your interviewee.