StoryCorps

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StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

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584 Pieces

Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.


Pieces

Caption: Andy Downs (L) and Angelia Sheer (R)
On October 4, 1971, George Giffe, a 35-year-old Tennessee man suffering from mental illness hijacked a charter plane at gunpoint from the Nashville...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chassitty (L) and Noramay Cadena
Noramay Cadena, a mechanical engineer with several degrees from MIT, tells her teenage daughter, Chassitty Saldana, about the summer her parents to...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, WEZU, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Sep 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Angela Stowe (L) and Glenda Elliott (R)
Glenda Elliott, 75, tells her friend Angela Stowe about the love of her life, and what it was like to love another woman long before the gay rights...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WCQS, WMMT, WMUU-LP, and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Isaac Feliciano
Isaac Feliciano, a longtime worker at Brooklyn's historic Green-Wood Cemetery, remembers being at his job on September 11, 2001, when his wife, Ros...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Donna Orolin
Donna Orolin remembers the disappearance of her husband, Private First Class Brian Orolin, and the day he came home from Afghanistan.

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and WTJU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Herman (L) and John Heyn
Herman Heyn tells his nephew, John, about spending almost three decades as a street corner astronomer, giving passers-by the chance to look through...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Adam (L) and Jacqueline (R) Graff
Adam Graff, a member of New Orleans' all-volunteer, mental health crisis unit, speaks with his wife, Jacqueline, about the surge in patients after ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WTJU, and Blue Mountain Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Tyra Treadway (L) and Ardyn Treadway
Tyra Treadway and her daughter, Ardyn, remember their husband and father, Dr. James Kent Treadway, a beloved pediatrician in New Orleans. Dr. Tread...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:06
Caption: Lillie Cotlon (L) and Burnell Cotlon (R), Credit: Ian Spencer Cook for StoryCorps
Burnell Cotlon owns and operates the only grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward. When it opened in 2014, it was the first grocery store to serve th...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Andrea Cleveland (L) and Monica Harwell (R)
Monica Harwell, talks to her daughter, Andrea Cleveland, about being the first woman to climb electric utility poles for ConEd in New York.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 3