I believe the hardest part of this post was to decide on which incredibly inspirational stories I wanted to listen to. The two stories I decided to listen to were: Two Park Rangers Recall Being the First to Clean Mt. Rushmore (Blaine Kortemeyer and Donald Hart) and The Plumber’s Kids: A Business That Shaped Them and Their Community (Cathy Lane and Eddie Estes).
The first one was about the two Park Rangers recalling everything about the privilege they had to be the first to help clean Mount Rushmore (the interviewer’s voice was not present, just those being interviewed). Overall, all the cuts and audio were very smooth. It starts off immediately with the process of what they had to bring to clean it, how it was like being that high up in the air, and then starts to get humorous. For example, they talked about how they found a quarter on top of Lincoln and then moved it to Jefferson’s eye ( and then how one of them kissed Jefferson). Then it gets all inspirational again with how cool this experience was. They wrapped up the interview with an outro of “happy and fun” music.
In the second StoryCorps story I listened to, The Plumber’s Kids: A Business That Shaped Them and Their Community, it gave two perspectives of their father being a plumber. It first started off with the two siblings talking to the interviewer separately about their father being a plumber (one sentence to draw people into the story), and then they were brought together recalling memories and laughing. Following that, they both gave their own stories with what they saw in their father and how inspirational he was. This one also ended with music fading out.
There was only really one big difference between these two stories, it was the way they pieced the interviews together. In the first it was truly just one flowing piece, while the second cut back in forth.