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.
