StoryCorps

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StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.

Series

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584 Pieces

Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones.


Pieces

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Gloria Del Bianco and her nephew, Lou, remember her father, Luigi Del Bianco, one of the chief stone carvers of Mt. Rushmore.

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2
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88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WDBM, WVBI-LP, WEZU, KUER and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 10
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Gweneviere Mann talks to her boyfriend, Yasir Salem, about living without a short-term memory. Her condition results from a stroke she suffered dur...

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 2
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John Klein remembers meeting the love of his life, Mary Ann Allen, with her daughter Bernice Flournoy.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WEZU, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Mary Morris remembers her husband, Thomas, one of two Washington D.C. postal workers who died from exposure to anthrax in October, 2001.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Harvey Sherman remembers October 3, 1951, when the Brooklyn Dodgers lost the pennant on a home run known as the "shot heard 'round the world."

Bought by WEZU and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Earl Reynolds Jr. tells his daughter, Ashley, about meeting James Brown at his father's barbershop in Roanoke, Virginia.

Bought by Radio Catskill, WEZU, Delta College Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Sep 28, 2011
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 4
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72-year-old Ellaraino tells her friend Baki AnNur about meeting her great-grandmother for the first time.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 27, 2011
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
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Father Michael Duffy remembers his friend, Father Mychal Judge, the first official victim of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Former NYPD lieutenant Bill Cosgrove remembers carrying Father Mychal Judge, the first official victim of September 11th, out of the World Trade Ce...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:01
  • Purchases: 1