StoryCorps

Gold!

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Medford, Oregon on October 20, 2005.

Jacksonville, OR is a small town near Medford, where the booth is parked. You can see remnants of its history as a busy gold mining community.

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Blue Skies

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Medford, Oregon on .

The western mobilebooth travels to southern Oregon. We got a bird’s eye view of the landscape from Table Rock.

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net October 20, 2005 No Comments

Mobilebooth West meets Coffee-in-Motion

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Portland, Oregon on October 19, 2005.

We enjoy running into fellow mobilers.

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StoryCorps goes to the Oregon State Penitentiary

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Portland, Oregon on October 18, 2005.

We spent a day recording the stories of inmates at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

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On the road out of Portland…

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Portland, Oregon on October 17, 2005.

The mobilebooth team couldn’t resist stopping at Burgerville for huckleberry milkshakes. Only in Oregon!

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Mempho, Tenno!

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Memphis, Tennessee on October 14, 2005.

Here in Memphis, TN we’re parked downtown on South Main Street. Beautiful old trolleys clang past the booth every five minutes or so: Memphis’ (semi) rapid transit system.

Right across the street is the Center for Southern Folklore, a wonderful organization devoted to documenting and preserving Southern folk art, music and traditions. Above, Facilitators Maisie Tivnan and Nick Yulman hang with the Center’s Executive Producer, and Queen Bee, Judy Peiser. There could be no finer guide to the city or partner-in-crime in collecting its stories. Judy and her amazing staff operate on the principle that everyone is a king and the Center celebrates such small wonders as handmade quilts, peach cobbler and a farmer who taught his hogs to say grace.

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A hello and a fare thee well

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Memphis, Tennessee on October 13, 2005.

It is the end of the tour for Facilitator Rani Shankar, pictured here with cofacilitator Nick Yulman. She’ll return home to Brooklyn, NY and continue to facilitate at StoryCorps’ New York Booths.

Rani passes the microphone to new East Booth Faciltator Maisie Tivnan.

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

Camp W.O.W. – from New Orleans to Murray, KY

Posted by webmaster@storycorps.net in Murray, Kentucky on October 10, 2005.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, private citizens in Murray, KY organized a rescue mission. Volunteers went down to New Orleans in school buses and brought people camped outside the Convention Center back to Murray. The town’s Woodsmen of the World Camp became the base of operations, serving as temporary housing and a resource center. StoryCorps Facilitators Rani Shankar and Nick Yulman had breakfast at the camp and spoke with evacuees about their experiences.

Above, Karen, who had stopped by the booth earlier in the week, gives an update on how her family’s doing. She, like many who came to the camp, had no idea where she was going when she boarded the bus but has decided to settle in Murray because she has been so impressed by the kindness and generosity of the town’s citizens.

Gigi, a hair stylist from New Orleans, tells her story and explains that she’s been doing people’s hair at the camp as a form of meditation.

We also visited the homes of some people who have found places to live in Murray through the camp.
Above, Cherry and her dog Whoopie, who came with her on the bus from New Orleans, pose in front of their new house with Camp W.O.W. director Colleen. "We’re family now," Cherry explained.

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