StoryCorps: National Social History Project Records Ordinary People Telling Their Stories

by Democracy Now (reposted)

Wed, Jul 5, 2006 6:33AM

We hear the voices of people, citizen and non-citizen, old and young telling their stories to each other. A grandmother tells her grandson about her own childhood. A young man proposes to his girlfriend. A soldier talks about his experience in war. A father remembers a loved one who passed away....All of these are stories told by ordinary Americans. Now, thousands of them are preserved forever - in sound.

Three years ago, award-winning radio producer Dave Isay created a national social history project called StoryCorps. It now has the potential to become one of the largest documentary oral history projects ever donated to the Library of Congress.

Dave Isay joined us in our firehouse studio earlier this year and he spoke about the StoryCorps ( http://storycorps.net/ ).

* Dave Isay, award-winning radio producer.

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