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Natasha Morgan Parker and Dione Morgan
Monday, July 16, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftNatasha Morgan Parker and Dione Morgan are sisters and both moved to Houston with their families after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their hometown. After relocating to Houston, they both got involved in an effort to document and preserve the stories of fellow survivors.
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Guy Weismantel and Christi Gell
Monday, July 9, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftGuy Weismantel has a lot of stories to share and his daughter Christi is a willing inquisitor. This combination made for a lively and entertaining StoryCorps interview. The love and respect between this father and daughter is unmistakable.
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Jacquelyn Ruth
Monday, July 2, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftJacquelyn Ruth lived three blocks from one of the New Orleans levees that failed during Hurricane Katrina. Her home was consumed by flood water, but she and her family survived.
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Sara Wittie Foster and Erna Sue Wittie
Monday, June 25, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftSara and Sue Wittie have fond memories of their "Grammie Ernie". That's what they called Sue's mother and Sara's grandmother. Their loving remembrance in this StoryCorps interview paints a wonderful picture of an interesting and independent woman who lived a full and active life.
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Alvin McFadden
Monday, June 18, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftAlvin McFadden lived his entire life in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. He survived all types of threats, but Hurricane Katrina was different. It changed Alvin's life forever.
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Don Zook
Monday, June 11, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftDon Zook was married for 48 years. He and Katherine had seven children and by all accounts, had a great life together. Katherine recently died of pancreatic cancer. In Don's StoryCorps interview, he paid tribute to the love of his life, a woman he called, "Kitty".
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Kofi and Vicki Fiakpui
Monday, June 4, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftKofi and Vicki Fiakpui are siblings and they, along with other brothers, sisters and family members, lived in New Orleans all their lives. Hurricane Katrina changed that. The storm forced the family to relocate to Houston, but they both have plans to move back to the city they call "home".
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Robert Sones and Amanda Wood
Monday, May 21, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftAs a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam, Robert Sones faced death many times. He was one of the fortunate ones. He came home. In his StoryCorps interview, Robert shares with his daughter Amanda, emotional and white-knuckle details about a rescue mission in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
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Pralay, Pia and Chandra Das
Monday, May 14, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftWhen Pralay Das decided he was ready to marry, he placed a couple of personal ads in a local newspaper in his hometown in India. Among the 500 responses was one from his future wife, Chandra. Their meeting was a topic of interest for their daughter, Pia, during their StoryCorps interview.
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Anne and Theresa Strong
Monday, May 7, 2007
by: Paul PendergraftAnne Strong was born in the historic German city of Steinheim, in 1932. Anne and her family were Roman Catholics, but lived in fear of being sent to the same concentration camps where millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Mrs. Strong says those memories remain vivid today and are powerfully described in her StoryCorps interview with her daughter Theresa.
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StoryCorps, a national initiative to document everyday history and the unique stories of America, spent three weeks in Houston on its tour of the U.S. Dozens of interviews were recorded in the StoryCorps mobile studio, contained in an Airstream trailer, parked at the main entrance of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Each interview will be permanently archived in the Library of Congress. Some of the interviews will be edited for broadcast on NPR and 88.7FM, KUHF-Houston Public Radio.
The Houston visit of StoryCorps is a community based partnership made possible by several organizations including KUHF-Houston Public Radio, the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.
StoryCorps was created by award-winning NPR documentary producer and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Dave Isay. This unprecedented project will travel to every corner of the United States, instructing and inspiring individuals to record their stories in sound. StoryCorps is the largest oral history project ever undertaken, with plans to collect more than 250,000 interviews over the next decade.
StoryCorps opened its first StoryBooth, a freestanding soundproof recording studio, in New York City’s Grand Central Terminal in October 2003 and in June 2005 opened its second StoryBooth at the site of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. Over the course of the ten-year project, StoryCorps plans to open StoryBooths both mobile and stationary across the country.
For more information about StoryCorps, please visit the main site at StoryCorps.net.
A Grandmother's Other Role: Midwife
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400
Graciela Kavulla grew up in Texas near her grandmother, Adelaida. As Graciela recalls, her grandmother was determined to become a midwife. To learn how, a doctor gave her some medical books. But there was a problem: She couldn't read.
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Going From Ex-Con To Lifesaver, For A Friend
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Felix Aponte and Rob Sanchez both served time at New York's Sing Sing penitentiary. They met after they were released, and became fast friends. And when Sanchez was diagnosed with an aggressive form of kidney disease, Aponte stepped up.
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Teacher Takes In A Teen, And Gains A Family
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Just before he became a father, Colbert Williams left home — his family was too poor to take care of him. Last week, we heard Williams and his son discuss their strong bond. Now, in a "prequel" of sorts, Williams speaks with the man who took him in as a teenager — his math teacher Ralph Catania.
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A Boy Raises A Man — And Becomes One Himself
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Colbert Williams was just 16 when he became a father. He raised his son as a single dad. Now Colbert is 30, and his son, Nathan, is a teenager himself. Recently the pair talked about raising children
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Doctor Learns A Lesson In Care From 6-Year-Old
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer has been practicing medicine for more than 25 years — and he's devoted most of that time to helping Miami's poor and homeless. Greer has spoken to presidents about poverty and health care. But he says a chat with a young boy taught him a lesson about caring for people.
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Finding Love, And Gaining A Granddaughter
Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0500
M.J. Seide met her partner, Marty Jacobson, in the early 1990s. She became part of Marty's family and is especially close to her 12-year-old granddaughter, Genna Alperin, with whom she visited StoryCorps recently.
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