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StoryCorps MobileBooth outside of Las Vegas

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 3, 2005.

The western MobileBooth is parked at The District in Henderson, Nevada. There’s more than gambling happening in Las Vegas!

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net December 3, 2005 No Comments

Eliza kisses the western mobilebooth goodbye

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 2, 2005.

Eliza Bettinger, StoryCorps mobilebooth advance coordinator, hugs the west booth one last time, as she will work with the east booth in 2006.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net December 2, 2005 2 Comments

Gulfport, MS and Hurricane Katrina

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Gulfport, Mississippi on December 1, 2005.

We weren’t sure what to expect when we pulled into Gulfport, MS. Three months after Hurricane Katrina tore through the Mississippi Gulf Coast, destroying 90 miles of coastline, it was hard to imagine what kind of stop this would be for StoryCorps. Would people be ready to talk about their experiences? And if they were, would they be willing to find the time in their already upside down lives to come share their stories? Fortunately, it seems like there is a real desire among these Mississipians to put on the record exactly what happened here and how it’s changed their lives.

Mississippi Public Broadcasting has made it possible for us to set up in the parking lot of the Prime Outlets mall at the intersection of two major roads. It’s important that we are located in a place that is easy for people to access. Many of the roads are still closed and those that are still open are often without street signs or clogged with traffic. Above, highway 90, the major coastal highway, is completely closed.

While so much has changed on the Gulf, the sunsets are still beautiful. But even bathed in pink light, the bulldozer on the beach and the scattered remnants of a pier are reminders of how much has changed here.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net December 1, 2005 No Comments

Mobilebooth searches for an oasis

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Las Vegas, Nevada on .

The western mobilebooth passed through the Mojave desert en route to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net December 1, 2005 No Comments

Golden Gate Bridge

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in San Francisco, California on November 26, 2005.

StoryCorps facilitator Karen DiMattia walked off Thanksgiving dinner down by the Golden Gate Bridge.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net November 26, 2005 No Comments

Gordo, AL: masks, miscellanea & moveable type

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on November 16, 2005.

This morning we visited StoryCorps participant Glenn House and his wife Kathleen at their gallery and studio in Gordo, Alabama. It was once a Napa Auto Parts shop and they’ve kept the old sign up, simply painting over everything but "A-R-T" in the word "Parts". Among many other things, Glenn makes clay masks which he claims are self portraits. Above, he demonstrates the likeness.

Glenn’s mother ran a curious establishment in Gordo called Ma ‘Cille’s Museum of Miscellanea. A compulsive collector, she exhibited a variety of unusual things including taxidermist road-kill, a whiskey still operated by Manequins and a jar containing her chewed gum collection. Ma ‘Cille has passed and the museum is no more but Glenn still has remnants of his mother’s collection lying around his studio including these doll parts which she used to dig up.

Across the street is a building that Glenn and Kathleen are currently setting up to be a type-shop, paper making facility and community book arts center. Above Facilitator Nick Yulman receives a lesson on operating one of their antique letter presses.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net November 16, 2005 4 Comments

San Francisco booth locale

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in San Francisco, California on November 13, 2005.

The mobilebooth is situated outside of Zeum, a non-profit and community-based museum that is creative fun for all ages. We’re right around the corner from the Yerba Buena Gardens, and next to a carousel!

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net November 13, 2005 2 Comments

The Big Game

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on November 12, 2005.

It quickly became clear that a stay in Tuscaloosa, AL wouldn’t be complete without a University of Alabama football game. Thanks to the generosity of Linda and David Ford, facilitators Maisie Tivnan and Nick Yulman found themselves in the end zone at one of Alabama’s biggest games of the year: the stand off between the Crimson Tide and Louisiana State University. Four hours and four hot dogs later, Alabama lost the game in overtime and we straggled out of the stadium with 60,000 other fans, exhausted, hoarse from all the screaming and a little bit deaf.

The tailgating celebrations offered as much entertainment as the game itself. After capturing the sounds of Alabama’s "Million Dollar Band" practicing on the quad before the game, facilitator Nick Yulman found some LSU fans to provide us with a colorful sampling of pre-game trash-talking.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net November 12, 2005 No Comments

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