Jim Crane and his daughter Missy Worden
Jim Crane tells his daughter Missy Worden what he liked best about college.
Originally aired December 17, 2010 on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Judge Berryl Anderson and Virginia Anderson
Judge Berryl Anderson and her mother, Virginia Anderson, came to StoryCorps in Atlanta to talk about what Berryl was like as a child. As it turns out, she was the family troublemaker.
The day they recorded this conversation, Berryl was sworn in as the Chief Magistrate Judge in DeKalb County, Georgia.
Originally aired September 17, 2010 on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Frank Lynch and Antonio Douglas
Frank Lynch, owner of the Cactus Car Wash, talks with his friend and regional manager, Antonio Douglas, about Frank’s concerns over Antonio’s high weight. Eventually Frank, 70, challenged the younger man to a foot race beating him the first time they ran, but following a year of training, Antonio, 45, emerged victorious the next time they ran.
Originally aired January 1, 2010, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Sam Reed
Sam Reed is a mortician whose interest in the funeral business began when he was a child. For more than a decade, has also been the caretaker at Atlanta’s historic Oakland Cemetery. At StoryCorps he discusses the many reasons he loves his job.
Originally aired November 6, 2009, on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Chloe Smith and Willie Jefferson
Chloe Smith talks with Willie Jefferson about the 23 years he has worked as a custodian at Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic School, and some of his impressions of her.
Originally aired October 23, 2009, 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.
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.
Murray Brown and Kerrie Cotton Williams
Omar Leech
Omar Leech remembers his first exposure to gang life as a young man in Toledo, Ohio. Leech passed away in 2007 in a car accident in Atlanta. He recorded this interview there just three weeks earlier.
Originally aired May 29, 2007 on NPR’s News & Notes.
Jim McFarland
Jim McFarland recalls traveling with his grandmother from his home in New York City to the segregated South during the summers when he was a young boy. While he found some aspects of the South interesting, it wasn’t until he was 11 years old until he understood racism.
Originally aired May 15, 2007, on NPR’s News & Notes.