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Chance to Tell Tales

The Enterprise | June 5, 2009
St. Mary’s County, MD

“This is our gift to the community,” said Vicki Falcon.

“It’s very moving. When [the person] is talking to someone they care about, it brings out the emotion.”

Cancer Patients and Families Tells Stories of Love, Survival

St. Louis Post-Dispatch | April 16, 2009
St. Louis, Missouri

StoryCorps Door-to-Door visited the Siteman Cancer Center as part of a collaborative project to better understand how parents with cancer discuss the diagnosis with their children.

“It’s a wonderful way to strengthen our bond and say things we hadn’t thought to say before,” Ferrara says. “It’s over now, and she doesn’t have to be scared anymore, so it’ll be a lot easier for us to revisit how it how it really was for the two of us.”

Participants Sought For Local StoryCorps Flood Stories Project

Press Citizen | September 4, 2008
Iowa City, Iowa

“We have a responsibility to preserve the experiences of everyday people who were touched in profound ways by this historic flood,” said Nancy L. Baker, director of UI Libraries. “This project is a perfect way to say ‘Thank you’ to everyone, whether they volunteered to help save books or photos, sand-bagged, helped a neighbor or simply persevered through surviving the flood. Even more important, however, it that this project preserves people’s stories so that future generations will know first-hand what happened during this significant time.”

Oral History Effort Holds Interviews At Enfield Library

Hartford Courant | May 11, 2008
Hartford, Connecticut

[Participant Beth] Devine said she thinks it’s really interesting to see the different values of the generations and how each has approached their lives. “It’s an excellent experience,”

“We’re just really pleased we could get something of this national scope to come to Enfield,” [Library Director Henri] Dutcher said.