Stories in the 'Wisdom' category


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“The door slid aside and there she stood -- the prettiest girl I had ever seen.”

93-year-old Paul Wilson tells his daughter Marty Smith about meeting her mother at the building where he worked in the early 1940s.

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Recorded in partnership with Wichita Public Radio in Wichita, KS

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“I learned from her, and that's why I can pass it on to you guys.”

Richard Anthony Torres talks to his daughter Kathy Namba about his mother, Guadalupe Torres.

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Recorded in partnership with KRZA in Taos, New Mexico

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“I knew the top ten on the radio and I could do my nails, but I didn't even know how to cook.”

Lucille Mascareñas tells her son, Victor, about what happened when she moved from the city to work on her husband's family farm.

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Recorded in partnership with KRZA in Taos, New Mexico

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“There's a Little League baseball field called Brian Calvin Korbon Field.”

Gregg Korbon and his wife, Kathryn, talk about how a baseball field came to be named after their son, Brian.

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Recorded in partnership with WMRA and WVTF in Charlottesville, VA

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“It changed me from the moment my children came onto this earth.”

Michael Cahn talks to his daughter Maya Leonard-Cahn about being a parent.

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Recorded in partnership with KLCC in Eugene, OR

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“We used to put out a hurricane section...”

Retired newspaperman Ed Pierce talks to his grandson, Scott, and his daughter, Rebecca, about working as managing editor of the Miami News.

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Recorded in Gainesville, FL

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“He did all his typing with his two fingers...”

George Edwardson tells his cousin, Doreen Simmonds, about watching his grandfather translate the New Testament into Iñupiaq, their native language.

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Recorded in Anchorage, AK

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“I was eighteen years old, and I had a fake ID...”

PJ Goetz tells her son, Sam, about how she met his father.

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Recorded in Tampa, FL

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“He was a short-order cook...”

Ed Miller (L) tells his son EJ (R) about his father, Ed Miller, Sr.

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Recorded in New York, NY

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“We go around and we bless the hands of all the people who work in the hospital.”

Janet Lutz (R) tells her friend, Lori Armstrong (L), about working as a hospital chaplain.

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Recorded in Atlanta, GA

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