StoryCorps returns to the nation’s capital after one year of touring the country. For the record, Justina Mejias takes a picture of her reflection and that of her co-facilitator Nadja Middleton! Their image is reflected on StoryCorps’ airstream trailer parked in front of the Library of Congress (also in the picture). The Library’s American Folklife Center is archiving the stories facilitators have been collecting around the country. Below, Nadja listens to Marcia K. Segal, the Center’s processing archivist, explain how StoryCorps recordings are processed. By the end of the year, the Library plans to make available to the public a portion of the 7000 interviews StoryCorps has collected thus far.
Big Launch
The whole StoryCorps gang from New York came down to DC to our big
launch party. Here?s Matt, the mobile booth manager getting down slo-mo.
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Washington D.C. is Paradise to me!
We’re here! We’ve done it! We pulled up to Constitution Ave. at 6:30
pm, passed through a gigantic crane sized x-ray machine, and ascended
Capitol hill. Tomorrow we launch our mobile tour from the steps of the
Library of Congress. – Brett Myers
Marion and Dave
StoryCorps fearless leaders, Marion Kahan and David Isay, stand by as we pull the two Mobile Booths into the Library of Congress Plaza.
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Second Day on the Road
We left New York yesterday en route to College Park, Maryland. This is the view from our hotel room this morning.
We pulled into Appalshop, the amazing documentary organization in
Whitesburg, Kentucky. That evening, it snowed.
We hitched the MobileBooth to our truck, then headed for Whitesburg, Kentucky. It was a long trip (over 330 miles), and we stopped for gas many times along the way.
The MobileBooth was pulled out of the factory by tractor just before sunset. We all cheered.
