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

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Blues legend Sugar Pie DeSanto came to StoryCorps with Jim Moore, her manager of 50 years, to talk about her start on the stage and her legacy.

  • Added: May 06, 2024
  • Length: 02:53
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Marine Staff Sergeant Nick Bennett and Sergeant Major Dan Miller remember a deployment during the Iraq War that changed their lives.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
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In 1959, as a senior in college, Albert Jose Jones founded the first Black Scuba Diving Club in the U.S. Since then Albert and his fellow divers ha...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
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When Deborah Wei and her family moved to the Philadelphia suburbs in the 1960’s, they were the only Asian family in their neighborhood. Deborah rem...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2024
  • Length: 02:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Karina Borgia-Lacroix and her son, Levi Lacroix, remember a frightening accident that happened when he was a toddler.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Judd Esty-Kendall tells his son, also named Jud, about his father, Henry Kendall and the special bond he developed with a full-blooded wolf named P...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
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Father Gerry Kleba and Reverend Lauren Bennett forged an unlikely friendship through their experience offering spiritual support in Missouri’s exec...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and KALW


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
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Kanard Lewis speaks with his former youth baseball coach, Ed Holley, about the turning point in their relationship and how Ed became more than just...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Qaiyaan Harcharek and Don Rearden pose with fossilized mammoth ivory in Utqiagvik, AK on July 10, 2018, Credit: By Joe Yelverton
Friends Don Rearden and Qaiyaan Harcharek talk about suicides in their Alaskan communities and a moment that bonded them together.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio


  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Roger Mayo and Jim Neal at their StoryCorps interview in Portland on November 4, 2023., Credit: By Black Owl Studio for StoryCorps.
Former romantic partners Jim Neal and Roger Mayo remember Drop Me A Line, a shop they used to operate in Portland, Maine. The tiny card and gift sh...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:57