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| StoryCorps in Cincinnati
Sponsored by The Otto M Budig Family Foundation and The Communicating Arts Credit Union
StoryCorps Special Program
David Isay’s vision of capturing oral histories from all walks of American life is coming true, one interview at a time. 91.7 WVXU is proud to have StoryCorps at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
 In celebration, this special examines the project and provides poignant and provocative moments from a few of the 16,000 interviews that have been conducted.
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 On May 15, Cincinnati welcomed StoryCorps, a national initiative to instruct and inspire ordinary Americans to record meaningful oral histories with family members and friends. The StoryCorps mobile recording booth spent a month at the Cincinnati Museum Center, in conjunction with their 75th anniversary celebration of Union Terminal.
StoryCorps is the spiritual heir to the documentary projects created under the W.P.A. more than half a century ago, which remains today—despite only lasting for four years—the most important social documentary archive ever created. "StoryCorps is a manifestation of the 15-year mission of Sound Portraits Productions to tell the stories of ordinary Americans with dignity, celebrating the power and poetry in their words," creator David Isay said. "We believe that StoryCorps will engage communities, teach participants to become better listeners, foster intergenerational communication, and help Americans appreciate the strength in the stories of everyday people they find all around them." StoryCorps was also featured on the March 23rd edition of WVXU's Cincinnati Edition program.
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Terry Scott from StoryCorps
91.7 WVXU's News Director Maryanne Zeleznik talks with Terry Scott, Senior Coordinator for StoryCorps Mobile about StoryCorps and how people can take part in this project. |
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StoryCorps places soundproof booths across the country where Americans can bring older relatives—or other loved ones—to conduct broadcast-quality oral history interviews with the guidance of a trained facilitator. At the booth, the facilitator will help create a question list, and handle all of the technical aspects of the recording. At the end of the forty-minute session, the participants will walk away with a CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy will become part of the archive housed at the Library of Congress. The archive at the Library of Congress will enable families for generations to come to have access to their stories in a high-quality digital format. A third copy will be placed in the archives of the Cincinnati Historical Society at the Museum Center.
The mission of StoryCorps is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening. We accomplish this by providing access both to the StoryCorps interview experience and to the content that emerges from these interviews.
StoryCorps reminds us of the importance of listening to and learning from those around us. It celebrates our shared humanity. It tells people that their lives matter and they won’t be forgotten. Through StoryCorps, we hope to create a kinder, more thoughtful and compassionate nation.
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