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StoryCorps in the North Country
North Country Public Radio has sponsored two North Country visits by StoryCorps. This national oral history project gives everyone the chance to record the stories of family and friends. Participants interview someone they know and love, get a CD to keep, and send a copy to the Library of Congress for future generations. With permission, selections are broadcast on local stations, and on national programs produced by NPR. The StoryCorps mobile recording booth visted Saranac Lake in June 2008 and Glens Falls in July. StoryCorps Interviews from NCPR
Babette and Walter Sonneborn with their niece Ellen Bettmann (left).
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A summer job…a lifelong love. Walter and Babette Sonneborn tell the story of their Adirondack romance to StoryCorps, as broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition.
Natalie Leduc and Mary Woodhouse
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The StoryCorps mobilebooth spent nearly a month here in the North Country this summer. During its time in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls dozens of people got to share their stories by interviewing each other. In late June, Natalie Leduc, of Saranac Lake, visited the booth with her friend Mary Woodhouse. Natalie is a lifelong Adirondacker and a skier almost from birth. And on this opening day of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, we wanted to bring you a bit of her memories of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Games in Lake Placid 28 years ago.
Nancy Fitzpatrick and Tom Gervais
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The StoryCorps mobile booth captured slices of North Country life during almost a month in the region. Thomas Gervais told his wife, Nancy Fitzpatrick, stories of "camp," where West Mill Brook joins the Schroon River near North Hudson. He started spending summers there as a boy in the 1930s. The camp at Pepper Hollow now hosts its fifth generation of the family.
David and Nancy Currier
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The StoryCorps mobilebooth spent nearly a month here in the North Country this summer. During its time in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls dozens of people got to share their stories by interviewing each other. Nancy Currier and her husband David visited the booth in Glens Falls a couple of weeks ago to talk about the unusual way that they met.
Bryan and Lyn Burkett
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The StoryCorps mobilebooth has moved on to western New York after nearly a month here in the North Country. During its time in Saranac Lake and Glens Falls, dozens of people got to share their stories by interviewing each other. Some focused on a number of topics, while others chose to talk about just one thing. This was the case with Lyn Burkett of Potsdam. She was interviewed by her husband, Bryan, and they spent their conversation talking about Lyn’s mother and her very interesting life.
Helen Demong and daughter Katy
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Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones. Recently, Katy Demong from Burlington interviewed her mother, Helen Demong, who is Choral Director at Saranac Lake High School. Under her direction the students perform around the community, and one of these performances was particularly memorable.
Clarence Petty and Phil Brown
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Every day at StoryCorps booths across the country, ordinary people share extraordinary stories with friends and loved ones. Recently, Phil Brown brought legendary Adirondacker Clarence Petty to the StoryCorps booth in Saranac Lake for an interview.
Dermot and "Dew Drop" Morgan are the first Saranac Lake interview
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The StoryCorps booth will also travel to Glens Falls
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The StoryCorps oral history project rolled into Saranac Lake yesterday. The mobile recording studio which is housed in an Airstream trailer offers local people a chance to record their stories and their experiences. The effort is co-sponsored by North Country Public Radio. The recordings will be archived at the Library of Congress and some of the interviews will be aired here on NCPR. Brian Mann was at yesterday's opening ceremony in Saranac Lake and sent this audio postcard.
Randy Kerr and Gordon Allen
Conversation by conversation, interview by interview, StoryCorps is collecting the stories and voices of our time. At permanent StoryCorps booths in New York and mobile booths traveling the country, history is being captured daily. Last summer, when a StoryCorps mobile booth stopped in Watertown, its visitors included Gordon Allen, of Lowville, who interviewed his friend Randy Kerr, a retired forest ranger from Lyons Falls, about his childhood in Lewis County.
Ann and Roger Huntley
For the last few weeks, we've been bringing you excerpts from StoryCorps, a national project that collects the stories of everyday people in order to create an oral history of America. Inside soundproof booths across the country, friends and loved ones are interviewing each other about their lives. One of these mobile recording studios was in Canton last summer and among its visitors were Ann and her husband Roger Huntley. Ann interviewed Roger about growing up in Crary Mills, near Canton, and his life as an auctioneer.
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Even at 87, Kay Wang had a reputation for being strong-willed, something that began when she was a child. "I wasn't very nice" as a little girl, Wang told her son, Cheng, and her granddaughter, Chen. But Wang, who died in April, left a deep mark on her family. The Interview:
At the MobileBooth, people participate in pairs - oftentimes friends or loved ones - and one interviews the other. A trained facilitator guides the participants through the interview process and handles the technical aspects of the recording. At the end of a 40-minute session, the participants walk away with a CD of their interview. With their permission, a second copy will be sent to the American Folklife Center (AFC) at the Library of Congress to become part of a high quality digital archive. This collection will eventually grow into an oral history of America. The project is sponsored by NPR (National Public Radio) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The StoryCorps BlogNewest Posts: |
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