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Natasha Morgan Parker and Dione Morgan

Monday, July 16, 2007
by: Paul Pendergraft

Natasha 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 Pendergraft

Guy 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 Pendergraft

Jacquelyn 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 Pendergraft

Sara 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 Pendergraft

Alvin 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 Pendergraft

Don 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 Pendergraft

Kofi 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 Pendergraft

As 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 Pendergraft

When 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 Pendergraft

Anne 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.