This special podcast features Detroiters' stories of love - from finding that special someone at a Tiger's game, to making a marriage work for fifty years - recorded in the StoryCorps MobileBooth during its visit to Detroit.
America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Alan and Ronald Amen. The brothers share their stories on how they learned activism from their mother who sued and won a victory over the City of Dearborn’s deceptive urban renewal practices in the southeast section of the city during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from three brothers: Chuck, Haider and Eide Alawan. They talk about working in their father’s grocery store in the 1940s and 1950s and some culture clashes that took place in the west side Detroit neighborhood.
America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Marsha Music. She tells of her father, Joe Von Battle – a record store owner and producer who recorded Detroit music luminaries such as John Lee Hooker, the Reverend C.L. Franklin and Aretha Franklin in their early years. Music says segregation and urban renewal not only destroyed her father’s business but helped create the conditions that sparked the events of 1967.
America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Lila and Suehaila Amen. Lila shares stories of how her daughter started wearing the hijab - a head scarf worn traditionally by many Muslim women.
America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. Story Corps was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park – Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today’s story comes from Max Elliott and his mother, Kirstan. They talk about Max’s cerebral palsy, growing up and dealing with the public.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn - today and tomorrow. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Jessie Carlisle and Freddie Simmons. Their story was recorded when the mobile booth was in front of the Carr Center in Detroit's Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. The sisters grew up in Kentucky during segregation and talk about life and lessons learned from the Jim Crow South. Please note: a derogatory word used in the story that may be offensive to some people.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Marcia Berkow. She tells her son, Joshua, about how her father survived imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, how she was born in a displaced persons camp and her arrival in America after World War Two.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Shaka Senghor and his fiancée, Ebony Roberts. Senghor is a community activist and writer. His life experience includes serving time for violent crime in his youth. Senghor talks about meeting his future wife while in prison and how Roberts reminded him of a black activist he admired.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Alexander Zull. He talks to his friend, Mary Ann Ruberg, about life with Asperger’s syndrome.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Ivory Williams. He tells his friend and colleague, Aurelia Foster, about his grandmother and a family heirloom called "the lickin’ stick”.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Margaret Gordon. She tells her daughter, Pamela, about how she agreed to marry her husband, Charles, after they had not seen each other for five years, and the lessons she learned from her almost 50 years of marriage.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Zahra Yousuf. She tells her daughter, Sara, about her marriage to a fellow doctor and how she pawned her valuables in order to leave Pakistan with the hope of attaining a better life in America.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Elena Herrada. She talks to her daughter, Elisa Gurulé, about her Grandfather, Santos, and the impact he had on her life.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Linda Colbert. She talks to her daughter, Eboné Colbert-Taylor. Linda Colbert about being a single mother and the joys raising her daughter, Eboné.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Anica Srbinovich who tells her daughter, WDET's Digital Director Michelle Srbinovich, about her early life growing up in the former Yugoslavia and moving to Detroit.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Estelle Rzadkowolski. She talks to her granddaughter, Madelyn, about how her father came up with creative ways of making a living during the Great Depression in Detroit.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Cynthia Vecera. She says as a child she grew up in an abusive home with an alcoholic father and worked hard to overcome her past. Vecera shares her thoughts on motherhood and her hopes for her son, Sam.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Daniel Carlisle, best known by his stage name Hush. Over the past 20 years, he’s worked with local hip-hop notables such as Royce da 5'9", Slum Village and Eminem. Carlisle talks with his friend David Rudolph about how his mother, who recently passed away, was always proud of his work on stage and in Detroit.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. Today’s story comes from Julie Abad who chats with her son, Andrew.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from WDET reporter Rob St. Mary who shares the memory and impact of his school friend, Keith, on his life.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from legendary jazz musician Marcus Belgrave who talks to his wife, Joan, about the Jazz Development Workshop, a mentoring program he created for local youth starting in the 1970s.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from legendary jazz musician Marcus Belgrave who talks to his wife, Joan, about how he decided to move to Detroit 50 years ago.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. StoryCorps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from former Ford executive and current Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour. He spoke to his Chief of Staff, Michael Wright, about coming out as gay later in life. Gilmour’s story was recorded here last week.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. StoryCorps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from former Ford executive and current Wayne State University President Allan Gilmour. He spoke to his Chief of Staff, Michael Wright, about lessons he's learned related to failure and work. Gilmour’s story was recorded in Detroit, last week.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. StoryCorps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Jim Hoogstra and his partner, Clark Heath, sharing how they met and fell in love. Their story was recorded here in Detroit, last week.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Patricia Montemurri and her husband, Paul Diehl, and was recorded here last week. The Detroit Free Press reporter shares how the 1984 world series, deceptive sources and humor brought them together.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from William Jacobs who tells his grandson, Seth, about an unexpected visit from his fiancee's mother.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Andrew DeVries who remembers the impact that a hospital worker’s support had on his recovery from a serious motorcycle accident.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Nathan Williams who interviews his father, Colbert, about being a single parent.
StoryCorps is in Detroit now through August 11th. Watch the MobileBooth's arrival in town and learn more about how you can make your reservation today!
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Larry Young who tells his friend Clyde Cleveland about trying to register for college in the early 1940s.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Nzingha Masani who tells her friend, Noah Hairston, about receiving her name at an African naming ceremony.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Yvonne Logan Jones and her sister Ola Mae Logan Allen. They remembered their parents, who migrated north to Detroit in the 1940s.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps' mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Jerry Johnson interviews his mother, Carrie Conley, about raising six children as a single mother.
America’s largest oral history project is in Metro Detroit, now through August 11th. Story Corps’ mobile booth is located in front of the Carr Center in Detroit’s Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district. They are seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Leon May, who fought as a Marine in World War Two. He tells his daughter about leaving for basic training.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Debra Goodman who interviews her friend Ed Trinka, a doorman at New York’s Plaza Hotel since 1963.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Lendall Hill who tells his daughter, Lori FitzGerald, about his father's artificial leg.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Ramón Sanchez remembers how teachers changed the names of Mexican-American students during the 1950s.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Priya Morganstern and Bhavani Jaroff who interview their father, Ken Morganstern, who is dealing with Alzheimer's disease.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Judge Joe Pigott who tells his wife, Lorraine, about Willie Earl "Pip" Dow, a man he sentenced many times. His story was recorded in Jackson, Mississippi.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make your free reservations now. Today’s story comes from Danny and Annie Perasa. The Brooklyn couple remembers their first date in an interview recorded in 2004 in New York.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from James Ransom and Cherie Johnson remember their neighbor and Sunday school teacher.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. Story Corps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Jenny Francis and Rebecca Fuller. They remember their brother, First Lieutenant Travis Fuller, who was killed in Iraq.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from retired Memphis sanitation worker Taylor Rogers and his wife, Bessie, who remember Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech.
America’s largest oral history project comes to Metro Detroit next week. StoryCorps is seeking your true stories of life and love. You can learn more and make reservations now. Today’s story comes from Sarah and, her son, Joshua Littman. Joshua is in college and deals with Asperger’s syndrome. The story was recorded at a StoryCorps mobile booth in New York City, last year.
Cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson recall their fearsome Sunday school teacher, Miss Lizzie Devine, the only woman who had more power than their grandmother. Set in the small Florida town of the cousins' memories, this animation resounds with the joy of sharing stories with family.
Hector Black remembers the murder of his daughter, Patricia Nuckles, by an intruder in her home.
Watch this beautifully animated StoryCorps video about a Cincinnati public school system janitor and his lasting legacy, as told through a conversation between his son Samuel and his wife Edda. Then learn about StoryCorps' upcoming visit to Detroit!
StoryCorps is coming to Detroit and Craig talks to Rose Kue who will coordinates the visit of the famed StoryCorps MobileBooth.
StoryCorps Founder David Isay visits to discuss this important new form of journalism that travels to people and gives them a platform to tell their story. StoryCorps will be coming to Detroit this year.