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Retired firefighter John Vigiano, Sr. remembers both sons lost in the World Trade Center on 9/11 – John Vigiano, Jr,. also a firefighter, and Joe V...
- Added: Sep 14, 2023
- Length: 06:15
Retired New York City firefighter John Vigiano Sr. remembers his sons, John Jr., a firefighter, and Joe, a policeman, who both died at the World Tr...
- Added: Sep 12, 2023
- Length: 02:57
Natalie and David Young remember abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, who was killed three years after they sought his help in Wichita, Kansas.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WYAP
- Added: Jun 28, 2022
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
In this piece we hear four people from around the world talking about their mothers and who they are because of their mothers. From a mother in Bos...
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMPG, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 10, 2021
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
Carmencristina Moreno and her sister, Rosemary Selzer, remember their father, songwriter Luis M. Moreno, and the bittersweet legacy he left behind.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
At StoryCorps in Laramie, Wyoming, Rodger McDaniel came into the booth to remember his father and how finding a family treasure helped him see his ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 05:58
There is a group in Durham, NC called “Parents of Murdered Children.” This week, we meet three of its members.
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 25:09
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On July 20, 2012, a gunman shot and killed 12 people in a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. One of the victims was Alex Sullivan. He was ce...
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
At the beginning of the Iraq War, nearly 40,000 members of the United States military were not citizens. Army Private First Class Diego Rincon was ...
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- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
A story told in two parts: Kayla Wilson came to StoryCorps in 2006 to talk about her mom’s drug addition and incarceration. Ten years later, she re...
- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 02:57
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
High school freshmen Jasmine and Emily ask their classmates what they think of kids who cut or harm themselves intentionally. Why do people self ha...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 04:05
We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Shirley Parrello speaks with former Marine Sergeant Kevin Powell, who was with her son Lance...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 3
Marcia Sutton talks to her partner, Sandra Sowder, about what happened after she came out....
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 02:10
- Purchases: 2
Kris Kalberer and her teenage daughter, Erika, talk about being homeless.
Bought by WEZU, KERA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WTJU
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
N’MPower participant, Antonio Martinez, interviews Spanish Colonial artist John Gallegos, in a community engagement project between the Museum of I...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:34
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Dennis Hale tells his wife, Barbara, about being the sole survivor of the Daniel J. Morrell shipwreck on Lake Huron in 1966.
Bought by WEZU, KMUD, WTJU, and Radio Newark
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 4
Sally Edwards (L) and Lue Hutchinson (R) remember becoming friends after they both lost sons in the Gulf War.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 24, 2013
- Length: 02:13
- Purchases: 1
