Doreen Simmonds and George Edwardson

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

Originally aired March 13, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Ed Miller and EJ Miller

Ed Miller talks with his son EJ about the lessons he learned and the advice he received from his own “Pop,” and offers EJ some of his own advice about becoming a father and raising children.

Originally aired January 23, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Sister Mary DeSalles Collins

Sister Mary DeSalles Collins recalls an early morning trip to a bar she once made to ensure that a child she was attempting to place with an adoptive family had a new home for Christmas.

Originally aired December 26, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Lori Armstrong and Janet Lutz

Janet Lutz (right) is a hospital chaplain who blesses the hands of the people who work there. She tells her friend Lori Armstrong (left) about coming across another hospital employee—a woman who prepare the surgical instruments—who prays for each of the patients going into surgery.

Originally aired December 19, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Ledo Lucietto and Anne Lucietto

Ledo Lucietto and his daughter Anne talk about their shared passion for mechanical engineering that has been passed down through generations and discuss when Ledo first knew that Anne would become an engineer.

Originally aired December 12, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Barbara Cooper and Jody Houston

Barbara Cooper (left) and her mother, Jody Houston, talk about Barbara living with a rare genetic condition called progeria, which speeds up her body’s aging process. While most people with progeria do not live past 13, at the time of their interview, Barbara was 31 years old.

Originally aired December 5, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Mike Kilgore

Mike Kilgore remembers his grandmother, Sara Louisa Matilda Elizabeth Nowles, who played a large role in his upbringing and helped him stay out of trouble while teaching him about life.

Originally aired November 21, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Studs Terkel

Legendary oral historian Studs Terkel was a lover of the human voice. He shares a story about an experience he had at an airport searching for, and later finding, the “vox humana.”

Originally aired November 7, 2008, on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Angie Kardashian

For decades, Angie Kardashian ran an Italian restaurant in California. But after September 11, 2001, everything changed. While watching news coverage of the rescue effort at Ground Zero, she felt called to help.

Angie sold her restaurant, moved to New York City, and starting contributing in the best way she knew how: cooking for firefighters. Angie thought she’d stay for a few months, but those months turned into years. In the two years that followed, Angie cooked for more than one hundred FDNY companies.

She came to StoryCorps to remember her experience.

Recorded March 4, 2008.

William and Kimberly Weaver

Lynn Weaver talks with his daughter, Kimberly, about his father, Ted Weaver, who worked as a janitor and chauffeur in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Weaver was Chairman of Surgery at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta when this interview was recorded in 2007.

Dr. William Lynn Weaver died in May 2019.

Originally aired April 13, 2007 on NPR’s Morning Edition.