This week I listen to two stories on StoryCorps. The first story was titled “She’s probably the strongest woman you’ll ever meet” Remembering the Mother of Women’s Judo by Jean Kanokogi and Eve Aronoff Trivella. This story was about martial arts champion Rusty Kanokogi and how she fought for women’s right to compete at the… Continue reading StoryCorps Blog Posting – Rachel Eggers
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StoryCorps #1 – William Thompson
This week I listened to two different stories. The first story titled, How One Man Found Purpose in Being a Death Doula, by Michael Rogers, was aired on July 12th, 2024 and is a discussion about death and the acceptance of life before passing on. The second one was a broadcast, Sixty years Later: The… Continue reading StoryCorps #1 – William Thompson
StoryCorps Review
The two stories I listened to were the 2016 story with Julie and Fred Taylor, about a man who writes apology letters to airline customers who experience flight disruptions, and the 2009 story with Nicholas Petron, about his grandfather and the apartment building he owned. The 2016 entry has no interviewer present in the audio;… Continue reading StoryCorps Review
StoryCorps Analysis: Two Very Touching Interviews
The first of the two StoryCorps videos I watched that deeply touched my heart was… If this was to be your very last conversation, is there anything you want to say to me?” (Corona) I found this work to be really emotional and heart-warming as a family member of mine passed away due to disease… Continue reading StoryCorps Analysis: Two Very Touching Interviews
Story Corps- 2 Stories, and the production behind them.
Fischer Plummer “We’re Just Big Guys Dancing!” My first story was about a group of individuals who began dancing for the Dallas Mavericks during a playoff run a few years ago. I loved the way they introduced themselves with their nicknames, it allowed for a very casual introduction to the group of guys talking. As… Continue reading Story Corps- 2 Stories, and the production behind them.
Story Corps – Mary Brown
Ocean and Russell Subiono To achieve something that you’ve chased for years and years and years…I had given up on it. And then it kind of came back and found me again. ” The first StoryCorps I listened to was about a man’s journey with enlisting into the military after being denied the first time.… Continue reading Story Corps – Mary Brown
Story Corps Analysis- Ben Propst
Don “Moses” Lerman “Everybody’s got something in their life they’re good at. This is what I do good. I eat.” In what begins as a lighthearted story, Don Lerman talks about how he won a Matzo Ball eating competition in New York. He says that it was the first trophy ever in his life. The… Continue reading Story Corps Analysis- Ben Propst
A Couple’s Tough Decision & Bartenders’ Fond Memories
Storycorps airs stories that focus on the big and small facets of the human experience. In “A Couple Reflects On The Crossroads of Their Relationship” Tom and JoAn Peters, a couple that met in 1999, do just as the title says; they reflect on a chosen termination of a pregnancy they had early in their… Continue reading A Couple’s Tough Decision & Bartenders’ Fond Memories